Apple celebrates a birthday

APPLE'S APP STORE has survived better than the unfortunate avatar of its quickly banned Baby Shaker application and reached its first birthday.

If it was real, or some sort of cyborg, the App Store could show other one year olds how records are broken, as in, "You can say Daddy? I have over 50,000 apps!" "Oh good for you, you've got your own piggybank? Well, I've made zillions!" You get the idea.

On the App Store's website, the too-cool fountain of smug gushes, "Light a candle and cue the music. OK, forgive us for sounding like doting parents, but we're just so proud - having watched the App Store go from promising newcomer to full-fledged revolutionary. To celebrate its first birthday, we've gathered some of our favorite games and apps. Part fun. Part function. Entirely amazing."

Upon reading that we had to go throw up, but all you Iphone and Ipod users can go and debase yourselves in the glory of virtual beers and handheld spirit levels at the App Store now.

In unrelated news, mobile manufacturer LG has launched its own App store but has decided to initially focus on the much smaller Asian mobile market. Not much promise for it there, then.

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