iPhone Food Apps

Mashable has a writeup of 21 iPhone food apps, most of which are restaurant finders and reviews. Their review of the YPMobile App? "When worse comes to worse, hit up the Yellow Pages". They also had some good apps I haven't heard of, like one that includes the menus of many popular restaurants. A good read if you're looking for new apps for your iPhone or just want to see what your competitors are doing.

21 iPhone Food Apps to Eat Your Heart Out

iPhone Apps - 4 of Top 5 are Local

There are now over 1000 apps in the iPhone store and if you look at the top 5, 4 of them are local applications:
1. Google (the only non-local)
2. UrbanSpoon, with its cool "shake me and get a surprise result" feature
3. BoxOffice, with an easy to use local movie time application and Rotten Tomatoes critic ratings
4. WeatherBug
5. Yelp, which in my view has the nicest local implementation, with the ability to easily search near you, a map view, and the ability to read every review in detail (so many apps do shortcut reviews, including the iTunes store, which doesn't give you anything beyond the star rating

It really seems that the iPhone is the platform that will finally drive broad acceptance of mobile applications and mobile search. Approx 10MM iPhones are out there in the US right now and with their ease-of-use and full-time access to the Internet, they will become the local platform of choice. And they're just scratching the surface of what they can do.

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