The 10 iPhone Apps As Important To Us As Oxygen (AAPL)

We have 70 different applications on our iPhone, not including the stock apps that Apple includes with the phone.

Of the apps we've downloaded, you could take away 60 and we wouldn't bat an eye. But if you were to take away 10 of the apps, you'd pretty much be turning our smartphone in one dumb, and sort-of pointless, phone.

Which apps do we hold near and dear? We've assembled them here and we've taken a look at how they do as a business.

Instagram has quickly developed into our favorite photo app

Instagram, despite its annoying insistence on only square photos, has become our default photo application. We like the tilt-shift, we like the filters, and we really like the interface that allows us to flip through our friend's photos and share our own. 

Business Analysis: No revenue for Instagram yet. It will probably not worry about money for a few years. We have no idea how it monetizes, aside from ads. We'd hope there's something more interesting, but we're not betting on it.

Free, iTunes link

Instapaper is the best way to gather all your long reads in one place.

We don't always read all the stories we save in Instapaper, but it's reassuring to know we have an app stuffed with high quality long form journalism.

Business Analysis: It must be doing pretty well since developer Marco Arment left his job as CTO of Tumblr to focus on Instapaper. He charges $5 per download for the app and it's definitely worth it.

$4.99: iTunes link

Apple's Texas Hold Em has out lasted all other iPhone games on our phone

At various points of our iPhone lives, we have fallen in love with Angry Birds, Cut The Rope, Tiny Wings, Tiger Woods Golf, and Doodle Jump. But, Apple's Texas Hold Em app has managed to hold our interest longer than any of those other apps.

We don't play it every day of every week, but we definitely find ourselves playing it a few times a month which is more than we can say for the aforementioned iPhone games.

Business Analysis: It's a drop in the bucket for Apple. They don't update the app, and don't promote it much. It was one of the first apps just to make sure there were some great games early on for Apple.

$4.99, iTunes link

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