Weekend discussion: What do you do with your unused apps?

October 3, 2009 | Robert Nelson

App Store, iPhone Apps

Weekend discussion: What do you do with your unused apps?

With the weekend upon us, and thanks to the recent release of Pwnage Tool 3.1.3 I have been spending some quality time this morning (well technically late last night and into the early morning) with iTunes and my iPhone.

One thing that I noticed was I currently have 93 (jailbroken and official) apps installed on my iPhone. Personally I am not sure if that is high, low or average, but more important is that I have many more than that in iTunes. In fact I have about 4 times that in iTunes. I guess that means I test and play with a lot of apps that I later decide not to use.

With that, my question is: What do you do with your unused apps?

Personally, I leave them in iTunes. I also do not think I have ever deleted an app that I have downloaded from the App Store. I am not sure why I am saving them because there are some that I know I will never use again because I hated, and there are some I had liked but were replaced with something better. I guess I should just delete them from iTunes, but if that were the case I may miss an update that makes me move that app back into my spotlight.

Anyway, I guess my setup is working, just recently, well maybe a month or two back I rediscovered TwitBird Pro. I had been using and really liking Tweetie, and then one morning I noticed an update for TwitBird. Of course I had forgotten that the app was even installed, so out of curiosity I added it back to the iPhone and in turn have been using it as my default Twitter app since.