The Urbanspoon iPhone application has been widely popular among users of the iPhone since its inception as a free app in early 2008. Since being released, Urbanspoon’s popularity has skyrocketed, and the app has become a hit in cities across the nation. The app gives the user the ability to find restaurants in a certain city using three criteria. The three criteria for finding a restaurant are price, type, and neighborhood. Depending on which criteria the user locks in, the app generates suggestions for restaurants using GPS, finding the closest restaurants that meet the criteria. One reason the app has been hugely successful is because it is free, while many other apps cost money.

The app was created by three Seattle-based software developers by the names of Ethan Lowry, Adam Doppelt, and Patrick O’Donnell. All three men have backgrounds in software development, and they describe themselves are ‘techies.’ Lowry lightly claims that he has been eating food much longer than he has been writing code for software, so that makes him more a food guy. All three men have been developing software in the Seattle area for the past decade, and the Urbanspoon iPhone app by far is their biggest accomplishment in their careers. The Urbanspoon iPhone app became so successful that it was recently purchased by IAC Interactive corp, a leading software distributor for smart phones.

The Urbanspoon app is so popular that Apple lists the app as the #11 most popular free application of all time. Students, foodies, and adults from around the country now turn to Urbanspoon when they are in search of a restaurant in a certain area. By pulling up the app on the iPhone, the UrbanSpoon can quickly tell users where a near by restaurant meeting certain criteria is located. The app is great for anyone who is interested in finding a place to eat in an unfamiliar area. After determining your location through the global positioning system on the iPhone, the program presents the user with a slot machine-like layout of food types and price ranges. By determining one or two of the criteria, the Urbanspoon makes a suggestion of a restaurant near by that fits the criteria. The user can continue to generate suggestions until they find a restaurant that they like. The app is very useful for discovering new places to eat, which is one reason why the app became so popular and successful.

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