Archive | February 5th, 2009
Apple’s design process – the work behind the scenes
BusinessWeek has an interesting article about Apple’s design process as relayed to SXSW conference goers by Apple Senior Engineering Manger Michael Lopp. An interesting excerpt: Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely. As Lopp put it: to “go crazy”. Then they also hold […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
5. February 2009
Apple recently rejected a Pakistani developers iPhone application that lets users use the iPhone’s accelerometer to hurl a virtual shoe at former President George W. Bush. If you recall, in the weeks preceding Bush’s tenure as President, he was giving a speech in Iraq when a journalist popped up and threw a shoe at him. […]
Continue reading...Analyst predcits that Apple is planning HDTV with DVR functionality
5. February 2009
AppleInsider reports: Although Apple has publicly denied interest in such markets, investment bank Piper Jaffray said Thursday it expects the company to introduce a networked television in the next two years and update its Apple TV set-top-box with DVR capabilities by year’s end. “We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two […]
Continue reading...The nuances of App Store pricing and marketing
5. February 2009
David Frampton, the creator of the popular iPhone game ‘Chopper’, has an extremely enlightening blog entry about his experiences with App Store pricing and marketing in iTunes. Frampton on the trend of lowering prices in order to boost sales volume: But the biggest problem with setting an app price at the lowest possible value is […]
Continue reading...Child Prodigy in Singapore writes iPhone apps
5. February 2009
A fourth grader from Singapore has written a drawing app for the iPhone called “Doodle Kids”, and its already been downloaded over 4,000 times. The fourth grader, named Lim Ding Wen, happens to be fluent in six, count em’ SIX!, programming languages, and he’s currently hard at work on another iPhone game called “Invader Wars”. […]
Continue reading...iPhone users download games like crazy
5. February 2009
A new report from ComScore shows that over the past year, downloads of mobile games increased by 17%. Naturally, a huge reason for this increase is the ever-growing popularity of smartphones, which are significantly more geared towards gaming than regular voice phones. What’s even more interesting is the fact that iPhone users are seemingly downloading […]
Continue reading...Create a TimeLapse video with your iPhone
5. February 2009
Even with over 19,000 apps already available in the iTunes App Store, developers keep on coming up with original and clever ideas for applications. One app in particular, called TimeLapse, takes a photo with your iPhone every few seconds, and then compiles them all together into a video. In hindsight, this app seems like a […]
Continue reading...Is Apple working on an iPhone with multi-core chips?
5. February 2009
IntoMobile has an interesting article detailing a few reasons why it thinks Apple’s next gen iPhone will include customized multi-core chips. The next major overhaul of the iPhone platform might just see the iPhone coming into its own as a graphics-savvy gaming platform. Apple has been confirmed to have licensed PowerVR graphics technologies from Imagination […]
Continue reading...Leopard to include support for multi-touch and location awareness tools
5. February 2009
AppleInsider reports that Apple’s next OS X release, Snow Leopard, will include extended application support for multi-touch capabilities on its laptops, and location awareness tools for all Macs. While Apple’s desktops and laptops don’t contain GPS units, they will reportedly approximate a users physical location by triangulating nearby wi-fi signals, similar to how the iPhone […]
Continue reading...Bill Gates unleashes Mosquitoes at TED conference
5. February 2009
You can’t make this stuff up – Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes* upon those in attendance at the TED conference. Before you go and come up with a bad Microsoft/bug joke, I should point out that Gates was trying to drive home the point that individuals in poor countries shouldn’t be the only […]
Continue reading...Apple delays shipment of 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro’s
5. February 2009
Citing a slight hiccup in the supply chain, Apple informed customers yesterday that shipments of its new unibody 17 inch MacBook Pro would be delayed for at least another two weeks. In an email sent to customers with existing pre-orders, Apple noted that it doesn’t expect shipmenst to commence until Februrary 19th at the earliest. […]
Continue reading...Apple Store in DC finally approved
5. February 2009
ifoAppleStore reports: After several denials by a District of Columbia architectural commission, Apple has finally obtained approval for its planned store on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown district of the city. Apple intends to demolish and re-build the building at 1229 Wisconsin Avenue that they purchased in 2007 for $13.3 million. Early designs were heavy […]
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