Now one year old, Apple's iPhone app store boasts 75,000 mobile applications, and the company's television commercials claim that iPhone users can find "an app for that," no matter what "that" may be.
Recently, Vonage released a VoiP app for the iPhone, enabling users to make free or low-cost phone calls over a Wi-Fi connection or via the cellular voice channel.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based car-sharing service, Zipcar, also launched an app that allows a customer to use an iPhone to locate and reserve a vehicle and unlock it. It is the first app of its kind to control the operation of a car.
With the release of these two high-profile iPhone apps, it is clear that iPhones are no longer limited to being cell phones. They are multi-purpose tools that have the ability to suit themselves to any hobby, career or lifestyle.
Point Park University's computer labs use some Apple computers and software, and the Cinema and Digital Arts Department depends exclusively on Apple workstations. Such an Apple-devoted campus was the ideal spot to put the company's claims of "an app for everyone" to the test. Students and faculty alike, it turns out, have already found out just how much more convenient life can be with an app-loaded iPhone in hand.
The Globe
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA
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