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The iTunes AppStore is now ready for your browsing pleasure. Just a click away from your iTunes Software Update button and you’ll be off exploring the huge array of iPhone applications made available for downloads.

Releasing the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) to public is definitely the way to go. Share the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to the world and let the third party software developers unleash their creativity. When comes to innovative ideas and inventions in the software arena – a million heads (the world) is surely better than a few hundreds (Apple).

On this note, Apple is creating a new, and possibly juicy revenue stream for themselves. Apple is leveraging on the “network effects” benefits that AppStore might potentially provide – the more people who own the iPhones, the more third party developers will be attracted and seize the opportunity to build and sell their applications in AppStore. And the more iPhone applications that are in AppStore, the more people would want the iPhone.

Now, it is not just the iPhone’s sleek user interface and user friendliness that made it the Phone of phones. It is now the repoirtoire of applications that can run on iPhone which makes it the killer phone.

I’m patiently waiting for my iPhone to arrive in Singapore this September 2008.