{"id":648,"date":"2008-12-01T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-12-01T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:45:38","slug":"10000-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/648\/10000-apps","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is celebrating the benchmark of 10,000 shipping &#8220;apps&#8221; for the iPhone. If my scare quotes convey some negative connotation, then they&#8217;ve done their job. The vast majority of applications I&#8217;ve tried on the iPhone hardly deserve to celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>\nI definitely do not think that sheer numbers are the story of the iPhone&#8217;s future, but if it makes some suits feel better about the device, then I&#8217;ll join in the cheers. 10,000 individual products for sale or free download definitely indicates a high degree of interest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/taptaptap.com\/\">Tap Tap Tap<\/a> have taken the opportunity to put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taptaptap.com\/blog\/10000\/\">remarkable poster-sized graphic<\/a> of the icons from these 10,000 apps, arranged so as to look like a photo of an iPhone:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/images\/10000iPhone.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think this was a really cool idea, even with a dubious point of celebration. For many of these apps, their presence in this poster is the most attractive they&#8217;ll ever be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is celebrating the benchmark of 10,000 shipping &#8220;apps&#8221; for the iPhone. If my scare quotes convey some negative connotation, then they&#8217;ve done their job. The vast majority of applications I&#8217;ve tried on the iPhone hardly deserve to celebrated. I definitely do not think that sheer numbers are the story of the iPhone&#8217;s future, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,52,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}