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Joe Hewitt, ex-Facebook iphone app creator, on the App Store app discovery [video]

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Joe has created one of the most popular iPhone app. He just decided not to pursue this app because he's against Apple app review process and approach. Fine. Someone else is taking the lead. It is probably a big deal for a complex app like Facebook. I am sure Apple will improve it over time.

But in this video interview at the very end (jump to 8min) he says something highly interesting about the App discovery issue.

"I hope Apple is goingt to come with some solution for app discovery. If not Apple then some sort of third party infrastructure..."

Joe [smile!] welcome to Appsfire

In case you were asking Facebook on the iPhone has 17m monthly active users

That's 1/3 iPhone/iPod owners! 

Oh they have 8 million daily active. Curious to know the equivalent for Twitter given our research 

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Twitter wins big time in usage on Facebook from the iPhone

A little update on our research. We issued a poll to understand if you guys are using more twitter or facebook from the iPhone. So far a little more than 700 respondents have participated.

The result is crystal clear: iPhone owners use more Twitter than Facebook on Their iPhone: 69% are using either more Twitter or only Twitter.

This is of course a small sample (although 700 answers start to have some meaning). What would be really interesting, would be the actually aggregated data usage for both services provided by ATT (or any national operator in deal with Apple). They probably know a lot more... 

update 24/09/09: we passed the 1000 respondents. The trend is the same. One reader added a smart comment: since Twitter status can be synced with Facebook or some apps enable double publishing the Twitter usage and Facebook usage could be correlated but the prime access goes to Twitter

The iPhone losing market share as a Camera phone? Maybe it's just Flickr

The NextWeb observes that the iPhone is losing dramatic market share in Flickr. The problem is unlikely to be due to the iPhone however. 


The number of iPhones is still growing fast. However a few things are affecting the number of pictures uploaded to flickr. Namely Facebook and Twitter. And maybe...Youtube

  • The new Facebook app is better built for picture shooting and uploading. I am sure a large numbers of iPhone users have started to switch their usage pattern to Facebook
  • Most Twitter app now integrate picture shooting: 100% of those pictures are not going to Flickr but to services like Twitpic or Yfrog. I believe there is a strong overlap of users uploading to Flickr and using Twitter. Although i don't have the exact details. What we know though is that Twitpic is gaining momentum in audience vs Flickr (See google trends here)

  • Finally the new iPhone 3Gs gives a new alternative to picture shooting: video recording. Many users will prefer in a few cases shoot a video...and upload it to YouTube.
Soon Flickr will aggregate iPod nano now able to shoot pictures. I anticipate that added to the iPhone "Apple Market Share" will recover and maybe will get even bigger

ps: one reason i put aside..flickr could also have some issues in their own data backlog...but it is unlikely and still the reasons above would make sense