First iOS 10 Apps Start Hitting the App Store

[JM]

I don't know about you guys, but once iOS 10 reaches widespread adoption, I'm going to be sending every iMessage with fireworks and disappearing ink. #innovat-ohnevermind

Honey, that dress makes you look FAT! [BOOOOOOOOM!]

I got dressed this morning [Confetti!]

 

[KingSpud]

Anyone know what time iOS 10 upgrade is supposed to go live?

1:00pm Eastern

 

[kirky29]

Remember when MSN had games to play with your fellow MSN?
Those were the days...

Yeah, remember that annoying 'knock knock' hand in MSN to get someones attention? This kinda feels like that lol.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Here we go.

 

[smacrumon]

Don't get your hopes up. I'm currently writing an app that translates all text into Morse Code. With fart noises.

Interesting. Who is your target market?

 

[JM]

One should understand this is a privilege to play this game on an iPhone.

Loser gets their phone wiped.

 

[keysofanxiety]

Yeah, remember that annoying 'knock knock' hand in MSN to get someones attention? This kinda feels like that lol.

Don't forget the 'nudge'.

Mind you, playing bowling was amazing.

 

[MacsRgr8]

The app store is slowly turning adults into infants.
Surely the CPU power of iPhone today could be put to better use.

That's starting to be a point, isn't it..?
When do you really need the power of a A10 in a phone nowadays? Sure, faster is better etc. and it sets up a ton of possibilities, but it seems that power isn't used much by many apps ATM.

 

[Hanzu Lao]

Don't get your hopes up. I'm currently writing an app that translates all text into Morse Code. With fart noises.

id actually buy that.

 

[JM]

Actually this is great. My girlfriend and I use this technique to make decisions at times. Now when we're both at work we can decide who's word is last on what's for dinner or what we're doing on the weekend.

You should look into keysofanxiety's farting app with Morse code. That will really boost relationship levels.

 

[scwinsett]

So we have a $750 smartphone in order to play rock, paper, scissors. Ugh.

Yes. Your $750 smartphone is good for nothing else but this one novelty.

 

[bcroft686]

 

[Apple_Robert]

The app store is slowly turning adults into infants.
Surely the CPU power of iPhone today could be put to better use.

What is infantile about developers creating apps, in hopes that they can gain a paid following with some of the iPhone users?

Just because some adults may use apps that you would find demeaning etc. that doesn't necessarily mean said adults are infantile.

There is nothing stopping you from using the iPhone to its fullest extent, given all that is available in the app store.

 

[JM]

Yes. Your $750 smartphone is good for nothing else but this one novelty.

Pretty much. What a waste of money.

 

[blacktape242]

its funny the only thing i use the app store is for updates really. i never browse for new things.

 

[coolfactor]

I know there are many here who consider the additions to Messages to be a bit of a gimmick. I was much in the same boat when watching the keynote.

However in retrospect, this is absolutely massive. iMessage is already a great application — essentially free texts/MMS/videos — but allowing third-party apps is going to be utterly huge and will really lock people into the ecosystem.

Yup, apps like Viber and WhatsApp will feel like "closed platform" chat apps after this. I just hope that sticker developers keep reasonable prices. Once Viber increased sticker prices above $0.99, I stopped buying. #VoteWithYourWallet

 

[CarlJ]

Don't get your hopes up. I'm currently writing an app that translates all text into Morse Code. With fart noises.

Hmm, but do you use the fart noises for the actual morse code, or do you use more traditional electronic beeps, with the fart noises as more of an ambient background?

 

[gkarris]

Ahead of the official launch of iOS 10 tomorrow, apps designed for the new operating system update have started hitting the iOS App Store, including those that will be available in the Messages App Store.

Rock-Paper-Scissors [Direct Link], for example, a Messages app that allows two people to play a classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors right in Messages, is now in the App Store. It is not, however, showing up in the dedicated Messages App Store, which will presumably launch tomorrow. Other apps for Messages, like Snappy Browser, are also starting to become available.

$700 phones for this....

You're kidding, right?

 

[coolfactor]

The app store is slowly turning adults into infants.
Surely the CPU power of iPhone today could be put to better use.

Here's the bonus point — you don't need to install or use anything that you don't want. It's your device.

 

[mildocjr]

Rainbows and glitter need massive processing power. Everyone knows this.

So does all of the tracking that occurs on an Android phone which is why they were first to get a quad-core processor.

 

[CarlJ]

... with no iOS 10! Upside down cake.

I hear they're working on an iOS 10. With any luck we should hear more about it some day soon.

 

[keysofanxiety]

Hmm, but do you use the fart noises for the actual morse code

That's exactly it. I just need a name for the app. Any ideas?

 

[JM]

Hmm, but do you use the fart noises for the actual morse code, or do you use more traditional electronic beeps, with the fart noises as more of an ambient background?

I would hope that for a cellphone of Apple's caliber, each letter would have a distinct fart sound, personally recorded with care and with respect to the artists that make iPhone great.

 

[CarlJ]

its funny the only thing i use the app store is for updates really. i never browse for new things.

I never browse the App Store, but I often come across reviews for interesting apps out on the web, and click links that take me to the corresponding page in the App Store. App "discovery" in the App Store still isn't what it should be.

 

[Michael Goff]

I love how the first thing MR posters do when confronted with mindless fun is turn their nose and act like they're above it.