The iPhone App Store is a blessing and a curse. It's one of the best things about the mobile platform, but it's so popular that finding great new apps to download can be a real challenge. Where there's a monetizable pain-point, services will flower! Enter a variety of new iPhone app recommendation services that aim to point you toward your next download and pocket the affiliate fees for paid apps.
Below we've posted a chart comparing the features of 5 new services for iPhone app discovery: Apple's own App Genius, a new social app discovery service called Chorus that linked to great press coverage this morning, a simple mobile sharing service called AppsFire, a remarkably similar service called Yappler and Appolicious, a website like Delicious for iPhone apps.
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Comparing 5 iPhone App Recommendation Services
Different people will want to use different apps in this matrix to suit their different needs. The boxes in yellow are my personal favorite implementations of each feature in question. Here's why.
Best mobile interface: App Genius, Apple's own servi