iPhone SDK apps: AIM and others headed your way

Apple wasn't just loving on gamers and enterprise types with its app announcements today. Other hot softwares to get the iPhone treatment include AIM, Epocrates and Touch FX. It probably wouldn't be much of a stretch to call AIM the most requested app for the iPhone, and while we would've liked to see it included out of the box, it's better late than never, right? Epocrates is a medical app, which sounds very very interesting for all five people out there planning on using it. Touch FX is quite a bit more fun, developed by Apple in a couple days and featuring realtime picture manipulation with multitouch.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 5:56PM]

Don't underestimate the number of people awaiting an iPhone version of epocrates. i have 6 people in my practice alone waiting for a decent drug app for the iPhone, in total somewhere close to probably 20 in our hospital total. It'd be nice if some of the nicer drug apps would put together an iPhone version of their software.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 15th 2008 7:11PM]

ePocrates is actually going to be a big plus for the iPhone. My mother, who is about as anti-tech as you can get, almost bought an iPhone last summer after I showed her a bunch of the things I could do with it, but the lack of ePocrates is what killed the deal. In Googling to find another option, I found forums full of medical professionals with the same desire. I also found the funniest iPhone comment I've ever seen: "I'm going to wait for the 2nd-gen iPhone, I hear it's going to have a built-in defibrillator." LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 10th 2008 12:05AM]

yeah I have to agree with boosting1bar. The ONLY reason my dad hasn't bought an iPhone yet is because it didn't have ePocrates. Looks like he'll be on board now.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 7th 2008 12:52AM]

Why wouldn't Apple release an iPhone version of iChat, its own software, rather than going with AIM?