A Flood of Apple Apps
Yesterday at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs discussed what he is calling “iPhone 2.0,” as well as a slew of new applications and services. The success of the iPhone has been huge for Apple since the device launched a little less than a year ago, but Jobs is pushing for more. More countries. More users. More applications. More developers. And yesterday he announced the 3G iPhone.
Scheduled to hit shelves July 11, the latest iPhone will run on AT&T’s 3G network, and promises faster data service for all of the new apps being developed using the iPhone SDK (20 in total so far, according to Jobs), including joint efforts with the Associated Press, TypePad, MLB.com and eBay. Good thing, too, because a remarkable 80% of iPhone users use 10 or more features, though the new applications (soon available through the iPhone App Store) can only be used one at a time. And starting at only $199 for the 8-gigabyte model, Jobs is also banking on a significant bump in new iPhone customers - adding to the already 6 million users this device boasts.
No doubt that while Apple is keeping its fingers crossed for this surge of new iPhone users, AT&T crossing its fingers in hopes that its 3G network can handle the flood, and not have a repeat of its initial iPhone launch on EDGE last year.
