What I learned after downloading every iPhone App of the Day for a month
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#37XBB)
I'm pining for the time the iPhone was new and apps were still cool. Can the App Store's new daily feature rekindle the magic?
"There's an App for that." Apple's slogan, trademarked two years after the App Store was launched in 2008, summed up a period when an unfamiliar icon on a friend's home screen was a conversation starter, and someone with a good idea working from their bedroom really could do something radically different.
Now Apple wants to bring some of that excitement back to the iPhone of 2017, rebuilding the App Store from the ground up.
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