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After launch, It took the iPhone 3G a few weeks to attract its first batch of silly, completely superfluous apps. So how long will it take the iPad? Oh, about -54 days.
Want to know what freshly developed apps for the iPad are going to feel like? Looking through Apple's iPad User Experience Guidelines is surprisingly revealing.
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Very quietly, Apple has expanded iTunes' web presence: Now you can preview iPhone and iPod touch apps in your browser, without opening iTunes, which we saw last November for music.
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It doesn't really matter what you think of the iPad itself, because love it or loathe it, it will irreversibly change the landscape of the App Store. Here's how. More »
In today's Remainders, the tablet-confirming Tweet from a German retailer that wasn't really from a German retailer, a video of the Air Force smushing faces with seven Gs, an iPhone app that keeps track of all those rumors, and more!
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We already know of Acer's intentions to claim dominance of the Chrome OS arena, but they're so confident of Google's success that at least 10 per cent of their netbooks will be pre-loaded with the platform, according to their president.
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In this week's distracted app roundup: Grand Theft Auto, committed! Live video, streamed over 3G! Photos, psycedelicized! Blocks, stacked, smashed, and squeezed through holes! Casual gaming norms, subtly subverted! Spying spouses, caught! Songs, made with magic! Barack, Obama'd! And more... More »
Humming, mouth-strumming, BAH-ing—whatever you call it, it's not singing. But no matter! iPhone app Voice Band cuts even the laziest vocal utterances into multilayer, multi-instrumental songs. $3. [Gizmag]
He isn't the youngest kid to write an iPhone app, but 11-year old Cameron is wise beyond his years. He is donating a substantial part of the proceeds from his drawing app iSketch to the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.
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Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple's App Store absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica.
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Remember the $1000 "I Am Rich" iPhone application? Well, here is another $1000 app that actually does something. If you are an aspiring lawyer, it might actually be a bargain.
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In this week's self-contradictory app roundup: Videos, recorded! Hoops, shot! Stuff, copied and pasted! Photos, LEGO-ed! Navigation, given away! Classic movies, obsessively documented! Marbles, gratuitously exploded! Rivals of Yelp, doomed to die! And more... More »
The untenable direction of the iPhone app ecosystem, shepherded exclusively by Apple, has been apparent to developers for a long time. But coming to a point, it seems, aren't the older problems of reviewer capriciousness—we're talking straight dollars.
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Scouring the App Store for the best games is a full time job. Luckily, it's a job held by the guys over at Touch Arcade. Here are their picks for the best games—and only games—available on the iPhone.More »
You'd think that smartphones would have made traditional credit cards obsolete by now, but since they haven't (in the US, at least), Mophie's iPhone credit card reader may be the next best thing.
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David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here's how they did it: More »
That crazy spike? That's tracking the deluge of apps downloaded by (new) iPod touch owners on Christmas day. The ensuing drop? That's when (new) iPod touch owners realized that eight farting apps was the threshold of the human spirit. [TechCrunch]
Cycling apps are nothing new to the Apple App Store, but this hardware/software combo called Pedal Brain is the first to provide convenient ANT+ wireless device support.
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I want to believe that Medica really did try to cut health care costs with the light saber app, waving their humming iPhones over financial statements while wearing robes. Now that would be a board meeting. [Thanks DaSazonator and Sam]
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