Archive | December, 2008
Walmart Ad’s for the iPhone begin to appear
Just in time for Christmas! Oh wait, let me rephrase that.. Just in time for the Sunday after Christmas! $197 for a 8GB iPhone from Walmart and $297 for the 16GB model. I’m curious, though, as to where and how the 2 dollar Walmart discount came from.
Continue reading...iPhone tops BlackBerry Storm in user satisfaction
24. December 2008
In a recent customer satisfaction survey by ChangeWave, iPhone users were significantly more satisfied with their device than BlackBerry Storm users. MacWorld has more on the story over here.
Continue reading...iPhone fart app brings in $10,000 a day
24. December 2008
Unbelievable. VentureBeat has the full scoop over here. Developer InfoMedia (Joel Comm), which makes iFart Mobile [iTunes link], has been releasing the download statistics for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps everyday since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday […]
Continue reading...iBoobs rejected from iTunes App Store
23. December 2008
In a move that should surprise no one, but disappoint many, Apple has rejected the iBoobs app from the App Store. Apple, which recently accepted a bevy of farting apps and even an app that simulates smoking, has clearly loosened up its stringent app store guidelines, but not so much so that iBoobs would able […]
Continue reading...Possible iPhone Nano Renderings?
23. December 2008
There sure is a lot of iPhone Nano news coming down the pipeline these days. Most recently, someone just submitted (anonymously, of course) the above photo to MacRumors. Could this really be the much talked about, yet never before seen iPhone Nano? Does it really exist?! Well, we wouldn’t count on it. While a smaller […]
Continue reading...Peeps is now live on the App Store
23. December 2008
Peeps is a great app that lets you organize your contacts in a slick coverflow-esque manner, and after a few missteps, it’s now available on the App Store for $1.99. If you recall, Peeps was initially banned from the App Store because Apple thought the developer used prohibited API’s in his implementation of CoverFlow. Alas, […]
Continue reading...John Gruber takes on iPhone Jailbreak Goddess Erica Sadun
23. December 2008
John Gruber over at DaringFireball has an interesting post discussing the use of public vs. private API function calls in regards to iPhone development. In it, he chastises Jailbreaking guru Erica Sadun for taking what he deems to be a Laissez-faire attitude/approach when writing about and informing others about the risks developers might encounter when […]
Continue reading...More hints of an iPhone Nano surface
22. December 2008
MacRumors is reporting that a case manufacturer named XSKN has a section on their website that makes reference to a an “iPhone Nano”. XSKN gained some notoriety earlier this year when it began selling cases for the then-unreleased iPhone 3G. The company again received headlines in September with case images of unreleased 4th Generation iPod […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs invites over some Superheroes for a Holiday Dinner
22. December 2008
Why isn’t Steve Jobs speaking at Macworld? Because he’s recuperating from a dinner party he threw last week..
Continue reading...Why is Apple investing in the UK-based Imagination Technologies Group?
21. December 2008
Earlier this week it was revealed that Apple bought a 3.6% stake in the UK-based Imagination Technologies Group. Apple doesn’t just gobble up and invest in companies for the hell of it. Instead, investments and purchases are carefully considered, thoroughly researched, and are always part of a larger plan. So who or what is Imagination […]
Continue reading...Dell VP takes Apple to task over environmental claims… sort of
20. December 2008
In a recent blogpost, Dell VP Bob Pearson takes Apple to task over its environmental claims in its latest MacBook ad. The only problem is that Pearson’s take on things seem to go off in a number of different directions, and it’s not quite clear what he’s complaining about. #1 – Be Part of the […]
Continue reading...Breaking down the competing App Stores: Google vs. Apple vs. Palm
20. December 2008
Wired has an informative article that breaks down each of the various app stores used by Apple, Android, and Palm. One point that struck a chord was that it seems that Google, in their zeal to make the Android marketplace as open as possible, has instead created a free-for-all type of system that developers and […]
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24. December 2008
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