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Dafrety: I saw one at the Best Buy in the John Hancock Center. It was like butter, I couldn't believe it. The screen was nice and bright, the transitions were ... more »
Christo27: This was the first thing the guy did where I was in NYC. I didn't even ask, he just said "They have apps in the marketplace, and they will be open to ... more »
Identity (Metric): Apps aren't very important to me. My Zune HD will spend most of its time playing music and podcasts. more »
(Starman) Starman: I called it out~! :D But seriously, it was inevitable that it would go here, from having games and all. more »
MarcusMaximus: Hey! Cool! This is my picture! I sent this in from my fiancee's email address(thus the "Jarnet"). At any rate, ya they actually wouldn't let me use th... more »
gotFrosty: Hmm… Too bad it's not a phone. more »
OMG! Ponies!: You know, Gizmodo is nothing but a bunch of Zune fanbois. You never see them giving this kind of atention to the iPhone. I wish there was some way t... more »
KenK: A marketplace with Apps is nice, but what about the "developers! developers! developers!"? I haven't seen any mention of a Zune SDK or any entrance f... more »
KTK1990: I wonder what the app store restrictions will be. Will it be where once you purchase the app, it is yours no matter how many devices you own? Or will ... more »
Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: The only two factors keeping me on the fence are availability of apps, and the as of yet unknown price point and release date for the 64gb version. O... more »

#rumor

SlingPlayer Coming To WebOS and Android Phones?
Palm Pre and Android phone owners could be getting some Sling streaming television action if this Sling Media job listing reveals anything. The company is looking for a Mobile Interface Designer who has experience with Android and WebOS applications. More »
#time

Time Is Relatively Easy to Track Using These Five Tools
More Sunday goodness from Lifehacker. This Sunday's installment is a list of the best time-tracking applications available today. [Lifehacker]
#printers

There's A Printer App for That: HP Launches App Studio for its PhotoSmart Premium with TouchSmart Web
Apps are taking smartphones by storm, so why not invade every other consumer electronic device. Back in June HP released its PhotoSmart Premium with TouchSmart Web and now developers can write apps for the world's first web-connected printer. More »
#zunehd

Zune HD Teases Inaccessible Apps Menu During Weekend Preview
The Zune HD's mysterious Apps menu, which will definitely have games at launch and could very well provide something more, was poked and prodded en masse this weekend during a Best Buy preview event. Even so, the mystery remains. More »
#gps

iPhone TomTom GPS Application Appears in New Zealand App Store
The much-awaited TomTom for iPhone GPS navigation app has popped up in the New Zealand App Store with a reported asking price ranging from about $81 to $125. The app price does not include the TomTom iPhone car kit. Updated. More »
#vcast

Verizon Expected to Launch Vcast Application Store Before End of 2009
Expected in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Vcast application store isn't meant to compete with Apple's app store, according to Verizon. It just happens to be an over-the-air marketplace for application developers to distribute their apps on. More »
#appstore

Need Medicinal Cannabis? There's an App For That
From the strange world of approved and rejected Apple App Store apps comes word today that Apple has approved a medicinal Cannabis location app for the iPhone and iPod touch. More »
#iphone

Installer for iPhone Is Dead
Oh Installer, Installer, we had so much fun together, you and I. When Apple didn't have any iPhone app store, and whenever Apple blocked some essential iPhone apps, you were always there. And now... now you are dead like Zed. More »
#iphoneapps

Sirius XM iPhone App Available Tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, subscribers to Sirius XM radio will be able to download the application on their iPhones for free. More »
#apple

Apple Developer Agreement Forbids Writing Jailbreak and DRM Cracking Apps
Developers signing on to the iPhone SDK program are now expressly forbidden from writing iPhone apps that can be installed via jailbreak, or any software for any Apple technology that messes with security or DRM. More »
#iphoneapps

InstallerApp For Mac Installs Jailbreak Apps Without Jailbreaking Your iPhone
Ripdev's InstallerApp makes installing third-party jailbreak applications on your iPhone slightly easier, by eliminating the need to jailbreak your iPhone at all. You just need to pay $7 for the privilege. More »
#rumor

