Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
An independent Vietnamese iPhone developer by the name of “Thuat Nguyen” currently has 42 of the top 50 books in the iTunes App Store “Books Category”. Most of these books/apps were released back in April this year and have little to no user ratings at all. Well then how are they dominating this iTunes category?…
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An attorney claims Apple knowingly make an imperfect device – one which is practically designed to drop calls – and then expects owners to cough up extra cash to buy the fix. More: continued here
An FTC filing today revealed that Apple has quietly bought out Siri. The deal gives Apple the creator of an iPhone personal assistant app that can automatically handle common tasks through searches, such as hailing a cab or buying tickets for a movie at a nearby theater. More: continued here
Hindsight bias probably works best when it comes to money. The events that occurred in the past seem to have been more predictable than they really were, and I bet many of you felt it when reading texts explaining how to get rich easily. Well, here comes another such example. More: continued here
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on a roll. While he’s probably had better days than today, he’s lately been shooting off emails left and right in response to customers’ concerns. We just were sent what appears to be one such Jobs response, sent last week surrounding the whole Mark Fiore situation. And it’s a good…
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Are these iPad versions of iPhone games worth it to buy? What if you already own the iPhone version, or are new to the game on any idevice? We’ll let you know for each situation. More: continued here
The Ipad came out on Saturday, and if you weren’t one of the 3 million people standing in line at the Apple store to get one already, then you’re probably wondering what all the fuss is about, and whether you should be buying an Ipad, too. Luckily, we’ve created this flowchart to help you determine…
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One person who has no plans to buy iPad 1.0: James McQuivey, a VP at Forrester Research. While the “Kindle Killer” chant is growing louder among iPad reviewers, he still has lots of love for Amazon. Beyond Amazon, he sees Sony and Google as the iPad’s top competitors. More: continued here
If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn’t for you.If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you’re going to succeed with it is…
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You’ve seen the television commercials and the product reviews.But maybe, like many gadget lovers, you’re still debating whether you really need this new touch-screen computer from Apple.To help you make sense of the hype, here are answers to 12 common questions about the iPad. More: continued here
Apple’s very hyped entry in the eBook business, in the form of its iPad iBooks app, is now live in the App Store.As announced, iBooks allows you to access, buy and read eBooks from Apple’s newly put together library; with the addition of some interesting features.Very conveniently, every iBook comes with a free sample consisting…
We’ve known for some time that Apple would like to cram a projector into its next iPhone, but are they on track to really do so? It looks that way, at least according to a handful of patents Apple has applied for. More: continued here
Going out on the town with your iPhone is great. Want to see a movie? Buy tickets in advance from your device. How about making dinner reservations? There’s an app for that too. But wouldn’t it be cool to pay for your dining or drinking tab from your iPhone? A new app called TabbedOut from developer…
Seemingly out of nowhere, TechCrunch is reporting that ngmoco was able to raise another $25 million in funding (totaling $40.6 million) and went out and purchased Freeverse with it. ngmoco intends to apply their love it or hate it free-to-play model to all of Freeverse’s current and future iPhone games, which will allow them to…
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Grocery iQ is a full featured grocery list app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. When I bought it in the summer of 2009 it wasn’t associated with Coupons Inc. At that time I felt Grocery iQ swooped in and saved my bacon, so to speak. But, since the buyout, and the updates have things…