The Apple App Store

Quite exciting that Apple has injected quite a jolt into the software development community vein by opening up the iPhone API and App Store. Despite some birth pains, it’s looking to be a smashing hit. And why not? Take the best phone platform out there, a cool idea, some developer brains, mix them up together and you could potentially get a boatload of moolah. Note to self: it might be a good idea to try to get on that bus.

Speaking of birth pains, there’s been some news about unfair practices in the app store. Sheesh, this is easy. Do a Yahoo and pull another page out of the Facebook book (Facebook book? uh, sorry) by displaying the applications in “smart-random” view, just like how when you click on “Show all friends” on a friend’s profile shows you all that person’s friends using some criteria (may be connected to you in some way, part of a group, attended the same school, etc), but it looks random so that you don’t always see people named “Wachowski” up to “Zimmerman” in the 50th page or so.