iPhone App Store

The iPhone App Store has arrived.  It requires iTunes 7.7, and the interface, while a lot is left to be desired, is very simple and easy -- a breakthrough in mobile applications industry.  You buy apps just the way you buy songs.  People will get it.  One click, and it's downloaded to your iTunes.  Sync your phone, and you're set to go.

Currently there are 27 pages of applications currently available. A huge number of apps are games - not my forte so I can't really talk about their quality.  Also a lot of books are listed as applications, and a bunch of language tools (translations, phrasebook, etc).  And then there's a host of various types of Applications.  "135 of these apps are free, while the remaining 417 range in price from $0.99 to $69.99, with the vast majority ranging between $0.99 and $9.99."

Read more at TechCrunch's iPhone App Store Has Launched (Updated).

I browsed through the apps and aside from a couple of location-based applications such as Loopt and Whrrl which we already knew about I can't say I saw anything that would really catch my attention - but hey, this is the first day this thing is live.  Think of PCs before word processors.   There will be a storm coming.