Rumor: Nintendo Planning on Its Own Dsi App Store
Nintendo might be planning on taking on the iPhone and iPod Touch with an app download service of its own, and has been encouraging developers to come up with app-like content for the DSi. More »
#iphoneapps

Face Double iPhone App Tells You Who Your Celebrity Twin Is
Have you ever seen a familiar face but weren't able to link it to a name? FaceDouble can reveal which celebrity that person resembles after you've snapped a photo of them with your iPhone. More »
#iphoneapps

TiVoRemote: The App Store's First TiVo Remote App
TiVoRemote is the App Store's first network-based remote control program for TiVo. Aside from the novelty of changing the channel, you can use the iPhone's full QWERTY keyboard to search for programming. More »
#iphoneapps

SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email
From the maker of handy iPhone landscape typing program TouchType, SMS Touch is an iPhone app that allows users to send unlimited text messages without paying for an SMS plan.
#allgizwants

All Giz Wants: The One True Internet Pizza Ordering App Framework
Today was a very special day in pizza tech news. First, Dominos, oh boy Dominos: you've automated pizza ordering and delivery in a way that I never specifically thought about, but now that it's out, have already welcomed as a new sign that humans are making progress in this world. You can now order, pay for and track delivery of a pizza from a graphical menu on your TiVo. And on top of that, a free medium Papa John's pie can be yours via its now-painfully-antiquated web delivery system all for becoming a fan of PJ's on Facebook. More »
#googleandroid

Android App Review Marathon Liveblog
The T-Mobile G1 Android phone is now available, and you've seen our review. Now we're going to take on the apps in the Android Marketplace. How are they? Are they good enough to justify a two year commitment to T-Mobile? Read on and find out. More »
#android

MobiHand Launching Android App Store, Colors Us Confused
Coinciding with the launch of the G1, mobile app seller MobiHand is putting up its own store dedicated specifically to Android apps, called OnlyAndroid.com. The company is touting it as the first store supporting both free and paid applications for the Android OS, which is a little funny considering that Google's widely rumored to be coming out with its own payment system AND at least one other third-party store's already been announced. More »
#smartphones

BlackBerry Storefront Answers Apple App Store and Android Marketplace
Good news for BlackBerry users and developers! Research In Motion has just announced an applications store! Bad news for BlackBerry users and developers! It's not going to be available until March 2009. This sure won't help the fact that the iPhone is outselling the Blackberry and Android is quickly becoming Apple's major rival in the public's eye instead of the new #2 seller. No matter how nice the BlackBerry Storm is, the delay is not good. More »
#android

Google Takes Down Applications from Marketplace, World Gets Weird Deja Vu
This one is strange: Nobody knows exactly why, but Google has taken down most of the more than fifty applications that were supposed to be in the Android Marketplace. Although I'm getting an Apple deja vu here, nobody knows yet why this is happening, although there's plenty of speculation. Explanations range from "trying to save bandwidth" (very unlikely) to "last minute quality check" (weird). As far as I'm concerned, it may have been the little green men, but the fact is that there are only 13 apps up there right now. Update: A message by a T-Mobile forum administrator points out that the change was planned. More »
#facebook20

Facebook 2.0 Now Available on iTunes
Hey social networking fans, Facebook 2.0 for the iPhone has been released and is now up for download at the iTunes app store. With the newest version, you can get notifications, friend requests, full news feeds, news feed comments, your entire inbox, and photo capabilities. Now you can check up on how all your Finance major friends are doing from on the road. Status Update: Not very well. [iPhone Savior]
#nin

Nine Inch Nails Version of Tap Tap Revenge Coming to iTunes
Tapulous—the creators of that Perfect Drug of an app, Tap Tap Revenge—is partnering up with Nine Inch Nails to put over a dozen of the band's songs in the game. The alliance will be one of the first to bring licensed content to iPhone apps and, depending on how successful it is, could mark a surge of similar musician/application deals. Considering how addictive the game (with a Capital G) is, this NIN-bundle could be the thing that'll suck you Into The Tap Tap Revenge Void. [TechCrunch]
#iphone

