App Store

When I got my iPhone about 9 months the one app I wished for was a terminal. I wanted somthing to enable me to quickly login to my servers and fix problems when in work and stuck behind a proxy or when away from the desk.

There was first a web app which turned out to be a joke, luckily I had that thought and tried it with bogus details. Then there was a homebrew app, but I failed at jailbreaking my iPhone. Then there was another web app, but this time hosted on your own server. This took a little bit of fiddling and messing about to get setup, and was a little clunky, but did do the job.

Today Apple released their App Store for the iPhone. The App Store can be accessed via the iPhone or iTunes and is the only place Apple is allowing users to download iPhone Apps. I guess this is a good thing because you know where everything is and it stops crap and viruses getting in, but it does stop the cool hacky software, although if you do want cool hacky software other cool hacky iPhone things can be done elsewhere.