Competitiveness between Apple and Microsoft has increased yet some more since the launch of the original free iPhone application on the Internet. Both companies obviously seem to think they absolutely need to be on top of things, no matter what. But since the heavy burden of the financial crisis still rests upon the world, it is unrealistic to believe something is actually free. You might get to download an extra free iPhone application, but the goal of this might just be to have you redirected on some website that helps you get out of debt, for example, or on any other website that needs hits, really.
Of course, the free iPhone application is available to you, subject to the terms and conditions you agreed to when you got your phone, but as stated above, nothing is free. When you bought the iPhone, the price was fixed and this price most likely included your so-called free iPhone application. Even if you didn’t want it, you would have to remove your free iPhone application yourself and you certainly would not have benefited from a discount if you asked whoever sold it to you to remove it for you.

Clicks And Hits

Every single person who ever accessed a website can be identified. The more hits there are on a website the more people can be traced, and all this information is stored somewhere, so there is seriously very little anonymity. Obviously, this is good when it comes to things like extremist or child pornography sites because culprits can be identified faster, but it also concerns you quite directly: every little bit of information about you that you thought was secure, the free iPhone application could use to track your every word and move. It is almost as if you were leaving a trail behind that, in the end, could always be retraced to where it came from: you.
And it’s not just apple, even Microsoft can offer you any free iPhone application they want, and it will run on your iPhone without problems. Obviously, in such a competitive world, companies have to make sure they are still up and running, even on the competitor’s goods.
The only thing that’s still missing is the possibility to play games with iPhone applications and that is a concept which is well in development and which will be launched very soon. This will mean even less boredom and more entertainment for kids (at least until they get bored with the iPhone) and entertainment during lunch break for adults, who will not have to wait until they get home to play games anymore.

The Limitations

Obviously, technology development will not go backward, and competition between companies will increase. Breathing space will become shorter and shorter, and the simple things in life may well be forgotten. Of course getting through life with one small gadget sounds appealing, but it is important to remember that we have to set limits as to how far we let technology take over our lives and how big a place we let it have.