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Apple App Store

Launched in July 2008, Apple's App Store is an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch which serves as a marketplace for other applications approved by Apple. Although the App Store provides software specifically for those devices, it is still possible to browse it on a computer via iTunes. These applications ("apps") typically showcase the touchscreen and/or accelerometer (motion sensing) capability, and range from utilities like GPS mapping, media features like specialized or global news feeds, and entertainment like eBooks and games. Some online utilities (notably eBay, Facebook, Google, and Twitter) create iPhone friendly versions of themselves and distribute them as apps through the App Store. In the Apple Store's first two months, Apple reported over 100 million downloads.

Apps are all developed with Apple's proprietary iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) and are published by Apple. The global availability of the SDK has ensured that the store would support the work of third party developers, and Apple grants the party that sells them the app 70% of the profits (though many of the most popular apps are free). As of January 2009, there are over 15,000 third party apps available. Developers for other mobile device software, namely Palm and Google with the G1, have since followed suit with their own third-party-accessible app stores.

 

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