The App Store cometh

It's the not-so-secret weapon that turns the 3G iPhone into a utility powerhouse. It's the App Store, and Apple unveiled it early Friday morning — or late Thursday night, if you happened to have an iPhone by then, which means that those who queued up in Sydney's chilly climes outside the Optus store could jump right in straight away. That also applied to those who had early access to the iPhone. I fit into that category, and spent some time perusing the App store at length on an iPhone 3G. Canny AMW forumites also spotted at around the same time that the iTunes 7.7 (which came through as an update) gave access to the Application store, albeit only for browsing purposes initially.