Happy 1st Anniversary, App Store!
What a difference a year makes. Apple has a promo on the store (yes, iTunes link ahoy) with their gushing congratulations to themselves and the App Store for the 1-year anniversary of Cupertino's bold experiment. Since the launch one year ago, we've seen over 50,000 apps hit the store (and only a fractional percent are fart apps), dozens of apps rejected for spurious reasons or no reason at all, a couple of apps approved that never should have seen the light of day, and well over a billion downloads. Would McDonald's have grown so fast if they served virtual hamburgers?
In honor of this event I'm sharing a list of the very first apps I put on my secondhand 1st-generation iPhone. Yes, I was a little late to the party (and only signed up with AT&T for the 3GS almost a year later), but then, Apple was a little late to the SDK, weren't they? Remember when web apps were the thing? Yeah, me either.
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My first apps (some of which are no longer available in the store) on a 1st-gen iPhone:
AOL Radio, BJ Run Lite, BubbleWrap, Cube Runner, Dizzy Bee Free, Evernote, Facebook, Hangman, Hanoi, iChing, Instapaper, iSaber, iTarot, Labyrinth LE, MiGhtyDocs, Moonlight Mahjong, Pandora, Remote, Scribble, Shakespeare, Showtimes, vSnax, Tap Tap Revenge, TicTacToe, Truveo, Twitteriffic, VoiceNotes.
Apps still on my 3GS iPhone today:
AOL Radio, Dizzy Bee (full version), Evernote, Facebook, Hanoi, iSaber, MiGhtyDocs, Pandora, Remote, Twitteriffic.
