T-Mobile Android myTouch Commercial Helps Sell iPhone Apps
TechCrunch is reporting that sales of the iPhone app iFog [$0.99 - iTunes link] have shot up following a T-Mobile commercial for the myTouch (their rebranded Google Android Magic, which in no way is meant to glom any mind share from i(Pod) touch), where Saturday Night Live alum, Dana Carvey demonstrates a similar Android app.
Given Apple’s much vaunted 85,000+ apps, it’s interesting to see that iPhone owners will look to the App Store, rather than competing platforms, even when competitors show off apps. Congrats to the developers for the boom-by-proxy.
Maybe Carvey should have shown off Google Voice?
October 24th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Hahaha that’s funny
October 24th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Ooooh, it has Google! LOL
October 24th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
LOL thats funny
October 24th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
wow — is there an app to get lost data back???
October 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
The song in that commercial is so damn catchy. I find myself singing it sometimes
October 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
^lol
October 24th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
What did you really mean to say?
Because what you did say makes no sense at all.
Why would an iphone owner run out to T-Mobile to buy a new phone for a useless app when all they had to do was search the App Store?
October 24th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I went to a T-Mobile store to see one. Can hold it, but doesn’t work. You can’t actually use it. Only look at it nit working.
October 25th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Haha that’s how I got that app.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Really, I would rather be much more proud of good developers. I know this a iPhone fan site but why glorify poorly thought of apps. Glorify real developers l, developers who put thought into their apps, who know what the iPhone is capable of doing. Apps like samule, tap fu, reddit, midomi, and yes google maps! Why because google does make a good product. I use google maps on my iPhone all the time. Think in the long run you can thank google for setting a new standard. Wouldn’t you like to have an different UI something more social? Or more options on the keyboard, more options on the copy paste menu, more options when it come down to safari file support, or more options on email attachments, giving third party ability to innovate useful products like headphones with volume, track options(next, pause, play rewind, volume up or down) this is a monopoly where it’s controlled by you the fan and until you start saying hey wait google has something here we will be using the same OS. Copy paste for example how long did that take but you have it now.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am
“G” the ‘with google’ means the operating system is made by Google, you know, GOOGLE ANDROID.
Not that it has Google, moron.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am
@rudy fyi – apple wrote the google maps app ..
October 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
its 90.000 apps Rene
October 25th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Is this supposed to be some new phenomena? The same thing will happen when T-Mobile users see apps on iPhone commercials… and will always happen in advertising.
Person sees Little Caesars commercial, person drools, person runs to Dominos because it’s just down the street.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:07 am
12, how could apple have written GOOGLE maps? What a dumbass…
October 25th, 2009 at 10:12 am
^Uh, last time I checked, Apple DID make the google maps app. They USED the APIs of google maps, buy the app is theirs. That’s like saying Twitteriffic was made my Twitter. Dumbass….
October 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Ya…apple wrote the map app. They have stated it often….u lose.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Orly?
Is this one of those things where Apple doesn’t really trust Google, so they made the app themselves?
October 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
@Jim:
The maps app is a thin Safari wrapper around standard Google Maps web APIs. Apple did nothing special here.
The wrapper is so thin that when Google introduces new features they automatically get added to the Maps App even when Apple might not want the.
Case in point:
Google added crowd sourced traffic for urban streets. It appeared in maps app instantly.
Google added selective Advertising, and it shows up in maps app.
Google JUST TODAY turned on new look and feel: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/evolving-look-of-google-maps.html and its already in the Maps app.
Google controls map content. Apple just shows the web image that google ships. Apple is unable to control content and is completely at Apple’s mercy.
(Which may be why Apple is buying Mapping companies, in a hopeless attempt to drop google maps).
If you knew anything about the google maps api, you would understand that Apple did next to nothing. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html
October 25th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@icebike FWIW Apple listed Google Maps adds as a “feature” in iPhone 3.1.
Apple built a client for the Google Maps tiles and API’s, though i think it’s closer to a rich native client than just a wrapper. A widget of sorts is probably close.
Apple believes in UI and that’s where they spent their time “writing”. If you listen to Jobs talk in the interview with Gates at D a few years back he talks about the iPhone Maps app specifically.
October 25th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
What? This is madness!
October 25th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Not a big surprise – it works both ways. I’m an Android user and I see all kinds of cool apps in iPhone commercials, then I download the Android version.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Ha! Like all those celebrities use that **** phone!
October 25th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
“Crapp” Phone = Google Phone
October 25th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@ hand me the gun ,
oh really humm well then when google splits from iPhone g map I’m guess your going to provide the map sources etc etc. Dumb ***
October 26th, 2009 at 11:11 am
How did this become a discussion on who created google maps?
October 27th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Exactly I meant to make a point of all the other developers that spent countless hours or good thought into an app. The mentioned app my touch is “selling” ranks down there with the **** apps.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
when i in college, i remember learning about a study that showed whenever an ad uses the “we’re better than this one” technique, both products get boosted, and sometimes the one they’re knocking gets the biggest boost. especially if it’s already #1.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
What is with all the whining and crying and “mine is better than yours” BS. Come on – I am a fan of anything innovative whether it be on an iPhone or Android or whatever. Not one is perfect and never will be, the competition is good and fuels better developement. So many children here behaving more immature than my 8 year old daughter ever has. What the hell has this world become. Share, Respect and Learn people.