Apple's iPhone Developer University Program Hits, Will Cost Unis Nothing
Apple's recently revealed its iPhone Developer University Program: it's aimed at higher educational institutions who wish to introduce an iPhone/iPod touch developer curriculum, and supplies the iPhone SDK free of charge for up to 200 students. Basically it'll mean that a class is a small developer company, able to share development apps within the team as they learn programming skills. Ultimately the school can also publish them through the App Store. You can either see this as a kind-hearted attempt by Apple to aid higher education, or a way of tapping into a rich vein of imaginative developers for new apps for the App Store. Either way, it's interesting stuff, though for now it's limited to accredited schools in the US. [Program page via AppleInsider]
#privatei

Private-I App Protects Your iPhone from the Dumbest Degenerates
If the chances of having your iPhone stolen by incredibly stupid thieves are pretty high, we recommend you download Private-I. The $1 application shows up as an icon screaming “PRIVATE” in big red letters, which will allegedly lure your phone burglar into launching it. The app then loads up a fake screen that says “Accessing pictures” while sneakily using the iPhone's GPS (or triangulation) capabilities to email you with your phone's coordinates. I'm not sure how big the population of bumbling bandits is, but hey! Anything to keep your baby safe, right? [Wired]
#sonybravia

Sony Japan Releases SDK For Bravia TV Apps
Sony became the latest to jump on the app trend bandwagon, but not with a product you'd automatically equate with downloading itty bitty widgets. The company has released an App development kit for its line of Bravia television sets. It expects people to create things like small multiplayer online games, weather and news data aggregators and anything else you can program onto 1.3MB of memory. More »
#iphoneapps

The Week in iPhone Apps: Let's Get Drunk and Talk About Politics
Always a microcosm of the greater world, the App Store this week focused on two things us Americans have been thinking about a lot recently—the upcoming election, and tossing back a few this Labor Day weekend. And with this week's apps, there's no reason for your iPhone to be left out. More »
#android

Android Market, Google's App Store, Will Not Require Approval For Applications
The Android Dev Blog today released some shots and details on the Android Market—the Android version of the iPhone's App Store. Stressing that it's a "market" (free, open, etc) rather than a "store," the Google folks have decided to not require an approval process for devs to have their applications listed, unlike Apple's mysterious black box of approval that even the developers still don't fully understand. Which is great news for Android devs, but could be quite a handful for Google. More »
#iphone

iTunes Support Store: iPhone App Crashes Fixed
Good news, iPhone users! Looks like Apple has finally fixed that 2.0 app crashing problem. One Gizmodo reader received an email last night from the iTunes Support Store with instructions for redownloading applications you've already bought (for free, of course) and was given a $15 gift certificate for his troubles! Maybe Adam will convert to Macs after all? [ - Thanks Henry!]
#twitter

DSTwitter Proves DS Users Need To Share Intimate Details Too
DSTwitter brings Twitter Shitters the ability to broadcast their current activity to the world via their DS. Is this something you couldn't do before with your cellphones? Of course not. But if you can read Spanish and can run homebrew apps on your DS, grab DSTwitter and start broadcasting the consistency of your turds to everyone in the world. We have. [Mashable via PMP Today via Pocket Gamer via Kotaku]
#iphoneapps

Simplify Media For iPhone Streams Your iTunes Library (Plus 30 Of Your Friends') To Your Phone
The previously jailbreak-only Simplify Media has just hit the iTunes App Store, allowing you to stream your entire iTunes music library (plus up to 30 of your friends') to your iPhone. The official app has all the features of the old version, including album art, lyrics and artist bios, plus works over EDGE, 3G and Wi-FI. It's free for the first 100k downloaders, so we can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want to use this seeing as it gives your phone an essentially unlimited amount of storage space. Video demo after the jump. More »
#iamdumb

I Am Rich App Ported to Windows Mobile, Misses the Point
Giz reader Julien has created a version of the iPhone I Am Rich application, but he has completely missed the point by making it donationware. Julien, the objective of this app is making you richer by making stupid rich morons poorer in the process. More »
#iphonerejection

