Well, maybe not, but there could be thousands of applications immediately for sale on the App Store, which launches 11 July - though this does depend on just how quickly Apple can process and vet apps recently submitted for the first tranche.
Business Week suggests (hints, intimates) as many as 4,000 apps could be in the cut, making the claim in a report which takes a birds-eye view of what's to come, including applications for productivity, health, remote working, customer relationship management and more.
Salesforce VP, Chuck Dietrich says: “The iPhone and its applications will have huge ramifications for how people conduct business. The ability to run sophisticated applications on a handheld will change how people conduct life and business.”
This news emerges as the first images of the App Store have surfaced within the 'What's New' video published by Apple yesterday.
As displayed, the App Store will let users group applications by the following criteria:
- Featured
- Categories
- Top 25
- Search
- Downloading
- New/What's Hot
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Bring the apps! This is yet
Bring the apps! This is yet another way the iPhone sets itself apart from the rest of the smart phone wannabes. Jobs' genius never stops.
4000K?
4000 apps? That's hard to believe, considering there wasn't that many available when the original iP#9hone was hacked...
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Read the article!
Hey man, check your facts. The article states :
IMvista's application is just one of the 4,000 applications being developed specifically to run on the iPhone (BusinessWeek.com, 6/9/08). These are part of a wave of so-called native applications, meaning they're designed to run directly on the phone, as opposed to being downloaded onto the phone from a Web browser. The first of these programs becomes available by mid-July, around the time the new iPhone 3G hits store shelves.
Thats NOT 4000K available right away!
You're right. Because 4000K
You're right. Because 4000K is not 4000! You mean 4k. Semantics aside, I agree that there probably won't be 4000 apps available on the first day. I don't think Apple can sort through 4000 applications in this limited amount of time.
so I clicked on the article
so I clicked on the article specifically because my eyes widened at the thought of 4,000 apps IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. Way to bait and switch me 9to5, one more like that and I'm ditching you from my RSS...
The reference is to 4000
The reference is to 4000 developers who were accepted. Not to 4000 apps to be available initialy.
ok but 4.000 developer for be
ok but 4.000 developer for be accepted at least submitted ONE app no?
So ONE app multiply 4K developer... = 4.000 apps :P
Given the fact that apple
Given the fact that apple only opened up the App store for submissions about two weeks ago, I find it highly unlikely that so many apps will be available at launch. Apple may have a large team on the App store, but I guess that submitting an App will be a lot more complicated than just adding a song to the iTunes store.
For a start, they're going to rigourously want to test it and inspect the code to make sure you're not doing anything that might make the iPhone unstable - reading through the source of a large application may take several hours! On top of that, I imagine that Apple may impose a quality control on top of this to make sure that only applications that feel polished enough make it onto the store. Finally, I think that Apple may simply refuse some submitted content if they don't think it's up to scratch or clashes with their own interests.
While I think it's likely that big names, like Sega and EA would have been able to submit their Apps in advance of this time - I don't think it's at all likely that Apple could test 4000 applications in around 3 weeks, even with a large team.
I think the likely number of apps at launch is going to be fewer than 500.
I do agree though that there are in excess of 4000 developers currently working on the iPhone, though many of these might be hobbyists who will never release a finished application, and just wanted to tinker with the SDK.
It's possible that there will be 4000 Apps by the end of the year, and doubtless there will be 10,000 by the end of 2009.
9to5 Mac, I think you ought to do your research a little better or put a little more thought into these eye-catching headlines.
I already have the 2.0 software....
And I was wondering if the app store is going to lauch along side the iPhone 3G, or if maybe it would be out a few days early. The new calculator is nice, and all, and the email too, but without mobile me, I don't have much to do, except wait for the app store.