When we last left off, MacInspector was raking Apple across the coals for its handling of the iPhone 3G release. Now that we've vented on what went wrong, I guess it's time to make amends with the mothership and talk about what went right this weekend.

Even despite all the shortages, outages, and general headaches, Apple and its partners managed to move some one million handsets in less than three days. That's pretty impressive by anyone's standards, but its nearly mind-blowing when you consider that the first iPhone took all of 74 days to hit that milestone.

Yes, iPhone 2007 was only released in the States at first and yes, it was a first generation product, but you still have to be impressed with the voracity with which people still go after the JesusPhone.

And it's not just the iPhone that had a good weekend. The iTunes/iPhone/iPod Touch app store is also quite popular. Seems that the online market has already served its ten-millionth application.

It does appear, however, that Apple will probably be the only ones getting stinking rich off of the new store. Around a quarter of the apps are being distributed for free, and only around 80 or so of the 800+ applications have an asking price higher than ten dollars.

If you can get your iPhone up and running, this is going to be a pretty good time for you.

15 Jul 2008