Seven characteristics of a successful iPhone app

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Creating a regular iPhone app is easy. However, if, when creating a new application or improving an existing one, consider the following characteristics, you can increase its attractiveness, improve its user experience and make your application visible against others:

• Charming: These applications are attractive for their appealing design, excellent color matching and sound effects, they are easy to use and work as expected. Using them, you remain involved in the process, and return to them again and again.
• Innovative: Innovative applications are fresh and new, they bring to the market concepts that have not been used before or presenting them in a new, unusual way. These applications inspire users to make complex things simple, and fundamentally change their usual course of action.
• Well-designed: Well-designed applications provide high-quality visual design and high detail. These applications are easy to use, well organized, not cluttered, efficient, intuitive and stable.
• Integrated: Enhance functionality and add new features to your applications by integrating iPhone technologies (such as addressing tools, accelerometer, camera, etc.) into them, instead of writing your own versions of these frameworks. A set of tools for software development iPhone provides you with a large set of frameworks, using which you will save time, simplify software codes, as well as increase the stability and performance of applications, using them for their intended purpose.
• Optimized: Optimized applications squeeze the full potential of the system to the drop and take maximum advantage of all the proposed features of the iPhone operating system, including alternative input methods and interaction models.
• Connected: iPhone is always on and always connected. Connected applications exchange information and interact well with other installed applications, allowing you to use built-in contacts and photos, or access information or services on the Internet or to applications installed on other devices.
• Localized: Since the iPhone is available in more than 80 countries, you can reach the consumer, distinguish yourself from others and gain a significant competitive advantage by localizing your applications. If you can also localize the application metadata store, you can attract even more customers from other countries and speaking other languages.

For more information and examples of the features described above, see the Tech Talk World Tour presentation series for great iPhone apps.