Happy 1st Anniversary, App Store!

7/10/2009
AIM free edition- now own the paid version
Remote-from Apple
iBeer
7/12/2008
iPhone 2.0 Software update for iPod touch
Super Monkey Ball- huge let down
iPint
Cro-Mag Rally
eBay
Pandora Radio
CellSpin

My first app was MotionX-Poker.

Thanks for the tips and links. http://www.shopping-batteries.co.uk

The first lot of apps I put on my device were (all free!) - PhoneSaber, Flashlight, Remote, Scribble, Pocketpedia, Bible, iQuran, Google Mobile App, Holy Sword, FiatLux, Dice Bag, myLite, Light, Cube Runner, Break, iPint, Labyrinth Lite, Morocco, Sudoku (Free), and MixMeister Scratch.

Remaining on my device today: Light, Phonesaber (now called Lightsaber), and Remote.

Then I got Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D for AUD$13 and quickly realised I had to be smarter about which paid apps I paid for. I bought Apple's Texas Hold 'Em for AUD$6 and I am still playing it often now, so that was a good deal.

A couple of hundred dollars worth of App Store apps later (lots of $1 apps, most games on sale, but a few big titles for full price, like the great Sentinel and Sentinel 2 games, SW TFU, Asphalt 4, Lux DLX, and recently, Assassin's Creed) and I can say I am a very happy iPod Touch user and App Store buyer.

I have paid $3 for a coffee that was so disgusting I could not drink it, and I didn't bother asking for a refund. So to be able to get great-quality, moderate-length games for (AUD) $1.20 or $2.50 seems like an incredible bargain to me. Even if I only play the game for five minutes before deciding I don't like it, I think about that $3 undrinkable coffee, and I am not unhappy about the cost.

If there was one title I could hold up as epitomising everything that is good about the App Store, it would be the incomparable Pocket God. I got it at AUD$1.20 and it has been updated more than a dozen times since then, each time with a fun new mini-game to play with your islanders. The continual addition of added value to what was already a bargain makes me feel respected and appreciated by the developers, and makes Pocket God my number one recommendation for every iPod Touch and iPhone owner.

How dare they include Slingplayer in their birthday graphic. Slingplayer epitomizes everything WRONG with the app store!

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But congrats anyway!

i remember i was in beijing at the time when the iPhone 3G and App Store were out. people there didn't believe me and were surprised I was able to download apps without Installer (those were the days).

these were the apps I downloaded on launch date:
-AstroTilt (Beijing Subway love)
-BlocksClassic
-Free Translator
-Pandora
-Remote
-Facebook
-Shazam
-Units Convertor (replaced with Units shortly)
-Urbanspoon
-Tap Tap Revenge
-WeDict

With the exception of Units Convertor, they all remain. I find them all to be useful.

Not too many made the keeper list. Those are downloaded 1 year ago and still in use are:

iXpenseIt (using almost daily)
Holdem (on occasion when bored)
Shazam (when need to find out the song title)

Anybody else having issues downloading from the App Store. I keep timing out through iTunes and on the iPhone...

Isn't it "me neither" instead of "either"?