![]() ![]() Apple's iMovie is widely used by video journalists on their iPads because it works very well for editing videos. Omni Group's OmniFocus task manager and OmniGraffle diagramming tool are of a similar caliber. It's amazingly powerful and well-suited to an iPad's touch environment. I find, for example, Apple's Keynote for iOS a much better tool for creating high-impact slideshows than Microsoft PowerPoint or even Keynote's Mac version. There's no reason mobile apps can't be powerful A common knock on mobile apps is that they can't do what a PC app can do, that they're basically limited to information access, what pundits call "consumption." That's pure BS. ![]() There's more than one answer to that question, and as a group they paint a fascinating picture of the evolution of apps as the definition of personal computing expands way beyond the PC we've known and loved since the early 1980s. I haven't found many examples of homegrown apps, either, for use by enterprises. However, there were no killer apps that show mobile pushing into bold new directions. I found the usual small set: Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) and Google's Quickoffice Pro for office productivity, and client apps for cloud storage (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, and so on), social networking (HootSuite and so on), CRM (, SAP, and so on), Evernote, and FileMaker Pro. If mobile computing is displacing traditional PC computing, where are all the business apps that do on an iPad or Galaxy Note what you can do on a Windows PC or Mac? It's a question my boss asked me six months ago, and thus, I went searching for a gallery of business-savvy mobile apps. ![]()
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