Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone

Downloads metrics are misleading. Most apps in this category are not actively used. The geo-aware app fun factor wears off rather quickly for ONE reason:
Apple's iPhone apps cannot run in the background! You have to manually launch all the apps and manually make updates... one app at a time.




90% of all the social iPhone apps, especially the geo-aware social apps, are USELESS until the iPhone can run them in the background & let the user multitask.

Imagine an iPhone alerting you when your geo-aware social network buddies are in your area w/o you having to log in to check anything -- NOW THAT'S A REAL APP (privacy & battery issues aside).




This is not Loopt's fault of course but things could be so much more interesting if the iPhone supported multitasking & background apps out of the box. The way things are right now, you can't even listen to your own music while running the apps -- what a mess.

Now RIM's BBs & Loopt that's another story...