Whoops, there it is… the (useless) iPhone app store

Written on July 10, 2008 – 12:17 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

To stimulate the iPhone craze to grow to absolute bizarre proportions, Apple has just launched the iPhone app store. While I’m typing this, thousands of other bloggers are doing the same. Well what the hell, almost everybody loves the shiny object, so here it is.

Download iTunes 7.7 and access the store here. Then you can browse the 27 pages of iPhone apps, which are absolutely useless for some hours until the iPhone becomes available in New Zealand stores.

By the way, my dear Belgian readers, I feel really sorry for you guys, having to pay as much as 525 euros for the 8GB iPhone and 615 euros for the 16GB. I hope for you that they’ll soon fix that law and allow subsidized phones.

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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By thomas on Jul 10, 2008

check this link for belgium subsidized iphones
http://iphone3g.mobistar.be/nl/formules.cfm

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By thomas on Jul 10, 2008

okok, not subsidized

but ok prizes for the plans.

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By Robin Wauters on Jul 10, 2008

Note that Mobistar (exclusive distributor of the iPhone in Belgium) claims the high price for the device compensates the fact that they don’t lock you in to their network. You’re free to change operator as you please.

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By Reinier on Jul 10, 2008

Not entirely useless as you can upgrade you’re iPhone 1.0 software to 2.0 and actually use all the software on your iPhone 2G. At least, if you have an unhacked iPhone ;-)

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By Justin Halsall on Jul 10, 2008

wow, I haven’t seen anything that I could use/enjoy. It is truely useless

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By Lisa on Jul 10, 2008

“bizarre proportions” - amazing.

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