IKEA 2010 UK Catalog Gets an iPhone App

Although companies like SwedeShop have tried to improve the IKEA experience by offering ways to track items and your budget, there's nothing like experiencing 310+ pages of IKEA goodness from the palm of your hand.

The app allows you to scroll through rooms, zoom in for a closer look, then click on furniture you'd like to buy. A video of the app in action below:

Currently, it's in a test-phase for the IKEA UK 2010 catalog only. Given enough success, we're sure to see it come stateside pretty soon. Luckily for us, we have a pounds to dollars converter app in case we find something we really like...

[Via Apartment Therapy New York]

Comments (8)

Well thanks, Ikea!

Apparently you dont really want my business.

Once you pull your heads out of your rear and realize that people with Android, Windows Mobile, Black Berry, and Symbian or Java phones might want to browse your catalog, maybe then we can do business.

this looks pretty neat. finally give me a reason to ditch the catalog on my bookshelf.

@PartMeant

The iPhone has a very large and incredibly fast growing market share both in the US and worldwide. As of March, the iPhone commanded over 50% of smartphone web traffic in the US alone. It has a much larger and better supported software development kit (Android is just getting started) and an unparalleled App Store.

This past quarter alone the iPhone grabbed 17% of the worldwide smartphone market, and that's with one model with a single OS that runs on all three models that have been released in the past 2 years (e.g. one size fits all apps). Surveys have shown that iPhone users, while not #1 in market share, download more apps than all other smartphones combined.

Now, I realize from past posts that you're not the biggest fan of Apple but you can't ignore numbers. Need I complain about Windows getting some (fewer) applications first? Ikea's heads are not in their posteriors but where most consumers' are......looking at their iPhones.

PartMeant--

I think its poetic justoce for all those years where "not for use on a Mac" was a standard disclaimer...

The iPhone has a very large and incredibly fast growing market share both in the US and worldwide. As of March, the iPhone commanded over 50% of smartphone web traffic in the US alone. It has a much larger and better supported software development ...

Now, I realize from past posts that you're not the biggest fan of Apple but you can't ignore numbers. Need I complain about Windows getting some (fewer) applications first? Ikea's heads are not in their posteriors but where most consumers' are......looking at their iPhones."

Like I will say again after your regurgitation of "OMG Apple is like soooooo awesome" rah rah cheer talk...

((((IKEA APPARENTLY DOES NOT WANT MY BUSINESS))))

Once you pull your heads out of your rear and realize that people with Android, Windows Mobile, Black Berry, and Symbian or Java phones might want to browse your catalog, maybe then we can do business.

Ikea wants people like me to shop their catalog online? Then they better start thinking a bit outside of the box. I'm not going to buy an Apple phone just to buy from them.

Need you complain about Windows getting some applications first? Well maybe I can recite Windows usage numbers (billion worldwide), and the fact that Windows7 is on more PC now than there are Apple boxes combined, as a reason for people to stop wasting time on making Mac versions apps since it's such a nothing number?

Cant argue with numbers, can we?

I'm not going to get into a big argument (something I've grown out of and is more suited for Engadget, etc.). I am unabashedly an Apple fan.

To reiterate, Ikea is simply going towards the larger market first and they'll likely make their way down to the rest later.

My comment about Windows software was not a real complaint but simply a reversal of yours as Apple is the one with the majority popularity with the iPhone (vs Windows in computers). Numbers wise Macs now have over 10% share in the US (up from 3% five years ago) and 1 in 5 notebooks is now a Mac...numbers that are harder to ignore today than they were a few years ago.

Let's paraphrase:

"X Software apparently does not want my business.

Once you pull your heads out of your rear and realize that people with Macs, Ubuntu and other Linux boxes might want to use your X Software, maybe then we can do business.

X Software maker wants people like me to shop their product? Then they better start thinking a bit outside of the box. I'm not going to buy a Windows box just to buy from them."

It would be silly to think they don't want your business because they haven't catered to your platform first over the more popular one. Like I said, flipped tables, numbers and reality.

Nothing sinister.