Steve Jobs told USA Today that the Apple App Store will launch with "more than 500" applications Thursday night for the iPhone and iPod touch. Of these, 25% will be free and 90% (of those for sale) will cost $9.99 or less. "This is the biggest launch of my career," said Jobs. Analyst Tim Bajarin at Creative Strategies said, "When IBM introduced the PC, it was good, but it didn't take off until people started discovering the software." It's these apps then, he adds, that will "dramatically differentiates the iPhone" from Treos and BlackBerrys. Indeed, while consumers are focused on the launch of the iPhone 3G device, it's the App Store which has analysts in such a tizzy.
Update: The New York Times
reports that 1/3 of all first-wave applications will be games. We also corrected the Bajarin misquote above.
[Thanks, Matt and Chris Z.]
posted July 10th 2008 1:56AM
Nice. :)
June 27th? ughh...whatever it's iPhone crap anyways.
Oh, now you change the picture on me so my comment makes no sense? nice one Engadget.
Damn trolls. If you hate iPhones, stop posting in news stories about them.
It's like you hating mustard on sandwiches so you wait in front of the line at a McDonald's and when you see someone order something with mustard, your eyes widen and you're like, "OMFG YOU MUSTARD N00B. WHATEVER. YOU'RE FAT."
haha yeah mine doesn't make sense with the different pic too. well, kinda.
I don't hate..im just mad how they changed the picture on me, so it made my comment obsolete, and plus im just fed up with too many Apple/iPhone posts..Oh no Jobs wipes his ass with toilet paper..oh no we did not know..this is major news!
... but you just had to rush in here and comment.
You just don't get it, do you bud? The more you comment on these posts the better it is for these posts. If you truly hate it, the best thing you can do is not comment.
You know I'd recommend checking software update for new versions of iTunes every so often because they are obviously going to release a new version as well as 2.0. And also if you look closely at the guided tour of the iPhone 3G you can see an "application" tab on iTunes that goes along with the Music, Movies, T.V. shows. etc on the left side. So that gives a new version of iTunes away!
WAIT! JOBS WIPED HIS ASS, OMG THIS IS BIG, I MEAN BOMBSHELL LITERALLY!
Apps are nice... but I think firmware 2.0 might help.
The iPhone Firmware 2.0 is ok but its lack of multitasking continues to make the iPhone a "dumb-phone" by most measures.
Surely to gain the status of smartphone it needs to overcome this limitation.
Applications are relatively easy to write but publishing them is not that trivial. It will be interesting to see what people have written.
Sorry, I didn't follow you on that multitasking thing because while i was reading your comments, i was also talking to my friend and writing notes down, while listing to my music... all on my iphone.
You we talking to your friend and listening to music at the same time, you must not be a very good friend.
Low rank if you must but go seki is right, a simple s60-ish task switcher would make the iphone/itouch quite ultimate, at the moment that's all that's lacking in it for me (yes I have an iTouch with about 8 pages of apps as well as an N95 so i think i'm allowed to say this). A simple holding down of the home button for a second which brought up a little window with apps is so much better than having to go back to the home screen during an IM chat, browse in safari, go back home to notes, back home to calendar, back home to IM. Oh, and cross system copy and paste would be lovely.
So 25% are free but 90% cost 9.99 or less? Hows that work out?
Free < $0.99
free is less than $9.99
$0 is less than $9.99.
Iz you shittin me? When'd that happen?
25% of 100% are free...
90% of the leftover 75% will cost lest than $9.99
Does this make better sense?
25% of the 500 apps are free. Of the remaining 75%, 90% is less then 10 bucks
shaner, thats still not what it means. 25% of all are free, but 90% of all are under 9.99. give it a second, it'll hit you
From the article
"Jobs says 25% of the apps will be free, and 90% of the ones for sale will be $9.99 or less."
The key to understanding is the "ones for sale" part
"Interesting news has come out of a survey of developers that are attending the WWDC event in San Francisco. According to the survey, up to 70% of the developers surveyed said that their application would not cost you a penny."
http://www.iphonebuzz.com/wwdc-survey-up-to-70-of-iphone-apps-will-be-free-122738.php
If it sounds to good to be true...
out of all apps, 90% of them are less than $9.99. 10% is over $9.99. out of the 90 percent under $9.99, 25% of those are free.
