Apple Debuts App Store in Advance of iPhone 3G
Apple's App Store has arrived. Apple launched its App Store Thursday which features third-party applications for the iPhone 3G one day in advance of the much anticipated iPhone 3G which goes on sale Friday. The App Store became available this morning when Apple released its 7.7 version of the iTunes software. The App Store will also be available directly from the iPhone 3G's software.
I took a look the App Store and browsed some of the 27 pages of Apps ready to go tomorrow. For social networking there's Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Loopt and Aim, and there are plenty of games, business and utilities apps such as Bloomberg, ISpend, and Oultliner. While many are free, some are quite expensive. I found a golf scoring application for $18.99.
In all there are 500 applications available, 125 of which are free.
To access the App Store you need the latest version of iTunes. As of 8:30am ET iTunes was only available via download through Apple's iTunes download page - not through the iTunes automatic update service. The App Store is also not on the iTunes Store homepage, so click here (ONLY after you update to iTunes 7.7) to check out all the iPhone goodies. The apps can be downloaded now, but you won't be able to use them until tomorrow when the new iPhone 3G and the iPhone software upgrade come out.
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You know what's really great about the Remote app? That it's completely useless on to those of us streaming our libraries from our Macs. You can only control files that are directly on the Apple TV.
Want to listen you your favorite playlist through your Apple TV while you're out on the patio? Nope. This app is for people that sit in front of their iMacs to watch a movie.
I suppose I would be grateful that the app is free, if I were even able to use any feature in it.