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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. What about free apps? by EVil+Lawyer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Will they distribute apps for developers who don't want to charge users for the privilege of downloading/using?

  2. Why I won't be getting an iPhone by kemushi88 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One of the most appealing features of the iPhone for me was the fact that its virtually a full computer in a small box. I hoped this meant that I will be able to write my own software/scripts and really play around with the device (without some 3rd party hack). This announcement confirms my long standing fear. If I have to go through apple to run applications I write ON MY OWN DEVICE, then no sale. Looking forward to Android...