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Apple announced 1 million 3G iPhones sold and 10 million applications downloaded from the fledgling App Store this past weekend.

The App Store currently has ~800 applications available and this shows just how popular the iPhone SDK has been with developers. This is a critical turning point for the iPhone, no other phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile or Android) is even close to this level of integration and success with 3rd party developed apps.

Welcome to a whole new world of personal computing. Apple is leading the way and easily has first mover advantage. It will take several years for the competition to put together an SDK and HW solution that is as tightly integrated, polished and well though out. If Apple keeps up this pace of development and innovation, no one, not even Google will be able to catch them for some time. Steve Job's is a master of the game.


Here are the lines at the Apple Store on 14th st in Manhattan on opening morning.










Relevant Links:

• Full story at ArsTechnica.com, link here...
• More photos of the long lines at the AT&T and Apple Stores here.

I am a strong believer in the Apple way of doing business. I make no secret of that and after a spending a good deal of time researching it has become clear to me that the new additions to the Apple SDK to include support for rapid iPhone development is a death blow to the rest of the Smartphone industry, but it appears that it is not as obvious to my friends and colleagues why.

FTW is a common internet abbreviation of "For The Win" and it best describes what the iPhone SDK means for Apple.