There is one thing about having thousands of cheap choices on the app store – and that is that you can easily on a whim in a few clicks download an app for only 59p, £1.19 or as much as a few quid. The wallet does not think about that 59p at the time because it is only the price of a chocolate bar but because it is so easy to make purchases, it is easy to rack up a far larger bill. I bought an itunes voucher as I hated all those little 59 pences appearing on my credit card but the upshot of that was that I spent the voucher far quicker than I normally would as I had this big credit on my account.
Now the problem is that I am finding most of these apps I buy I never use more than once. I have over 75 apps which sit there doing nothing but taking up screen space. When I remove them I want them back ‘just in case’ I may want to use them. This is a silly situation. Not only is it a waste of money but it is a waste of my time downloading, uninstalling and so on.
Take word games for example. I have about 10 or so word games on my iphone. I play two of them regularly and the others I do not bother with because normally something else is slightly better. Other games I just buy because the screenshots look pretty but I end up not playing them 
I want a GTD (getting things done) application but most of these are around about £5 or more each and it would be expensive to buy them all. Granted, some of them have lite versions, but the very features I want to try out (like push notifications) are disabled in the lites so I do not get to try them at all.
I have a number of apps I use regularly, most notably…
Sky News, ITN News, Reuters
Tweetie, My O2
Accuweather, Weather Pro
Bejewelled 2, Boggle, Moxie
The rest I have are just sitting there winking at me wondering when they will be pressed. I think I need to stop buying.