It is finally time. http://www.iapp100.com/ has been officially launched!
Matt Patterson and I have been working on this project for some time now. He already had the iPhone, and I just had an iTouch not wanting to go to AT&T – but already both of us had thought we need to make finding Apps for these devices easier. Although we are always wanting to make it better and have it do more – we felt it was time to let the cat out of the bag.
The idea is pretty simple. We wanted a place to be able to review an App, easily search for Apps by rank or category and also find out what Apps that just came out or had dropped in price. One frustration was that Apps from the Apple iTunes App Store is that Apps can go on sale for a week – but you would never know it unless you just happen to look at that App. We wanted to make it easy to see what was on sale – so you could capture the deal!
We have a lot of really exciting plans for this site – and we will keep you up to date on the progress. You can keep track by visiting the homepage of iApp100 or follow us on Twitter @iapp100. Please give us feedback for the site – we just want to make it as useful as possible.
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I could not believe that it has only been 1 year since the grand opening of the Apple iTunes AppStore. I guess it’s just been in the media and growing so fast it seems like it has been around much longer. 50,000+ apps are already available in the store. That is some major growth! Be looking forward to later this week for an annocement of a project I and some friends have been working on. I am quite excited about it!
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Apple presented at the WWDC at noon today. I missed my lunch watching the live updates come from MacRumors (thank you and great job, guys!). For those that did not want to miss their lunch – here are some updates I thought were interesting:
- Steve Jobs did not make an appearance
- iPhone OS 3.0 will be released for the older models June 17th (Free for iPhone users – iTouch will be $9.99)
- iPhone OS 3.0 New Features (Copy/Paste/Undo, Cross Program Search, MMS Support (Not until possibly late summer for AT&T customers, PC Tethering (Yep, not suppored by AT&T again), website form autofill support, and more Landscape keyboards
- New iPhone 3GS will be released June 19 (Faster hardware, Better auto-focus camera, records video, and voice control)
- New Pricing with the iPhone 3GS Release - 3G 8GB: $99, 3GS 16GB: $199, 3GS 32GB: $299
- Apple Reports Current Apps offered on each platform: iPhone (50,000), Andriod (4,900), Nokia (1,088), Blackberry (1,030), Palm (18)
UPDATE: Here is a link to the actual full video keynote from Apple.
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Apple is about to hit a billion apps download from their iTunes App Store. Although I am not a fan on searching through the store to find apps (I will hopefully have a solution for that soon) - I love the idea of the app store. I have not yet taken a look at the Windows Mobile or Blackberry app stores yet that are being created to hopefully get some of the Apple success, but I will soon and make a post on those.
Apple wants to celebrate the billionth app – so they are going to be giving out a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. You can be entered to win if you download an app from the store, or you can enter free at their website.
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In a post written by Wired they claim that with the new iPhone OS update they are also going to release a new update to the AppStore as well. The rumor states that Apple will give special placement of a developers App if it sells for $20 or more. Since Apple receives 30% of each App sale, you can see why they would be motivated to do this. The thought it Apple doesn’t want these premium apps being lost in the background tocheap popular apps, since their sales will probably be less than a $0.99 app.
I have always thought it would be a very good idea for Apple to redo their AppStore since I get very frustrated on finding iPhone Apps inside iTunes. That is why I am working with some others to help make that process a lot easier. I will get into that in another post.
Just like in grocery stores or in the retail stores, vendors will pay for premium placement either at eye level or on the end of the aisle. I think it only makes sense for Apple to set applications apart from others to help with better high-end sales. I just hope they don’t make it too hard to find the other great inexpensive apps!
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