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Are these the first screenshots of the iPhone AppStore?
One of our readers sent us in some screenshots of his iPhone showing what appears to be the anticipated iTunes AppStore. Could these pictures be the AppStore, or could it be some type of hack? It definitely looks legit to us! He says that after opening and closing the AppStore a couple of times and getting an "iTunes connection" error, it finally loaded some random AppStore pages.We also got word from modmyifone.com that they got the same tip we did and are featuring the screenshots as well. That's two votes for legitimacy...
Gallery: iPhone 2.0 AppStore
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Ben Kessler said 12:17AM on 3-23-2008
Facebook app eh? I feel like they would stick to the web app..
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poetic_folly said 12:33AM on 3-23-2008
http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81261
Is the link to the story and images. ;)
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danielbaker said 12:34AM on 3-23-2008
the one problem with this..is well.. it says T-mobile.
do you really think the dev team has already come out with a jailbreak for it..and a way to unlock it?
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dagamer34 said 12:49AM on 3-23-2008
They did. It's called Pwnage Project. Confirmed to be working with firmware 2.0.
http://iphone-dev.org/news:pwnage
David Chartier said 12:48AM on 3-23-2008
Yes, in fact that was reported a week or so ago.
danielbaker said 12:52AM on 3-23-2008
Update: sorry guys some stupid forums told me that it wasnt really jailbroken.
and looking at all the videos showcassing it..they're all on t-mobile
Stephen.4 said 11:05AM on 3-23-2008
Ahh maybe ZiPhone for unlocking, as it is confirmed to work too.
Luke James said 12:54AM on 3-23-2008
the number of reviews makes this seem a little fishy to me.
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RonTo said 1:29AM on 3-23-2008
Indeed. I thought the same thing. I feel like I should call "Shenanigans" or something.
Brandon said 1:01AM on 3-23-2008
Look at the top result for JouleData Solutions (listed as the creator of the Checkers application:
http://www.jouledata.com/
Looks like a conglomeration of hacked iPhone apps to me. Even if they were doing SDK development, they wouldn't be on the pre-rollout store along with Facebook.
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Aaron said 1:50AM on 3-23-2008
agreed with Luke James...thats a ton of reviews for something that hasn't been released to public yet.
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aaron Alexander said 3:06AM on 3-23-2008
i posted the pics, its real.. why would i lie?
www.monsterandfriends.com owns! :P
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Jon said 3:26AM on 3-23-2008
I smell Photoshop...
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Max Goedjen said 4:32AM on 3-23-2008
Rather feels like Photoshop to me. Seems that if Apple was going to do an App store in this style, they'd use a standard(ish) NSCell, while these are obviously quite customized(coloration, mainly). Granted, Apple can deviate significantly from their own designs(case in point: Aperture 2), but this doesn't look like a style they'd take.
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Max Goedjen said 4:33AM on 3-23-2008
Excuse me, UITableViewCell (still not thinking in Cocoa Touch yet :P)
David said 4:36AM on 3-23-2008
You know it probably will work and look something very similar to this. It could even be that the Apple designers haven't finished yet and they have thrown up a couple of 'placeholder' things for testing but...
I have two problems with the screenshots that make me feel like calling 'shenannigins'. My first thought is, why is a Facebook app (web/social category) appearing next to a Checkers game (game/entertainment category). You would think that the difference between the two would mean they appear in different categories (like the other screenshot has). Then, I ask, shouldn't there be a price tag on there somewhere? Or a tag that at least says 'free'.
But, I'm pretty sure that this is sort of it...but you are seeing a work in progress with a couple of 'placeholder' apps just thrown up there for testing.
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David said 4:39AM on 3-23-2008
Oh wait...it says top 50. Doh.
Ok...but I still call this a slight work in progress so some things will change Im sure.
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Think Adrian said 6:44AM on 3-23-2008
Well, we did see a large bit of the App Store during the special event. I don't think this is anything to shout W00t! about...
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ars_workerbee said 7:59AM on 3-23-2008
> We also got word from modmyiphone.com that they got the same tip we did and are featuring the screenshots as well. That's two votes for legitimacy...
Wow, so all I have to do to get a made-up story more cred is submit it to multiple sites?
The logical fallacies that occur on a routine basis surrounding Apple and rumors amaze me, and only go to show how far bloggers really are from being real journalists.
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trvs said 8:09AM on 3-23-2008
such an obvious fake. embarrassing that you guys even posted it.
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