One of the best games I've tried – and come back to often – that uses accelerometer for "steering" is Boost. And its simple, effective graphics are very immersive too! I'd certainly like to hear about others that pull off accelerometer control this well.

I also come back to word puzzle game Jumbeline very, very often. I especially like the fluid feel of shifting the letter tiles around.

As we say in Italy: "Truth is in middle" It means that both arguments are valid, but no one is entirely true, they are the two sides of the same coin, kinda.

It's best to use another metaphor here. Think yourself like a young boy who has lived for his entire life in a small village. Surely he can tell exactly the name of each place, or has memory of it.
However, he decides to move into the town. Now he discovers a whole new world of possibilities. At first he'll explore every area without going deeper than the main street, but soon he'll find out a nice indian restaurant in a tiny unlighted street and he'll love it. A niche restaurant.

Same happened to me. Until i was 12-13 i had no broadband connection and i couldn't download mp3. I bought a few CDs, maybe three or four. Yes, I remember every single word of those CDs, but that's because i hadn't any other music to listen. Now i discover new genres and bands every day and i couldn't be happier.

Although i started to listen at Coldplay at 15, in the mp3 era, i have tons of memories with their songs. I could never have listened to them without the "infinite" choice internet gives you.

To sum up, probably the problem in the appstore is not in its thousands of apps. It's elsewhere and we'll find it, sooner or later.

I definitely see your point, however I respectfully disagree. I grew up before the 'digital revolution', so I completely understand what you're saying about how you listened to the same songs over and over and many memories are built up around them. I do have nostalgia for such times, but I don't need to listen to the same song over and over to appreciate it. There are still songs that I listen to many many times even though I have unlimited access to new music through streaming radio stations, MP3s, and more.

Although you have many memories built around listening to certain albums and sharing those times with friends or family, do you not have many memories showing off to friends some new apps or some new band you randomly found through Pandora? I'm in no way saying your point is completely invalid, I just believe you're putting too much emphasis of your memories on a soundtrack consisting of a single album. Although I may listen to the same songs less often now, they still gain a hard link to many good memories. The soundtrack (or app-track?) of my life is simply more varied now.

Steve Jobs, where is my commission? 🙂

Warfare incorporated made me game for weeks, but it's the only one. (and since i completed the default mission i quitted)

That said, the games I do like on the phone do still get played. I just don't play them daily. Sometimes not even every week. Curious how exactly those numbers were determined by Pinch. I still play TapTap Revenge once every couple weeks. I play Lexic, Word Scramble, reMovem, Hanoi, and other 'quick' games once or twice a week. I wonder if, since I'm not playing regularly like I did when I first got them, that's considered somebody that doesn't play them anymore. Games that definitely fit that mold for me are games like Eliminate, Doom, Ravensword, etc. Games that were really cool to be able to play on the phone, but it comes down to the phone and controls just being too limiting to take those types of games too seriously. A FPS is darn cool to be able to play on a phone, but every half decent gamer knows you need a good mouse and keyboard to actually 'compete'. (I'll probably anger some console fanbois with that comment. Sorry in advance!)

Companies need to start pumping out the Bluetooth accessories. If they do, I foresee a whole new game (pun intended).

Another recent exception of that rule is Soosiz, because of it's controls, charm (my gf loves it) and longetivity. Most of the other iPhone games really have not come close to that level of polish and accessability.