At long last, Apple has finally equipped some of its developers with the tools needed to begin authoring iPhone background applications. This will eventually remedy problems with the iPhone regarding running applications in the background. The same thing could happen to a drug dealer trying to convert ounces to grams. He/She suddenly gets a phone call then, BAM, all that hard work leaves business dry and sales at a stand still. Apple is fixing this by adding the “Push Notification Service” they mentioned at the WWDC.

AppleInsider writes:

Instead of allowing potentially dozens of third party services to simultaneously access an iPhone directly, the push service would funnel all transmissions from developers’ servers through a central Apple server, which would then relay the data to iPhones through a single persistent and well-managed background connection.

This is the best news on the iPhone we’ve heard all week. Wait a minute, this is the only news on the iPhone we’ve wrote all week. That’s not like us at all. It’s because Vince got that new Sierra Nevada Sidekick, which pretty much renders any other phone pale in comparison.

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Apple has announced that it has sold one million iPhone 3Gs since it launched last Friday. Says CEO Steve Jobs:

“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

“It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world

At this rate, the iPhone 3G is easily on its way to surpass the original iPhone in sales. The fact that the 3G was launched in 22 counties probably helped too. Thought the one million units was impressive? Over 10 million applications have been downloaded from the App Store already, which is absurd. Apple really has locked itself into the mobile phone market as a top competitor this time around.

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My buddy JC sent me these pics of his iPhone 1st gen running the new iPhone 2.0 software and running the official AOL AIM client from the App Store. Enjoy!

Apple originally expected around 200 applications to launch with the iPhone 3G on Friday. Now that number has blown up to over 500 apps and developers are still working. According to Apple, response from developers has been tremendous and by the looks of some of the available apps (some of which are already available on iTunes), customer response should be equally pleasing.

With AOL releasing a free AIM app, Facebook following suit and other big players like eBay, SEGA, MySpace joining the fray, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the iPhone 3G surpass sales of the original iPhone. 24 hours from now, we’ll find out.

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What would it look like if you were running 150 separate applications at once on a MacBook Pro, and is it even possible? Probably something like this.

The owner of this 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM (the same notebook I have) claims that he can run all of his 150 applications at once, with the computer still running smoothly. It seems a little far-fetched for me, but perhaps that’s the reason for MacBook mania. — Andrew Dobrow

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