Today at Apple’s WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple had a bunch of Cinema Display monitors mounted together on a wall showing what looked to be some sort of pulsating canvas. But a closer look revealed that it was actually a huge collection of icons for many of the apps available in the App Store, arranged by color. Apparently, when someone purchased one, that app’s icon would pulsate, creating the effect.
While it wasn’t quite real-time, nor was it entirely representative of all the more than 50,000 apps in the App Store, the visualization was pretty damn cool. Prettier than the Google Holodeck and it gave off less heat. Not surprisingly, onlookers were mesmerized by the pulsating apps.
Check out the pictures below and watch the video. It reminded me a bit of the lines of code falling down that the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar would see when trying to look into the The Matrix — only with fart apps.
I noticed that too – they are really cool!
We want MS Windows app store. No, Im not refering to windows mobile.
So you mean, like, any store that sells software, including Wal Mart?
I hope my app is on there!
No one buys my app!
terrible video – completely failed to capture how pretty the effects were when the app icons bounced
my bad. still cool though.
Damn cool!
It makes you want to stick around and get hypnotized by popular apps blinking.
Cheers!
Shonzilla
Damn that’s awesome. How badass would it be if they stuck these things in the Apple stores.
Not bad… you would need several lifetimes to be able to use all of these apps let alone download >> install and >> use!
Great looking wall of success… how is the Palm wall going?
I have an iPhone and love it. But the Apple app store is clearly quantity over quality. Probably two thirds of the so called “apps” replicate the content of websites and have very little value. The rest are games and mildly useful tools.
The game is wide open for the other mobile devices to catch up. Android, pre, nokia, etc. They just need talented developers to create real applications instead of the less skilled gold rush chasing apple app store developers. Obviously there are a few great iPhone apps, but in reality very few.
Two thirds? I like your optimism. Even if you’re right, in that two thirds, I’d estimate a good 50 percent or more are ripping off the other 50 percent.
Palm doesn’t have a wall yet, more like a Post-it note.
Apple to me is all about innovation…
So many apps on the wall.
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I want this as a screensaver!
I agree. A screensaver of this would be awesome.
double agree.
+1.
Please someone with Quartz Composer knowledge see this and make a replica. Even it’s fake and only pulsates random apps.
I wrote a python program to simulate it, although not a screen saver.
http://pograph....y-own-app-wall/
looks cool
Coolest thing i’ve seen all day!! :p
太有意思了！Apple总有太多新奇！
There are 20,000 apps are on this wall (1,000 per Cinema Display monitor). If they had made the icons a wee bit smaller, they could have fit all 50,000.
From my non-scientific observation, the Yelp app was being downloaded about every 5-6 seconds.
I would imagine that Apple would want apps to display by popularity. This could be built in Processing and fed by a database. Quite cool!
Anybody know who developed it?
That’s impressive, and what’s equally impressive is the correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, you so had to Google that
I want this as my Desktop wallpaper and cinema room mounted wall design as well..
/if I had a cinema room/
ha ha yes, i had to Google that.
At last: the improved app launcher I’ve been looking for for my iPhone!
ha yeah, that’d be pretty awesome.
gosh i love this!
wow, this is possible? really so great!!!
this is sweet! love it!
thanks alot…great
> We want MS Windows app store. No, Im
> not refering to windows mobile.
The Windows app store is called Warez, and all the apps are free. It’s a key feature of Windows that all the apps are free. What other reason would you have for using Windows except you want to run some Warez? If you were willing to pay for stuff or knew what the hell you were doing, you’d buy a Mac for crying out loud.
free copy of my app (ooTunes Radio) and the ooTunes server to anyone who can find my app, get a picture (or better yet, video
and send it to me… I get about a download every 3 minutes so you might even see it pulse if you’re patient!
@ootunes very clever bit of advertising that, well done you!
Do you think you could learn to use a video camera properly?
Once again Apple are going for style over substance. It looks very pretty, but seems to have two things wrong with it.
1. Each display is independent. It is not a “wall”, but rather set of individual displays/applications sat next to each other. This really does limit, they types of visualisation/interaction that can be done with it.
2. The application itself is completely useless.
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Once again Apple are going for style over substance. It looks very pretty, but seems to have two things wrong with it.
1. Each display is independent. It is not a “wall”, but rather set of individual displays/applications sat next to each other. This really does limit, they types of visualisation/interaction that can be done with it.
2. The application itself is completely useless.”
I think that you are missing the point, it is not supposed to be useful, it is an exercise is showing off how many apps there are and how popular they are.
jeez…
What a great visual to really get a sense of how many apps there are. Moreover, how many developers continue to create new apps. Although, I would have to agree with some that many of the apps are useless. Regardless, great iPhone advertising, once again.
Really cool, I Like it.
I was thinking of doing something similar on http://www.appgiveaway.com but I decided best focus on giving away apps you’d otherwise have to pay for.
Wow! That’s pretty awesome.