Some Insight Into Apple's App Store Rejections - No Rumble For Force Feedback
iPhone App de-listing may be mysterious process that takes place behind an opaque curtain of mystery, but TUAW discovered that the approval process is just as undecipherable. Two developers contacted them recently to fill them in on why their apps were rejected, one of which—rejected because they used vibration in a game—seems pretty ludicrous to us. More »
#apple

60 Million Apps Sold at iTunes Store, There is a Kill Switch, Says Steve Jobs
It's been a month since the iTunes App Store went live, and in an interview with the Wall St Journal, Steve Jobs has put the apps downloads figure at over 60 million. With the mix of free and paid apps, that brought Apple around $30 million. That's obviously encouraged Steve: He's enthusiastic that maybe "it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time" adding that he's "never seen anything like this in my career for software." More »
#iphoneapps

Confirmed: Eight Morons Bought the $999 I Am Rich iPhone Application
We had some doubts about the authenticity of the clown who bought the $999 I'm Rich iPhone app, but Armin Heinrich—the German author of the application—has confirmed that not only one moron, but eight dumbasses actually bought the application. According to him, there are more waiting to get it: More »
#iphoneapps

$999.99 iPhone App "I Am Rich" Probably Only Applies to Developer
You must've seen at least one book titled something like "This book will teach you how to earn $1 million." Now, picture an iPhone application that has just two functions: a red jewel icon that "always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this," and, after pressing the "(i)", a secret mantra that "may help to you stay rich, healthy and successful." It costs $999.99. See where I'm going with this? I've got a better mantra that'll help you stay rich and healthy (by avoiding accidental spending-induced heart-attacks.) "Make sure you keep iTunes asking for your permission to buy apps before purchasing, or clicking on this app link may make you very, very sad indeed." Update: Apple have pulled the app from the App store. You can turn on one-click purchasing again. [Product page]
#iphoneapps

Our Favorite iPhone Apps
After two weeks of using the iPhone 2.0 full-time, each of us here has developed a fondness for a handful of apps that we can't live without. Some of them show up in just about everyone's top five (Yelp, Facebook), and some of them we'll just attribute to the guy being a weirdo (MooCowMusic's Band). Here they are in an order that I deem most appropriate. Basically, the ones I like are up front. More »
#iphoneapps

Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market
A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps. It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers. But many of the amazing apps and concepts we grew to love as unofficial apps aren't here, and only about 100 of the 500+ apps at launch in the official store are really useful or desirable—the rest are dupes or just bad. There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet I can't turn it into a 3G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot. Why? Because the SDK has more restrictions than Guantanamo—devs can't integrate with the OS and have to steer way, way clear of copyright and trademark issues—so the most innovative, game-changing apps might not ever make it to your squeaky clean iPhone. That's why we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make the iPhone an ultra-powerful open platform we really want. Here are the roadblocks: More »
#iphoneapps

Beware iPhone App Scams
If you Google "iPhone apps," the first thing that comes up is iPhoneApps.org, a site selling a bundle of "top 10" iPhone applications for $25 using "safe PayPal." Friends, there's nothing safe about this site. It's a scam. The iTunes App Store is the exclusive distributor of official iPhone apps, period. Don't get your apps anywhere else. Tell your friends and family. If you're savvy enough to use Installer.app, this PSA is not for you, obviously (I mean, you know you can get all this stuff for free, right?). [Thanks Blake!]
#iphoneapps

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog
There are a total of 552 different apps in the iPhone App Store right now. We're going to do live impressions of the best ones (and some really, really lousy ones if they're interesting enough). UPDATE: It's over! More at our iPhone App coverage.. More »
#apps

App Duplication is Apple App Store Fun, Awkwardness
It's App Store launch day, so there's bound to be a few bits of fun... check out To Do versus Todo in the image there, spotted over at BoingBoing. Different logos. Different spacing. And ... different pricing? Wonder if item #1 on both developer's list is "Fight!"? Updated: We've spotted some more amusingly duped apps. Check out the pics below. More »

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