Apple's App Store Turns Six, Developers Discount Apps in Celebration

[Intelligent]

Nice! Congratulations App Store!! lol

 

[bpcookson]

There is no wrong. But if you want a comparison, I have 115 apps on the phone. And I just removed a whole bunch this week.

I had just deleted a few myself, maybe a dozen, and then counted the remainder: 142. I bet I've downloaded over 10 times that many since my first iPhone though.

Anyway, go check out Devil's Attorney. That game is awesome.

 

[576316]

Can't recommend The Room 2 enough. Such a beautiful and amazing puzzle game.

 

[SandPebble]

I don't see anything I need.

 

[ActionableMango]

What was the first developer app in the app store???

The App Store opened with 500 apps, so there is no single first app in the store.

 

[D.T.]

I’ve been wanting to score Monument Valley, good timing!

Can't recommend The Room 2 enough. Such a beautiful and amazing puzzle game.

Same here, both The Room 1 and 2 are excellent.

We played them over AirPlay (iPad to big TV), while just relaxing in the family room - it’s not 2 player per se, but it’s easy for two people to participate (with one person “driving”). If you experience a little latency, it’s not really an issue with this style game.

 

[Joshsand]

Apps price

Just looked at 'drafts for iPad' in my NZ store and its NZ$6.99 !!!!

Its weird NZ /USA exchange rate is .88 which would make its normal price of $4.99 at NZ$5.67.
So no discounts and I have to pay 12% extra to boot.
How is it I get the JOY of being ripped off.
ALSO - I live closer to China Than USA and I have to pay 10-20% more for iPads/ iPhones.
If I could understand this then perhaps I could be an Apple exec.

 

[Tech198]

App Store is just a baby...

A big one at that.

oh, The Room 2, i could of payed this price :?

 

[mattlongman]

with the July 11 introduction of iOS 2.0.

I'm sorry, I've no idea what iOS 2 is. That's not an OS ever released by Apple.

OHHHHH, you mean iPhone OS 2!!!

/morningpedanticism

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

According to app tracking site AppShopper, 1.7 million total apps have been approved

Yeah, and 99.9% of them are crap.

 

[RightMACatU]

Six!
Where's the donkey and piñata? 😀

 

[JAT]

What?

He said, the lack of speakers on 1G iPod Touches would have made noisy apps aimed at titillating a crowd pointless.

 

[Michael Goff]

He said, the lack of speakers on 1G iPod Touches would have made noisy apps aimed at titillating a crowd pointless.

The first generation iPod touch lacks speakers?

 

[JAT]

The first generation iPod touch lacks speakers?

It has a headphone jack. And I think it might be able to beep, like a Windows PC. The kids lost mine or I could go check.

For comparison, no iPod has speakers except later Touches.

 

[Michael Goff]

It has a headphone jack. And I think it might be able to beep, like a Windows PC. The kids lost mine or I could go check.

For comparison, no iPod has speakers except later Touches.

That was not the world's best design choice. :\

 

[JAT]

That was not the world's best design choice. :\

Probably why current models are different. I believe there was much discussion about 'no speaker' at the time.

 

[MacBH928]

Many of those apps need to be cleared out and deleted. How about sharing apps that are still in active development. I have apps from the early days that still show up that haven't been updated in years. These are inflated numbers.

I agree there are apps not updated from 3 years ago or more!

But to be honest, many of them still work fine.

 

[firewood]

But to be honest, many of them still work fine.

I have several iPhone apps from 2008 that still run on my A7/Retina iPad Mini. Some developers are gone, but I still have app backups on my Mac (over 800 apps in total today).

 

[Jessica Lares]

PSA:

Editorial > Drafts

Taskpaper support AND universal.

I have and use both though. 😛

Might pick up Monument Valley again (I played it on Android and loved it).