"App Store" for iPhone...where the freeware should have been.

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Larry - 07 Mar 2008 02:18 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20080306/tc_macworld/appstorewilldistribut
eiphonesoftware;_ylt=AjTN6jW.dkXwEQA0svYz.Dsh2.cA

If you think Jobs is gonna let you run your software on your iPhone WebTV,
think again.....

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday demonstrated a new "App Store," an
application iPhone users will be able to use to download software that
third-party developers create for the iPhone using Apple's recently-
introduced Software Development Kit (SDK). The new software will be
delivered in late June, according to Jobs, though a beta release is being
made available today."

The keyword is "Store".....as in pay, pay, pay....

Of course, the developers have to pay, too.

"The SDK itself is available for free. Developers can also run a simulator
on their Macs. A $99 fee is incurred for developers who want to join
Apple's new iPhone Developer Program."

You'll be paying their fees and expenses at your App Store, of course.

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Tinman - 07 Mar 2008 03:10 GMT

> You'll be paying their fees and expenses at your App Store, of course.

And Larry doesn't know what day it is. Doesn't know who Jesus was or what
praying is.

How can he be saved?

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Tim Smith - 07 Mar 2008 05:09 GMT

> The keyword is "Store".....as in pay, pay, pay....

I've only been reading this group a few months, so I'm curious. Has
Larry *ever* gotten anything right the first time?

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4phun - 07 Mar 2008 07:50 GMT

> In article <Xns9A59D96EBBBF4noonehome...@208.49.80.253>,
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> --Tim Smith

I am convinced that it is the coffee Larry drinks at Waffle House that
makes for such mental excursions into fantasy.

BTW I have a single free iPhone app that knocks the socks off people
who look at the iPhone in the game category. It is part of the open
source iPhysics package called iPinBall. That game not only reproduces
the feel of a pinball machine with voice, sound and action but with
more fidelity and smoothness than a similar one on a high end PC.There
is nothing like it on any other cell phone.

The whole iPhysics package for the iPhone is rather addictive.

Did you notice that Apple is OK with VOIP over WiFi but not cellular.
Apple will support VOIP on the iPhone in 2.0 if people want to write
apps using VOIP?

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Jeffrey Kaplan - 07 Mar 2008 06:45 GMT

Previously on alt.cellular.attws, Larry said:

> "Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday demonstrated a new "App Store," an
> application iPhone users will be able to use to download software that
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> Of course, the developers have to pay, too.

Fine by me. Why? Because free software does not equal good software.
Some freeware is good, but most of it is crap, no matter what platform
it's for.

If the controls you imply are going to be real, and if it also means
that Apple is going to be imposing strict quality controls on said
software, then it's more than fine by me. Such requirements will keep
out the idiots who think they can program but wouldn't know a debugger
from a can of Raid.

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