Who gives an app?
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The human species has been around for ages. We went through the Stone Age, the Ice Age, the Bronze and Iron Ages, The Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Machine Age, the Age of Oil, the Atomic Age, the Space Age, and the Information Age to name a hefty selection.
On the Pulse now predicts we are about to enter another age. This one has just got to be called The Application (or App) Age.
Can you imagine how many Apps for mobile phones there are out there?
On the Pulse leant that there are more than 1.7 million and the variety and number is growing at a rate of more than 80,000 per month. That’s a lot of software to do a lot of…er, stuff.
The first iPhone could only carry 148 apps, but these days, depending of what model mobile you carry, you can store more than 41,000 apps. App downloads from the Apple iStore have hit more than 7.1 million a day and are increasing, so you could probably call it a growth industry.
But for On the Pulse the question remains; who the devil would need 40,000 apps?
It’s like loading up 40,000 fonts, or items of clip art on your computer. What do you do with them then? Admittedly a lot of them are games, but still would you ever use them all regularly?
Could the mobile phones of tomorrow hold too much information? If so, let’s hope there’s an app out there to sort it all out for us.
Missing man
The Northern Tablelands and New England Sub-Branch of the National Servicemen’s Association of Australia (NSAA) held its remembrance service on Saturday, with a moving event - but someone was missing.
One thing that was a little puzzling though was the list of officials included in the program. The Hon. Richard Torbay MP (morning Richard), was listed as the patron, along with the contact number 6772 555.
Richard resigned from the NSW Parliament more than a year ago now and has been relaced by some other guy from the National Party (morning Adam). But it did make us wonder if the NSAA knows something On the Pulse doesn’t.
However, that’s not the worst of it. The most unforgivable thing was that Richard’s telephone number was incomplete.
On the Pulse has been trying to contact Richard for, well, more than a year now, because he never rings anymore. Alas, it was not to be.
