<p>We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the App Store launching on July 10, 2008. After a brief history of the store itself, we pick some of our favorite, most influential early iOS apps.</p>





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<li>Follow up: <a href="https://twitter.com/macfixer/status/1009566741826097153">Apple Causal</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/1028594/macosxhints.html">Ink</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The Sweet Solution<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKKISOnOCaw">Steve's announcement</a></li>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2007/06/wwdc_2007_keynote">Gruber's take</a></li>
<li><a href="https://overcast.fm/+B7NBHl-RU/05:40">Phil Schiller's reaction</a> [🤬 audio]</li>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2009/12/pastrykit">PastryKit</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>App Store launch<ul>
<li><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=szrsfeyLzyg">There's an App for That</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.macstories.net/stories/10-years-of-app-store-a-timeline-of-changes/">Timeline of App Store changes</a></li>
</ul>
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</ul><h3 id="our-app-picks">Our app picks</h3><ul>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pandora-music/id284035177?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Pandora</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ecormany/4210212872/">Ed's Pandora setup</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bitcartel.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/farewell-pandorajam/">PandoraJam</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Facebook</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/04/what-facebook-used-to-look-like-in-pictures/facebook-app-when-it-launched-2008/">Springboard-like interface</a></li>
<li><a href="http://joehewitt.com/">Joe Hewitt</a>'s <a href="http://joehewitt.com/2009/03/23/the-three20-project">Three20</a></li>
<li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-facebooks-massively-popular-iphone-app-quits-the-project/">"Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny"</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam/id284993459?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Shazam</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761984/apple-shazam-acquisition">Apple acquisition</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instapaper/id288545208?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Instapaper</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1014845067725627392">GDPR woes</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080908141712/http://agilewebsolutions.com:80/products/1Password">1Password</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/">Apple acquisition???</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1016710603359096846">no.</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplenote/id289429962?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Simplenote</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2009/07/simplenote">Gruber's review</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170803161322/http://taptaptap.com:80/blog/feature-creep-polarization-and-passion/">redesign by tap tap tap</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/5026682/iphone-apps-we-like-twinkle-the-new-best-twitter-app">Twinkle</a><ul>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090711043214/http://tapulous.com/">Tapulous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://mrgan.com">Neven Mrgan's</a> web apps<ul>
<li><a href="http://mrgan.com/gb/">Glyphboard</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mrgan.com/pieguy/">Pie Guy</a></li>
<li>…and <a href="https://www.bigbucketgames.com/">his native apps</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090315130027/http://tapulous.com//taptap2/">Tap Tap Revenge</a></li>
<li>Picross<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross_DS">for Nintendo DS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/picgrid-picross-puzzle/id305761290?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">PicGrid</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelogic/id318667196?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Pixelogic</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paint-it-back/id675183907?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Paint it Back</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/picross-touch/id1073465720?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Picross Touch</a></li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hexologic/id1343246862?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Hexologic</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp-your-local-city-guide/id284910350?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Yelp</a></li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wimbledon-2018/id319284643?mt=8&amp;at=1001lM5B&amp;ct=simplebeep">Wimbledon</a></li>
</ul>

e73 – The iMac at 20

A podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Hosted by Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius.