We explained the iPhone App Store to you last month when it launched, but now that it is a month old,sales numbers are out, and it looks to a raging success.

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the app store has had 60 million downloads thus far, and an average of $1 million dollar in sales a day for a total of $30 million for the first month.  Considering the applications that you pay for start at $9.95, that means a lot of people are trying the free applications, and we will be discussing those in more detail soon.

The reason talking about this fits in with the mission of StarterTech is that it shows that this may become a very viable mobile computing platform in short order.  With this type of success, there are sure to be even more people flocking to the App Store soon to add even more useful tools for those who want a form of mini computer they can fit in their pocket.  As I have mentioned before, two of us here at StarterTech carry the iPod Touch, and though that means we need Wi-Fi for it to work, we are still getting a lot of new things accomplished with them thanks to all of the new apps.  The best thing is that we firmly fall in the category of people only taking advantage of the free apps.

Being able to update Twitter, check my RSS feeds, listen to streaming Internet music stations, etc while laying in bed or sitting out on the back porch is truly a wonder.  I don’t have to lug out my laptop, wait for it to boot up, and then deal wtih a cumbersome computer.  I just fire up whatever I want to do on the iPod Touch and then slip it in my pocket.  This may truly be the hand held computer family we have all waited so many years for.