“It looks like green lights all the way for the launch of the iPhone App Store this week. Most developers have been told they must submit their applications by 12 PM PDT today (Monday) to be considered for inclusion in the launch,” Michael Arrington reports for TechCrunch.
“The store will almost certainly launch by Friday when the 3G iPhone is released, but some app developers say the App Store will likely launch a few days before that,” Arrington reports.
“Most developers will only get a few hours notice prior to the go live time, and Apple is keeping a tight reign on PR, as usual,” Arrington reports. “The store could be launched as early as Tuesday.”
Full article here.
SUPER MONKEY BALL!!!!
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Sounds possible, but Apple will decided based on the PR possibilities rather than just opening the App Store just because it is ready.
That’s what I’d do. Use 1stGen iPhone owners as guinea pigs to work the kinks out before iDay.
I just became a guinea pig… thanks a lot R2.
So iPhone software will be update too then?
please be true
Some prerelease questions just for fun:
– Will there be many free programs and will they be truly useful?
– How much will programs sell for? Will prices rise or fall over time? Where will they settle? (A fascinating real life economics experiment.)
– Will it be easy to find useful programs or will the number of options be overwhelming?
– How many programs will initially be available? How many in a month? A year?
– How much space will programs take up on my iPhone? Will I need to upgrade to a 16GB iPhone just to hold my programs?
– Will iPhone games revolutionize the hand held game industry? Will GPS revolutionize the GPS industry?
– Will a “must have”, “killer app” emerge or will the value of the be in the sheer variety of applications available?
We’ll know a whole lot more very soon. We’re blessed to live in interesting times.
Don’t you need iPhone 2.0 before you can use the iPhone Apps Store? Wouldn’t do much good to open the store if nobody can use it!
So would they release the iPhone 2.0 OS upgrade at the same time?
Some prerelease questions just for fun:
– Will there be many free programs and will they be truly useful?
yes many!!!!!
– How much will programs sell for? Will prices rise or fall over time? Where will they settle? (A fascinating real life economics experiment.)
– Will it be easy to find useful programs or will the number of options be overwhelming?
simple and straight forward, even a guy like you can figure it out.
– How many programs will initially be available? How many in a month? A year?
250+
1,000s+
10,000+
– How much space will programs take up on my iPhone? Will I need to upgrade to a 16GB iPhone just to hold my programs?
no ….. for god sake a 4gig will do( 2gig size limit
– Will iPhone games revolutionize the hand held game industry? Will GPS revolutionize the GPS industry?
yes yes
– Will a “must have”, “killer app” emerge or will the value of the be in the sheer variety of applications available?
We’ll know a whole lot more very soon. We’re blessed to live in interesting times.
you know what piss off!!
Guess again (leaked memo):
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=122447&d=1215361188
“and Apple is keeping a tight reign on PR, as usual”
I believe that’s “tight rein.”
Since the iPhone 3G will go on sale in New Zealand at midnight their time on Friday morning (which is 5AM PDT on the 10th), the store will definitely be launched before Friday (Cupertino time). MobileMe, iTunes 7.7, and the iPhone 2.0 update will all be up and available by late Wednesday in the States.
Apple has four significant, yet related, product launches this week: iPhone G3, iPhone firmware 2.0, App Store, and MobileMe. It’s important to the growing iPhone platform that all of these roll-outs go smoothly.
If I were in charge, well, I wouldn’t be sitting in a cubicle posting to a message board. But aside from that, if I were in charge, I would not roll out all these products on one day.
The new iTunes and Firmware are prerequisite for everything else, so I’d roll them out first, perhaps by the end of June. Then, a few days later (perhaps over the holiday weekend), I’d put MobileMe in place, including the push technology. Then I’d rev up the app store by this Tuesday, leaving all three pieces ready and waiting for a flood of new customers this Friday for the iPhone 3G release.
Again, if I were so bright, I would be much more accomplished than I actually am, so perhaps this comment doesn’t add too much. But it seems to me that these four pieces need to work seamlessly by Friday or else the iPhone will face bad buzz on Friday and over the weekend, which could harm the long term viability of the platform. It’s awfully risky to launch them all on one day.
iMatt,
Apple has already failed in one of the four endeavors in Canada. By next Tuesday Apple will have failed in three of four endeavors in Canada.
But Canada doesn’t count, right?
Falkirk,
The largest app you can download over AT&T;3G is 10mb, so I’d count on your average app being less than that. Also when I Googled what the cap was (thought it might have been 100mb), I found some info that said the largest jailbroken app is around 10mb. So I’d say even an 8gb iPhone owner like me will manage just fine
@iMatt
The new iTunes and Firmware are prerequisite for everything else, so I’d roll them out first, perhaps by the end of June. Then, a few days later (perhaps over the holiday weekend), I’d put MobileMe in place, including the push technology.
Maybe you’re not so accomplished because you speak of the past in the future tense…
Then again, I have a feeling that lots of people are underemployed or wrongly employed. Who knows – you could have the capacity to be the world’s best sword forger. But I bet you’ve never gotten the chance to try. So there you are in the cubicle.
Society will take a great leap when we learn better ways to match skills/gifts/genius to their partner profession in a way that benefits humanity. Maybe those sword-making skills could also make you a quite accomplished sculptor or spacecraft skin developer… but we’ll never know. Because you’re stuck in that cubicle dreaming about leading Apple.
WAIT!!
Until the bugs get worked out.
Also Apple has not updated the iPhone software to fix all the security issues.
The CIA/FBI/NSA must be having a field day with the bonazza of intel over the AT&T;network.
@ Cortico Pontine
Ah, but that’s for the 3G iPhones being sold from AT&T;stores. AT&T;stores won’t have anything to do with upgrading 2G iPhones with 2.0 software or downloading apps.
That being said, I doubt Apple would require developers to submit apps by midnight Monday 7/7/08 and release the 2.0 software and open the app store on Tuesday 7/8/08. That doesn’t give Apple much time to review and approve apps.
It’s not Apple’s style to stagger software/hardware releases.
However, it could create a nice, additional 3-day excitement and free PR campaign if Apple did release early.
I prefer to be a NEW Guinea pig….
@ he, he, he
It’s not that Canada doesn’t count. It’s just that you don’t count.
I laugh at you.
I love it when I can say I saw this coming a long, long time ago.
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YEY for AIM!!! sooner the better
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ha ha ha has this viagra induced hard for apple that just won’t retreat. Do us all a favor and don’t eat any watermelon.
@He, he, he
Poor sad lonely boy. We pity you.
It’s my understanding that iTunes 7.7 will be required to use the new Apps Store, so I’d wait for that release first.
Nerd Beautiful,
Darn it, I’m still waiting for an interview at the sword forgery!