App Store available on June 27th?
During the keynote every time the App Store was mention people would say it was 'launching soon,' or that their apps would be 'available at launch.' No one mentioned a specific launch day. Apple might have let the cat out of the bag though. The image to the right was just snapped off of Apple's Australian iPod Touch page. It clearly stated that the App Store, and presumably the 2.0 firmware for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, will be available on June 27th. That contradicts the 'early July' timeline mentioned in the keynote.I know I speak for all iPhone/iPod touch users when I say: we wouldn't mind getting this firmware a little early, Apple.
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Sience June 27th is a week before the launch of the 3G it would make sense to launch it then to let developers fix problems and let more apps on the store BEFORE the new iPhone comes out. I love apple but I just wish they told their customers that buy their expensive products a little more.
June 24 2008 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan anyone else not find where it says this in the link? I've looked up and down the AU's iPod touch features page but can't find where it says App Store June 27th
Someone please link me to where it is or tell me where on the page it is located. Thanks.
I read somewhere that it had been taken down. One story said that the date could have originally been June 27th but was changed and that the Australian page was a mistake. Let's hope it was right though.
June 11 2008 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt was where it now says "Build iPod touch applications." :-p I was shocked when I found it, cause I knew it wasn't mentioned on the keynote.. I'm thinking they leaked it by mistake. New Zealand's Apple site also had it but thats gone too.
June 11 2008 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy question is:
With the App store starting in July (or June 27 maybe) - what is the future (if any) of Web-Apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch?
I have several home screens filled with Web Apps on my iPhone. I'm thinking that some of them I'd rather keep as Web Apps - since 8 and 16 GB iPhones can only hold so much....
Will Web Apps go "poof" in favor of App Store versions? Will anyone be able to really store that many apps on their iPhones?
Don't worry, these apps should not be too big. The actual executable is normally only a few kilobytes and the images in the Application, well, depends, but the full iPod Application (with everything, executable, images...) is about 1MB, so you don't have to worry too much about drive space.
June 11 2008 at 1:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs I said above, if the current applications for jailbroken phones is any indication of the size of the new apps, you are looking at maybe 1-5 mb for the largest of applications. Most current apps for the iPhone are under 1 mb. For example, Raging Thunder is a very graphically intense game for the iPhone, and only 1.3 mb in size.
You could still fit 200 apps at 5 mb a piece and only be taking up 1/8th or 1/6th of the iPhone's capacity. No sweat.
Web apps are pretty much dead, I know I never really used them myself. Any useful webapp (like a checklist, searching for cheapest gas in the area, etc.) can easily be converted to a very small (well under a mb) native application.
@lariosme - GPS is a physical thing in the 3G iPhone that the 1st Gen doesn't have, so the 2.0 software won't add GPS support to the 1st Gen.
@subgenius/vandy1997 - The App Store will act like the wireless music store on the iPhone/iPod Touch. When you buy an application on the iPhone, it will sync to iTunes, so you will have it on your computer. This means if you need to swap phones, it will be able to sync to your new phone. see http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/
@drpower - applications that exist at current for jailbroken phones aren't big, with the largest coming in at a few Megabytes. 8 gigs should be plenty.
Well, it can't launch after the 11th, and it would make sense to drop 2.0 ~ a week before the new phone comes so hte servers won't get hammered. Either way, it's within a month.
June 11 2008 at 11:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoes anyone know what the typical size of some of the apps will be? I'm was going to get the 16gig iPhone but wanted to be sure I have plenty of room for music, video, games and other new apps.
June 11 2008 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replynever mind. I could have swore I saw a 32 Gig iPhone the day of the keynote but don't see one on the website.
June 11 2008 at 11:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoes anybody know if games/apps will be tied to a specific iPhone (with a specific serial number)? That will not be acceptable if the phone needs to be exchanged or if we upgrade to a newer phone with more disk space. Also, will we be able to load the app onto only one iPhone - in case there is more than one iPhone in a household and more than one person syncs with iTunes. I'm assuming that nobody has that info yet, but it would be helpful if the editors would try to find out this info.
June 11 2008 at 10:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFairPlay isn't tied to a single computer or iPod. Rather, it's tied to your iTunes store login. (With, of course, a limit to the number of devices.)
I would hazard a guess that purchased apps will run on a number of iPhones/iPods that are synced with a single iTunes account. No guesses on how many that might be, but I'd assume at least a couple to accommodate families, husband/wife, etc.
Or maybe the restriction on number of devices is left up to the developer?
Updating to 2.0 will likely cause jailbroken iPhones to be restored back to 'normal'. If we don't want to loose those 3rd party apps we are currently running on our iPhones, were going to have and wait until someone cracks that update. Meaning we might have to wait a bit longer. I have one question: does the 2.0 update for 1st Gen iPhones include GPS, or is that a whole different thing that only the 3G iPhone will be able to do?
June 11 2008 at 10:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyUse PWNAGE/WinPWN. Both crack 2.0 perfectly fine.
June 11 2008 at 3:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo here's what I wanna know - Are those of us with jailbroken iPhones going to have to restore them to be able to use the App store?
June 11 2008 at 9:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyQuite likely, but no telling until its available.
June 11 2008 at 10:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnother question...If I buy apps for my 1st gen iPhone, will I have to repurchase them when I upgrade to the iPhone 3G?
Are the FairPlay restrictions the same as for Music. Can I buy a game and sync it to my iPhone and my wife's?
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