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An App Store For iPhone Software

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-run-me-now dept.

Steve Jobs demonstrated a new "App Store" that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It's available now in beta. This will be the exclusive avenue developers will use to get their iPhone apps, written to the newly released SDK, to customers. Developers will get 70% of the proceeds from sales of their goods on the App store, with no further charges for hosting, credit-card processing, etc. Jobs called this "the best deal going to distribute applications in the mobile space."

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  1. Sooo - let me get this straight... by Shoeler · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have to pay for things I got for free before?

    Oh wait - it's Apple. Carry on. :)

    Full disclosure - I've been called an Apple fanboi before. :)

  2. Re:What about free apps? by digitac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but Apple still takes 30% of the sales price.

  3. Re:iPhone SDK, Enterprise Support Announced by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    > an iPhone version of the upcoming game Spore was also demoed

    In unrelated news, a demo of the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever Mobile was demoed.

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  4. NO PORN! by DTemp · · Score: 1, Funny

    NO PORN?!?!!!!!!!

    (Searh for the word "porn" here on ars.)

    Why else does teh internet even f'ing exist?

    Thats it STEVE, I cant exist in a world where iPhones can't be used for porn... you've left me no choice. *crying* See, I have this gun... goodbye cruel worl#@#$+!##** NO CARRIER

  5. Iphone Clippy Available now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I see you're talking to a girl. What can I assist you with?
    Flirt/Joke/Molest

  6. Re:I can smell the irony now. by UtucXul · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ask any Windows Mobile user how much they web browse on their pda/phone.
    "Browse" is a pretty strong word for what I can do with the web browser on my Q. Struggling through quicksand or maybe tar to glimpse tiny bits of the information I want before something crashes or the battery dies is probably more accurate.
  7. Rotary Dial Interface by mattOzan · · Score: 2, Funny

    First thing I'll buy: a rotary-dial interface that uses gestures to dial! No cop-out touch-sensitive numbers. It has to rotate with my finger as I pull it around, then snap back and enter that number.

    Everyone always jokes about this, but it would be so frickin cool. Retro is the new black.

  8. wifely quote by stokessd · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I'm sitting in front of my computer whining that Apple's servers have melted down and I can't get the SDK and my wife says:

    wife, "you'd think they would prepare for this sort of thing. "
    me, "there's no preparing for the onslaught of demand"
    wife, "then they should setup more computers for this, they make the f'ing things."

    me: speechless...

  9. Re:Signing is here, now what? by Ender_Wiggin · · Score: 2, Funny

    "One of the things that really strikes home is the ban on pornographic applications hosted by Apple."

    You need something more than a web browser for porn?

  10. Re:It's an accounting thing by jaypeg · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'm poor and I'm living in a van down by the river, you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:It's an accounting thing by twoshortplanks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait till we get to producing orbiting data storage for lower latency no-wires networks. The potential in the space space space is huge.

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