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iTunes App Store open for business, with 500+ apps for download
Apple opened the iTunes App Store today, just ahead of the Friday release of the iPhone 3G. The phone is already out in some parts of the word -- lucky Aussies and New Zealanders! -- but while North America is waiting, there's the iPhone 2.0 firmware update and a new version of iTunes to play with. If you install these updates, you don't have to wait for a new iPhone before you start buying apps! iPod Touch users, however, will apparently have to wait until tomorrow for the firmware update, which will cost $9.95 -- compared to a free update for the iPhone.
What about the apps themselves? Well, for starters, there are over 500 of them, and 25% of those are free. So far, games are leading the pack, with Sega's much-hyped Super Monkey Ball as the most downloaded app. Other hot games in the Top 10 are Enigmo, Cro-Mag Rally and Bejeweled 2. Apart from games, the most popular download thus far is OmniFocus, the powerful productivity app from Omni Group, coming in at #4.

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mike said 2:00AM on 7-11-2008
cool you guys pay for omnifocus while intelliscreen is running smoothly on my itouch
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John said 4:54PM on 7-17-2008
Completely dissimilar applications, but... ok... ?
I'm pretty sure that Omnifocus isn't available for jailbroken iPhones/touches.
Not to mention that I found Intelliscreen's layout tool abysmal. I could *not* shrink anything and get it to line up correctly at all.
James said 4:30PM on 7-11-2008
You guys enjoy your walled garden. I'll be over here writing my own apps (with free tools) and enjoying thousands and thousands of existing ones on my Windows Mobile phone.
Ooh, you guys have Bejeweled 2? The one I got three years ago? Sweet.
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Mikael said 3:33PM on 7-12-2008
Am I the only one who cant use the UK AppStore? Every time I try to download apps, either through the iPhone or iTunes I get an error that "iTunes can't process payments at the moment, please try again in a moment". It's been like this for the past 24 hrs now..
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David said 5:09PM on 7-12-2008
Uhhh,can download squad please quit the apple ass kissing for maybe a week?Seeing as how the majority of the world still runs on Windows.Thanks.
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