Consumers are rushing Apple stores and mobile-phone outlets from Seattle to Sydney on July 11 in hopes of being among the first to get hold of the iPhone 3G. The long-awaited iPhone upgrade boasts touchscreen tech, navigation tools, and faster World Wide Web downloads than its first iteration.

But one of its biggest selling points became available a day earlier, when Apple flung open the doors of the Apple App Store, an online grab bag of games, books, friend-finder

tools, and hundreds of other software applications designed to compose the iPhone more fun and useful.

Developers Target Many Devices

The appeal of amassing a community of software developers who will create scores of different applications around a singled-out mobile phone hasn’t been lost on competing handset makers and cell-phone service providers. They’re eager to keep customers from switching to the iPhone and the carriers such as AT&T on whose […]

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