Apple Launches ITunes App Store With 500+ Apps

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 10, 2008 @06:50AM from the first-one's-free-except-not-really dept.

L. Miriam writes "Apple launched the iTunes App store for the iPhone and iPod Touch today, following the earlier launch of iTunes 7.7. There are over 500 applications available for download, with prices ranging from free to around $35. Both MySpace and Facebook apps are there, as well as a mix of games, utilities and ebooks. You can download applications now, but you can't do anything with them until the iPhone/iPod 2.0 firmware is released. The App Store can't be accessed directly through iTunes, but Mobile Computer explains how to get to it, and has a few screenshots, too."

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good alternatives available by speedtux · 2008-07-10 08:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Android is going to be about 6 months too late to intercept the wave of lock-in happening right now with the app store.
Well, I suppose Apple fanboys will get locked in, but they were locked in already.
There are some nice Symbian phones coming out, Symbian is getting more and more POSIX compliant, and it will be open sourced over the next couple of years. That's probably your best bet right now until Android. And Symbian has some nice apps available.