Apple’s iTunes App Store has reached a very important milestone: 100,000 available applications. In a marketplace where other companies are struggling to get 1,000 applications available for purchase and download, Apple and the developers with accounts have once again risen to the occasion. 100,000 certainly isn’t a small number, and it undoubtedly has brought much success for Apple and the iPhone OS platform.

Let’s face it; when it comes to Valentine’s day, we geeks may have a hard time figuring out what our significant others want. Of course you could use your iPhone to simply call that person and have a nice conversation, but that’s too easy. Thankfully, there is a surplus of Valentine themed iPhone apps via the App Store for you to choose from. The only question is, what apps should you get?

Apple this week has been redesigning aspects of its iTunes App Store due to complaints from some developers. These updates, which were made mostly to separate the free apps from the paid apps, have also made the desktop interface more like that of the interface on the mobile App Store on the iPhone. Some of more »

Digg fan? iPhone application fan? Then you’ll love the new site from Lockergnome that brings a Digg like interface to sorting through iPhone applications. Simply head over to their site, register, and then be on your way to either voting up or down your iPhone applications. The list of submitted applications can be sorted release more »

The App Store comes out in about a week and promises to awe iPhone users with a library of awesome, Apple supported applications. Whether Apple’s idea to include this came from enraged consumers or the rush they were seeing towards jailbreaking is not known. However, in the end, Apple is still going to have to compete with Installer.app to provide the same user experience. The question is, will you still jailbreak your iPhone when the App Store is knocking at your door?

Reasons for both after the break.