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This application for the iPhone (and iPod touch) costs $1,000 and does nothing but put a rotating red gem on the screen.
The name of the app is I Am Rich, and it’s developed by Armin Heinrich.
It's all about distinction!
Apple’s iPhone App Store is now live. To access it, download iTunes 7.7. Once iTunes has upgraded, you can access the App Store.
You can “get apps” on iTunes now, but you’ll need the iPhone 2.0 software to actually use them on the iPhone, which isn’t yet available.
There are 27 pages of applications currently available. At first glance, there are very few non-English applications. Another interesting trend - a lot of books are listed as applications, most for $0.99.
According to Pinch Media, the App Store had 552 applications at launch. 135 of these apps are free, while the remaining 417 range in price from $0.99 to $69.99, with the vast majority ranging between $0.99 and $9.99.
Further cementing Google Maps Mobile as one of the most useful free mobile applications ever, Google has added Voice search to its repertoire. It’s an experimental feature at this point, so it’s only on select handsets; if you’re using a Blackberry Pearl 8110, 8120, or 8130 - go update!
The new feature seems pretty easy to use: hold the left soft key, say your search, release the left soft key, and off it goes. It utilizes the same speech recognition engine used by 1-800-GOOG-411. Still, typing still works fine, allowing you to fall back on your thumbs be it that your environment just doesn’t mesh well with voice recognition.
While I’d be a bit surprised to see this feature make it into the generalized J2ME version of the application, we’ll probably see it to roll out to other big-name platforms as Google works out the kinks.
Pearl users can grab the update at http://www.google.com/gmm