Is it that time already? The App Store is two years old today, marking another successful year of iOS development, the launch of a new platform (the iPad), and a bunch of new great applications we’re lucky enough to review. Happy Birthday App Store!
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Interested in the mythical HP Slate, the compact Dell Streak, an Android powered micro-tablet, or something called a Netpad? Why not try an iPad?
While I wasn’t able to reproduce the advertising on Google.com, TechCrunch is right when they say that Google.co.uk results show iPad Google AdWords when you search for any of the above terms. I don’t know what Apple has to fear from the European market; the Dell Streak and gimmicky Android tablets shouldn’t pose a threat to Cupertino’s empire. I suppose it’s better to be safe than not, but it’s kind of an interesting tactic when the iPad is only the most popular thing on earth besides the iPhone 4.
[via TechCrunch]
Oh boy, this can’t be good. Remember Chatroulette? Someone created some sort of iPhone 4 version, which allows you to connect with strangers using the iPhone’s front-facing camera.
The service is not affiliated with Chatroulette, but I won’t be surprised to see this app become an official client sometimes in the future.
You can download iChatr for free in the App Store.
We know that Apple is very strict about apps approval process, and we all know the story of applications rejected because of violations of the iPhone Developer Agreement. If you don’t follow the rules, you’re rejected. Simple, right?
There are a few exceptions though, and you can blame the app review team or the lack of more specific rules in the agreement for them. Thing is, sometimes a developer works hard on an application, thinking it’s perfectly compliant to the agreement, and then he sees his app rejected with no understandable reason. Sometimes, someone forces Apple to remove an app - yeah, that happened, too.
Now imagine this: there’s a RSS feed publicly available on Apple’s website and a dev builds an app around it. Anyone could build an app around it, being it a public RSS feed, available for free to everyone. In this case, we’re talking about Apple’s Trailers page and an iPhone app developed by Jonah Grant.
Apple is 50% larger than they were in 2009. They have a revenue of $41 billion, larger than any company in the United States. It’s estimated by the end of 2010, Apple will increase their revenue to a grand total of $63,409 billion. At this rate, they will surpass Exxon as the largest company in America. This is Apple’s Golden Age. Financial analysts, take note: Andy Zaky is incredibly bright when it comes to stock and microeconomics.Be sure to read his full report on Seeking Alpha.
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Allen & Co conference day three. Eric Schmidt and his lackies stand tall at the Sun Valley resort. Announcing that their Chrome PC OS would be released later this year, they also had something to say about competitors Apple and Facebook.
When he’s not riding his Segway with Parth Dhebar, Woz usually talks about Apple. You know, the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs back in the old days.
This time though, he was interviewed by The Seoul Economic Daily and decided to give us an insight on his take on iPhone’s most important competitor.
Color us red – Federico and I were never Fever users until recently. Supposedly we had been missing out on one of the world’s greatest RSS applications, and sequentially we were told to, “Get out.” So both of us bit the bullet a couple weeks ago and dropped the $30 from our paychecks just to see what all of the hype is about. And after a bit of monkeying around with Nearly Free Speech, both of us now have relatively cheap server space to host it all. As a result, we have a review.
