Wow. A historic day in the gadget world. The iPhone 3G is out (released in New Zealand a few hours back, comes out here in the morning), MobileMe was launched, and then disappeared (and remains unavailable), and the Apps Store went live.

The apps store (available in iTunes) has got some really sweet software. This iPhone is going to change the mobile scene Big Stylee. For the first time, virtually anyone can develop apps for mobiles and market them for next to nothing to a global user base. I don’t like mobile phones at all and haven’t upgraded mine in years …but the iphone is something else.

I mean, come on, how can you resist when you can use it as a remote control for your music library on your computer.

And what about this one: listening to a piece of music and want to know what it is? Let your phone listen to it for 5 seconds and it will tell you what the song is (and provide you with a link to buy it).

And then there’s Exposure: it’s Flickr in your pocket. But check this out – you can tap on a button and using the iPhone’s GPS and Flickrs metadata it will show you a bunch of photos taken near where you’re standing! (good for people who are so addicted to looking at their iPhone they miss the surrounding scenery.

Other apps I downloaded (despite not having an iPhone or iPod Touch) included Twitterific, a groovy calendar-converter for Japanese years, the evernote app and …Facebook. A totally pointless exercise, but they bring me closer to the iPhone (which I’ll pick up in September).

And that remote control app for iTunes. I know it is just silly to get so excited about turning your phone into a remote control, but I don’t know, there’s something about it that just gets me.

It seems Apple is experiencing major issues with MobileMe though. Let’s just hope they get it sorted soon though so I too can wake up to Exchange for the rest of us 🙂