The App Store is Live!

Early reports via Google Reader advised a certain little birdie that iTunes 7.7 was available for download. Not willing to leave the snuggle-snuggle comfort of her bed before she absolutely had to (terrible night - the teeth were grinding and the stomach was churning and wakey-wakey at least three times before the dawn's early light), the little birdie only had time to run the updates on the MBP and the MacPro via Screen Share before leaving the safe haven and venturing out into the harsh world this morning.


Given the utterly wonky performance of iTunes 7.X on her PoS Dell, the little birdie thought it best to delete the existing software and reinstall 7.7 de novo. Which went flawlessly.

For the first time in months, she was able to launch iTunes with a single click - instead of trying and retrying and using the run command. (Oh noes! Gasp of horror!)

First thing this little AppleSlut did was try to find the new App Store. And to her immediate devastation, it was nowhere to be found. But, Google Reader to the rescue yet again - a brief snippet of an entry about searching for an app would reveal the App Store for the faithful. And lo, the Temple of Steve was revealed!



A search for "Super Monkey Ball" returned a few results, including the requested application. Going to the application revealed a live breadcrumb trail back to the App Store. A second look through the voluminous Apple-related blog entries in Google Reader disclosed a post on the Apple Phone Show Blog by the ever-wonderful and ever-snarky Mr. Scott Bourne, with a direct link to the App Store.

There are 27 pages of iPhone applications - free and paid, and at 21 apps per page, that is 567 applications on Day -1. Wow. There are also 7 pages of free apps - 147 for the math-impaired (and maybe this app can help with that problem).

Looking through the App Store, the AppleSlut came to realize that she may need to buy a new iPhone before 3G is rolled out here in cloud-cuckoo land. 8 gb is not a lot of space anymore, with all this fun stuff waiting for her.