Are these the first screenshots of the iPhone AppStore?
Posted Mar 23rd 2008 12:10AM by Cory Bohon
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
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...
Thanks AaronTags: AppStore, iPhone, SDK
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-23-2008 @ 12:17AM
Ben Kessler said...
Facebook app eh? I feel like they would stick to the web app..
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3-23-2008 @ 12:33AM
poetic_folly said...
http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81261
Is the link to the story and images. ;)
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3-23-2008 @ 12:34AM
danielbaker said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 12:49AM
dagamer34 said...
They did. It's called Pwnage Project. Confirmed to be working with firmware 2.0.
http://iphone-dev.org/news:pwnage
3-23-2008 @ 12:48AM
David Chartier said...
Yes, in fact that was reported a week or so ago.
3-23-2008 @ 12:52AM
danielbaker said...
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
3-23-2008 @ 11:05AM
Stephen.4 said...
Ahh maybe ZiPhone for unlocking, as it is confirmed to work too.
3-23-2008 @ 12:54AM
Luke James said...
the number of reviews makes this seem a little fishy to me.
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3-23-2008 @ 1:29AM
RonTo said...
Indeed. I thought the same thing. I feel like I should call "Shenanigans" or something.
3-23-2008 @ 1:01AM
Brandon said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 1:50AM
Aaron said...
agreed with Luke James...thats a ton of reviews for something that hasn't been released to public yet.
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3-23-2008 @ 3:06AM
aaron Alexander said...
i posted the pics, its real.. why would i lie?
www.monsterandfriends.com owns! :P
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3-23-2008 @ 3:26AM
Jon said...
I smell Photoshop...
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3-23-2008 @ 4:32AM
Max Goedjen said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 4:33AM
Max Goedjen said...
Excuse me, UITableViewCell (still not thinking in Cocoa Touch yet :P)
3-23-2008 @ 4:36AM
David said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 4:39AM
David said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 6:44AM
Think Adrian said...
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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3-23-2008 @ 7:59AM
ars_workerbee said...
> 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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3-23-2008 @ 8:09AM
trvs said...
such an obvious fake. embarrassing that you guys even posted it.
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