Apple Inc. is betting that customers want to do much more than just make phone calls, surf the Internet and listen to music on their iPhones.
On Monday, it offered a peek at a few of the thousands of applications expected to be introduced for the iPhone beginning in July. Designed by developers outside the Cupertino technology company, they range from mobile games to tools for physicians to examine medical scans. The calculated move could increase the appeal of the iPhone, giving consumers more reason to buy the device. "It's another reason to own and keep an iPhone," said Charles Golvin, an analyst for Forrester Research.
Apple plans to open the Apps Store - an electronic marketplace much like the iTunes music store, but for software - on July 11. Access to the Apps Store will be part of an iPhone software update, which will be free for the iPhone and $9.95 for the iPod touch, the touch-screen iPod.
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