Developers race to get ready for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch App Store grand opening
Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 02:31 PM EST "The great scramble among software developers to write the first iPhone killer app is coming to a head," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune."The race began in earnest in March when Steve Jobs unfolded Apple’s 'iPhone software roadmap,' a two-part package comprised of a tool kit to help developers write programs for the iPhone and a venue in which to sell them — a variation on Apple’s iTunes music store model called the App Store," Elmer-DeWitt reports.
"Although the iPhone 3G is set to go on sale in nine days — at 8 a.m. Friday July 11 — Apple has still not announced when the software store will open. But on Wednesday it delivered a pretty broad hint: a midnight July 7 deadline for developers to submit their finished apps for the store’s grand opening," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "According to Apple, 25,000 people applied to be part of its iPhone developers program, of which 4,000 were admitted."
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My sadness that my iPhone will no longer be the best cellphone in existence is starting to be offset by my excitement for the 2.0 software and the App store. It will be like a whole new iPhone for free! Here's to hoping that I don't blow my next paycheck on apps and games.