Weekend discussion: What do you do with your unused apps?
October 3, 2009 | Robert Nelson

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.











I do exactly the same as you and very possibly have as many apps just wasting away in iTunes.
Why get rid of them? I too have had an app be improved significantly with an upgrade.
Hi Robert. Funny thing… I actually learned about a few cool apps from your screen shot accompanying this article. Don’t suppose you’d care to share a look at your entire installed library of apps?…assuming the ones you have installed are your fave apps. I’d like to see what you got, since the ones you showed in this article ROCKED. You must have other cool ones!
Thanks
CF
@Carolyn
Glad to share, and I actually did a post covering just that on October 6, here is the link.
http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/10/time-to-share-my-current-iphone-setup.html