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iTunes App Store: June 27th vs Early July?

Wednesday June 11, 2008 12:55 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

Several sites (Yooph, AppleInsider) have posted an image found briefly on the Apple Australia iPod Touch page which listed June 27th as the release date for the iTunes App Store. The image was quickly pulled, however, and is unlikely to mean anything.

During the 2008 WWDC keynote speech, Jobs specifically said that the 2.0 Firmware would be delivered in "early July". And the iTunes App Store is a major feature of the 2.0 Firmware. We suspect that June 27th was a previously planned 2.0 Firmware launch date that never materialized. In fact, whispers from WWDC indicate that Apple is still racing to finalize the iTunes App Store, so Apple themsevles may not yet know the exact date of its launch.
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macduke
Posted: 48 months ago
Does anyone know that if the app store comes out before the iPhone 3g, will we be able to transfer purchased software to the new device?
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Rocketman
Posted: 48 months ago
They have announced a firm launch date. July 11. I presume 2008. :)

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Telp
Posted: 48 months ago

They have announced a firm launch date. July 11. I presume 2008. :)

Rocketman


Well, I have the same thoughts as you, but I will bring up that if they have an exact date for one, they would give an exact date for the other...if they had one. I'll take this with a grain of salt, but it could be very true.
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txr0ckabilly
Posted: 48 months ago

Does anyone know that if the app store comes out before the iPhone 3g, will we be able to transfer purchased software to the new device?


along these same lines...

I'm wondering how many iphones i can install these apps on. as it is now i can install all games downloaded on itunes to all of the ipods in my household (that are compatible of course). music bought over wifi on the iphone can be synched with other ipods once synced with itunes.

I'm just hoping it's the same with apps.
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happydude
Posted: 48 months ago

Does anyone know that if the app store comes out before the iPhone 3g, will we be able to transfer purchased software to the new device?


i'm gonna go with probably not. i'd guess that with most other software, you will be licensed to only once machine for installation. i'm sure that's something of which they'll make clear as the days go on, or at least on launch day.
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Telp
Posted: 48 months ago

along these same lines...

I'm wondering how many iphones i can install these apps on. as it is now i can install all games downloaded on itunes to all of the ipods in my household (that are compatible of course). music bought over wifi on the iphone can be synched with other ipods once synced with itunes.

I'm just hoping it's the same with apps.


I think i read somewhere that it would be 5. But I could be making it up, so wait till you here from someone more confident in there repsonce. =]
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stagi
Posted: 48 months ago
I bet they will release it around the 11th.
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amusiccale
Posted: 48 months ago
While the 11th does seem to be the most likely possibility, I can't imagine Apple would be in the least way adverse to pushing it back if it wouldn't happen to be ready.
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deannnnn
Posted: 48 months ago
Apple pushing back a release date? I've never seen that before... :rolleyes:
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v-roc
Posted: 48 months ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the June 27th date for 2.0 software and the App Store. June 30th is the end of the quarter for them so they might want to see if they can get a small bump in revenue and it will be something for them to talk about on the next investor call. Anybody currently approved in the iphone developer program and has been in talks with Apple will have a better idea of when this will happen. :cool:
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