Everything abou the launch is so confusing. the image says "June 27th", and now theres rumors that 2.0 will be launching today (July 10th) instead of Jult 11th. JUST GIVE ME 2.0!!!
25% are free, 90% are $9.99 or less.
25 + 90 = 115%?
uh.
0 < $9.99
I'm going to go ahead and let you think real hard about that.
Uh, "$9.99 or less" would include free, genius.
25% Free
65% $0.01 to $9.99
10% $10 or more
90% includes the free apps, so basically, it's 65% that's less than 9.99 but greater than (and not equal to) $0.
I think that 90% includes the 25% free because free is less then ten bucks. So you can't merge those two percentages. They are separate statements :)
I think you are thinking too hard. Engadget probably put two statements together. 25% of all Apps are free, and out of the 75% that aren't free 90% of those are $9.99 or less.
lol for those who got it right you are smart ... for those who need to go back to english to learn to read CAREFULLY
"25% will be free and 90% (of those for sale) will cost $9.99 or less."
let me break it down
25% will be free
and
90% (of those for sale) will cost $9.99 or less
__________________________________________
25% X 500 apps = 125 apps FREE!!!!!
500 - 125 = 375 apps remain
90% X 375 = 337.5 apps < or = to $9.99
remainder of 37.5 app's price = (insert variable)
enjoy =]
I going to make this "CLEAR".
500 apps on the store.
125 of them are FREE!
338 of them will cost $9.99 or less.
37 of them will cost over $9.99.
///NOW QUIT YOUR MOANING///
HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE FROM EUROPE YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN CAUSE IF AN APP ON THE US STORE COSTS $9.99 IT'S LIKELY TO COST €9.99 THERE (HERE), WHICH WORKS OUT AT $15.68
A.K.A. Apple tax.
I bet there are going to be some killer apps.
I'm dying already.
Do you work for Apple or are you restating the obvious on every platform out there?
125 free apps? How am I supposed to fit all of those on my phone?
lol, that's why they let you have 8 springboards! Skim pickins
Sweet, I was hoping a lot of them would be free, I heard rumors it's being released like 9:00 AM Thursday (today in my time est). Anyone know for sure? But I just hope I don't end up paying for apps I used to get for free (I'm jailbroken 1.1.4) Oh and one more questions do you think you can use iTunes music store credit for buying games and apps? Yes, right?
i believe the 25% that are free would also fall under costing $9.99 or less, no?
Yes, but I think what the writer means is that apps that will cost an amount of money...... 90% are $9.99 or less.
Free < n > $100
So will there be any pit-falls to upgrading to the 2.0 software? I mean, is it going to brick my unlocked phone?
It wont brick your unlocked phone. It will however lock it back up, so you will need to bypass activation, and then jailbreak and unlock. This of course won't happen till someone creates a new app that supports 2.0. I would avoid ZiPhone so look for the iLiberty+ folks to do the app.
This is likely the biggest news story of the year—that is, that Apple is launching the App Store. I think it's pretty clear by now that the iPhone 3G was simply an updated iPhone 1.0.
The app store will immediately make this into more than a phone; it's going to be a mobile computer. Finally I and many others will be able to leave our laptops behind on short trips and such, and still remain perfectly productive. Some of the apps will be so revolutionary in what they will allow us to do that I think within 5 years from now, people will wonder how they lived without all these things in their pockets!
I'm currently working on an iPhone App of my own, but I wouldn't have the foggiest about making an app for any other phone on the market—not even the fabled 'instinct'. The App store is a more important feature than 'copy and paste,' than 3G, than GPS, than a touch screen, etc.
The fact that people and companies will be able to publish iPhone apps on a dime will make this thing revolutionary!
i agree with the whole leaving laptops behind on short trips. Of course, i have to bring my Airport Express, just in case.
really? how are you going to type a word document with a soft keyboard? if you want a near-laptop replacement, get the Xperia X1, with higher res screen and physical keyboard. The iPhone is good, it's just not really a business phone.
computer? really? how is it going to cut/copy and paste?
(someone was bound to bring up cut/copy and paste...lol)
@Brian - 35% are $10 or more.
FAIL
as it has been stated many times free< $9.99 therefore the free ones are part of the 90% so 10% are $10+