Eric Grimley
Philip SchillerHappy 15th Birthday App Store 🎂
monorail times@pschiller Can you imagine if iPhone was still just web apps?
Jay 🆘@monorailtimes @pschiller Web apps would be a lot more robust for sure! All kinds of web technologies would have been rapidly prioritized.
Kind of like how because the iPhone didn’t support Flash, everybody rushed to replace it on their sites.
Steve BarnesI've always wished they would have been treated a little better than they have – and they have developed quite a lot – but much of the first-class-like treatment has come in the last year or two. (I'm still not exactly sure whether to thank luck or Europe.)
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@pschiller Happy Birthday 🎂🎉
Robert Petersen 
@pschiller Wonder how many iPhones needed repairs from people getting angry at Monkey Ball and tossing their phones?
John Hood@pschiller 15 years! Wowzers!
The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖@pschiller Thanks for making me feel OLD.
Surely it was less... Maybe Ten? ;)
*looks at notes*. Oh. It was that long :/
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping@Aminorjourney @pschiller we were already on iPhone 5S 10 years ago ;)
Josh McConnell 
@pschiller feels like yesterday. Time flies when you're having fun?
AppleInsider@pschiller Happy Birthday App Store! 🎈 🎈 🎉
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/15/apples-app-store-changed-the-software-world-15-years-ago
stux⚡️@pschiller Wow, time flies! 
Roman 
Craig Hockenberry@pschiller It was a career highlight to see our app banner on day one. I can’t express the excitement we all felt, but it’s still memorable after all these years.
How many hands of poker have you played since then?
brandon
BasicAppleGuy@pschiller HBD! 🥳
I’d love to know what was the first app you download from the App Store?
I’d love to know what was the first app you download from the App Store?
Simon Harper@BasicAppleGuy @pschiller probs a hockey app 👍🏼
John Gruber@BasicAppleGuy @pschiller I’ll bet $5 it was Texas Hold’em:
Chris Dreiling@gruber @BasicAppleGuy @pschiller It was a Killer app. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Texas_Hold%27em
Texas Hold'em
Texas Hold'em are mobile games that were developed by Apple to adapt the card game of the same name to be played on various iPod, iOS, and iPadOS devices. The first mobile version of Texas Hold'em from Apple Computer was originally released through the iTunes Store on September 12, 2006 for the 5th-generation iPod, 3rd-generation iPod nano, and later Click Wheel-based iPod models. It was discontinued by the end of September 2011 as the iPod classic was the last remaining Click Wheel-based model.
AC@BasicAppleGuy @chockenberry @gruber @pschiller And did I just redownload Hold ’Em because this brought it to mind? Yes.
@BasicAppleGuy @chockenberry @gruber Ha! My App Store purchase history shows that I downloaded “Texas Hold‘em” on August 20, 2008. My first download on July 10, 2008 was the “iTunes Remote” app (I downloaded a number of apps testing the store before that).
Jay
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Luke Dorny 
@pschiller @BasicAppleGuy @chockenberry @gruber mine was eBay. My oldest app purchase that is still installed. Followed by the Remote app!
RubenG@pschiller @BasicAppleGuy @chockenberry @gruber « Virtual Pool Lite » for me. On the iPod Touch December 2008
David Jarman@pschiller I’m still getting a lot of use out of the Remote app, on my iPad. It’s a great second screen use when playing music from my iMac.
Proxima Centauri@gruber @BasicAppleGuy @pschiller Some Stephen Robles is saying Phil made also Threads account: https://www.threads.net/@philipschiller007
Is that so?
danny_wonglh@BasicAppleGuy Texas Hold'em: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Texas_Hold%27em
Texas Hold'em
Texas Hold'em are mobile games that were developed by Apple to adapt the card game of the same name to be played on various iPod, iOS, and iPadOS devices. The first mobile version of Texas Hold'em from Apple Computer was originally released through the iTunes Store on September 12, 2006 for the 5th-generation iPod, 3rd-generation iPod nano, and later Click Wheel-based iPod models. It was discontinued by the end of September 2011 as the iPod classic was the last remaining Click Wheel-based model.
John Manoogian III
John@BasicAppleGuy @pschiller obviously I Am Rich
Brian Grinter
Chris Domico
Courtney Brillhart@BasicAppleGuy @pschiller @OmniFocus OmniFocus for iPhone in Sept ‘08 is the oldest on my purchases screen although this version is no longer available
Many of my first purchases aren’t in the store anymore 🙁
Many of my first purchases aren’t in the store anymore 🙁
sdevore (moving)
Mike MayerHere’s the first few apps I got on that day. Amazing memories scrolling through this list.
@pschiller wow, Marineboy! Nice!
Blue@pschiller Good times ...
On Day One, I had four apps in the App Store: three contracted by Astrology.com (long story), and my own trigonometry visualization aide, Trigger (a version of which was later one of the first apps for Apple Watch).
I had a game in the works but suffered a catastrophe before completion; had I finished it, and had it been accepted in time, I would've had 1% of the App Store to myself!
(Maintaining that status over the years would've been an interesting challenge ...)
What a ride! Thanks to everyone who made it possible.
Brad Dougherty@pschiller may it be its last
Marioe@pschiller Grandes 15 años 🎂 que nos mejoraron la vida.
AT Hayes@pschiller Oooh, does this mean we’ll get Flappy Bird 2 this year?
John Chidgey@pschiller Oh crap. It’ll be asking for the car keys shortly…