Phone Apps For Adults

摘要

The geeks are at the gates, and they've brought their virtual light sabers. When it comes to nerdery, the legions who camped outside Apple's stores last month to buy the iPhone have nothing on the developers Apple let loose to write software for it. At least three applications turn the $199 iPhone 3G into a flashlight. Another, World 9, lets out a vintage Nintendo bleep every time you bump the phone. In less than 15 minutes you can load up the iPhone with enough junk to make esthete Steve Jobs lose his vegan lunch of brown rice and broccoli. Apple sold an estimated 1 million 3G iPhones the weekend they went on sale, and in the ensuing few days people downloaded 10 million applications from its online App Store. To be sure, thousands of applications have been available for years for phones from Nokia, Palm and Research In Motion.