Archive | December 21st, 2009
Disney and CBS contemplate TV subscription service for iTunes, and what that means for the Apple Tablet
Over the past few weeks, Apple has reportedly been pitching the idea of a $30/month subscription service for TV shows on iTunes. The rumored subscription service wouldn’t be tied to a particular type of hardware, and would be accessible to anyone with an iTunes account. Apple, however, encountered some resistance as many content providers were […]
Continue reading...MNL – Monday Night Apple Links
21. December 2009
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It’s been a while since we hit you with a list of interesting Apple links from around the web, so without further adieu, enjoy. VLC for Mac Death “Greatly Exaggerated” – OS News How to Hire a Great iPhone Developer – Business Insider Where in the world are Apple’s 78 million handsets – BrainStorm Tech/CNN […]
Continue reading...Does date of rumored WWDC 2010 event hint at the iPhone moving to Verizon?
21. December 2009
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The Moscone Center in San Francisco is where Apple traditionally holds its annual WWDC event, and over the weekend, people started to notice that the dates between June 28 and July 2 had been booked up on the center’s schedule for what’s listed as a “Corporate Event.” While everyone began to assume that the mysterious corporate event […]
Continue reading...“Gunman” app is like laser tag and paintball for your iPhone
21. December 2009
Holy Shit. If this app is half as good as it sounds, then this might be a literal killer app for the iPhone. I’m talking about “Gunman” (iTunes Link), a recently released iPhone app from Shadowforce that takes augmented reality to a whole new level by meshing it with a first person shooter. Gunman is […]
Continue reading...Extent of App Store success surprised Apple executives
21. December 2009
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The scope and depth of the iTunes App Store is astonishing, with well over 100,000 apps that have generated more than 2 billion downloads to date. But when the app store first opened up for business in July of 2008, no one could have predicted just how successful it was going to be – and that even […]
Continue reading...iTunes U nets over 100 million downloads
21. December 2009
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iTunes U comprises a unique niche within the iTunes Store, and provides users with an extensive amount of free educational content in a wide variety of subjects from a diverse pool of Universities around the world. Whether it be lectures, demonstrations, audio books, or hands on lab instruction, iTunes U makes educational material from top […]
Continue reading...When Steve Wozniak put together a US Music Festival
21. December 2009
Check out this photo of Steve Wozniak hangin’ out with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth at the 1983 US Festival in California, a badass music festival which attracted hundreds of thousands of music fans and was sponsored and funded by Woz himself. Yep, you read that correctly – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak actually put […]
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21. December 2009
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