A new contender for king of the iPhone apps is the little known iPling. This is the latest of a bunch of iPhone apps designed specifically to target owners of the new 3G iPhone.
Interestingly enough iPling has opted out of the iPhone apps supermarket run by Apple (the apps store) and is instead choosing to go it alone, selling only on its own site.
The social networking market is pretty well saturated as it stands so iPling needs to do something dramatically different in order to survive. It reckons that it does. Can iPling make it in the cutthroat world of iPhone apps? Read on.
Your profile on iPling is tagged and coded in such a way that the software’s engine can locate similarly interested users. Once you’ve been matched with other users you will be placed in an iPling ‘circle’; if you want to you are then free to contact other members of the circle via anonymous SMS (like other iPhone apps security is a major concern).
The idea of contacting other people on the network via SMS (or ‘pling’, as the application has renamed it) is quite unique and this may be enough to get iPling through what would undoubtedly be difficult initial times. Will it survive in the long run? Let’s hope so!
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