Notably is reminiscent of iBooks. They’re very simple things: they display beautiful pages; allow you to select gorgeous fonts and change font size; plus, the experience is just great. Notably for the iPad is an elegant notepad that could be considered an upgrade from Apple’s own notes.
Apple to be America’s Largest Company by Stock Market Value
Apple has had an incredibly successful run in the stock market, and currently they’re positioned to take on the likes of Microsoft and Exxon. Economically Apple isn’t that strong, finishing at an underwhelming 42nd. But in stock market value, Apple’s raised some eyebrows.
Tom’s Hardware Investigates Steam Performance on Mac
Spoiler: Windows wins. The Mac isn’t built to play games, and the response is that people who play games casually will pick something up on the computer, while serious gamers will float towards consoles. While I’d strongly argue that this is a big “negative” and that console gaming is simply more accessible, the problem here is with OpenGL and how OS X accesses hardware via “half-baked” driver bottlenecks. Also, Mac player’s consistently have trouble AWP’ing n00bs with their Magic Mouses.
Apple Patents Social Workflows
What’s a social workflow you ask? Heck if I know! These confounded devices transmit everything these days. But I will tell ya, the future is looking bleak if Apple gets in bed with Facebook.
Fare City is an Incredibly Addictive, Taxi Management Game
This weekend I came across a little iPhone game called Fare City. While I don’t know or understand the full story behind Fare City; I guess it was shuffled between a few different developers; It’s back in possession of the original creators, Finkly Interactive (no relation). But asides from all the drama, the game itself is really fantastic, and I couldn’t count the hours I wasted on this thing yesterday. I think my iPod touch officially has a concave shape to it after it practically melted in my fingers.
iPhone to Oust Blackberry in Corporate World?
In news I didn’t expect to hear for quite awhile, the iPhone is starting to make some noise in the corporate sector. Standard Chartered is offering 75,000 employees the opportunity to ditch their Blackberry’s for one of Apple’s luxurious devices, though is one company really enough to break news for? Sure, if that company is involved in global initiate to get other banks to follow through. RIM might not have anything to worry about after all, but this should raise an eyebrow at what could be a future trend. While we won’t see the iPhone’s best enterprise features until OS 4.0 is available to the public, it’ll be interesting to see what effect that has, if any, on our corporate overlords.
[via 9 to 5 Mac]
96 iPhone Developer Sales Exposed
Should you develop for the iPhone App Store? That’s the million dollar question, considering Apple’s stringent policies on everything from what code you can use to what you can sell; how top-selling, well marketed apps dominate the market; and how demanding App Store customers purchase then (sometimes unfairly) rate rather good applications. I’ve seen a lot of cases where an excellent iPhone application appears as version one, but gets a terrible rating since it isn’t as polished or full featured as a version five competitor. It sucks that people are as mean spirited to say, “Give me this feature and I’ll give you five stars,” but these are all things you have to deal with in the App Store.
I’ve always considered the App Store to be a money tree. People will practically buy anything if it costs a dollar, and even if you make something completely shitty, someone still bought your application. While it’s the good apps that continue to make serious revenue, it’s possible to put a few bucks in your pocket. But if you were to make a living or develop a business around the App Store, would it be worth your time and investment? Tech Crunch took the dive.
Android Coming to iPod touch
We’ve seen Android work successfully on an iPhone 3G, but what about your iPod touch? I was thrilled to hear the Android might be making its way to our favorite handhelds, as the iPod touch would be the perfect test bench for current iPhone and iPod touch owners to try out a competing operating system. Having the ability to dual boot would be perfect for reviewers like me, which would give me the ability to retain some mobile functionality if I ever left the Droid for the next iPhone.
Redmond Pie has the full scoop here.
Steve Jobs: “What have you done that’s so great?”
Apple and Gawker Media seem to have a fatal attraction that continues to plunge into a death spiral. If it wasn’t bad enough that Gizmodo’s asshole antics ruined the reputation of an Apple employee, or slimy/shady deals involving a good scoop, Gawker Contributing Editor Ryan Tate engaged in a heated discussion with Steve Jobs himself yesterday evening.