Now Share Your Latest App Recommendations With A Simple Bump
February 1, 2011
You've already been able to share photos, contacts, calendar events, and more with a simple bump of your iDevice with another iDevice user running Bump. The last major update even added an easy way to share favorite song suggestions. Today, Bump offers users a chance to show which apps they find to be the latest "must have."
Bump v2.4 adds the new category of Apps. Pick and choose apps that you have installed on your iDevice, or just use the search feature to quickly find ones not listed. Bump doesn't locate and list every app you have installed on your iDevice. TechCrunch notes that retrieving the list of apps on your iDevice isn't an officially supported task offered to developers.
Every service that generates a list of your installed apps has to find a workaround. Lieb believes that Bump’s is generally better than the competition’s, and while he wouldn’t get into details on how it works, he says it involves looking at the list of applications that are currently running on the phone. The only catch: apps that you don’t run frequently won’t show up. Of course, if you’re recommending an application to your friend, then it probably isn’t sitting dormant on your phone.TechCrunch also makes a mention of how Bump's co-founder finds their feature to be much more personal than that of services like Chomp
The difference, says Bump co-founder David Lieb, is that the app exchange using Bump is more personal. You aren’t posting your recommendations to followers on Facebook, or through the application’s internal social network — you’re tapping your phone together with a friend and swapping recommendations immediately (assuming they have Bump too).As a reminder, Bump does offer "virtual bumps" if you happen to not always cross physical paths with your Bump-equipped buddies. Bump is designed for iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later, and you can download it for free in the App Store now.
