New In The App Store – One Seek

My "One Screen Challenge" got me thinking about how great it is when you are able to consolidate a number of functions into a single app. For example, Evernote can be used for text, photo and voice notes if I want to save time and space. There are others, and as the App Store matures the list will continue to grow.  There is one new app in particular that has the potential to replace many different apps.

The new app One Seek is, for all intents and purposes, a web app. It is useless unless you actually have a live data connection and there is nothing that a web-based app could not do that this resident app does (or could do- more on that later).  It does, however, have the potential to be hugely convenient by rolling numerous different search functions into a single app. With One Seek you can quickly and easily pull up numerous sites, including

??1) Google.com? 2) Wikipedia.com? 3) IMDB.com ?4) Amazon.com ?5) Ask.com ?6) Answers.com ?7) Dictionary.com ?8) Digg.com ?9) Ebay.com ?10) Facebook.com? 11) Linkedin.com ?12) MSN.com? 13) Myspace.com? and 14) Thesaurus.com

So for $2 you get a single web portal to some of the most popular sites. It might actually be worth it if…

the app actually did anything. And that’s the problem.

As a resident app it could save your last searches. It doesn’t.
As a resident app it could be configurable so that the sites you use most appear at the top. It isn’t.
And as an iPhone app, it could access the iPhone optimized versions of sites like Google, Amazon, and many more. It won’t.

Let me stress that last point – it is 2008 and there are tons of amazing iPhone optimized sites that make it easy to use and read information on an iPhone. This app charges $2 for a portal to these sites and it doesn’t even go to the optimized version.

There is SO much potential here and absolutely none of it is reached.
 
You can get it HERE in the App Store but I can’t recommend it.

In fact, I want my $2 back.