Managing director Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley is noticing a trend in sales with the advent of the iPhone and iPad, indicating that it might be the end of Mac as we know it. Though let me premise this by saying we know this won’t happen any time soon, and Apple still has a strong interest in maintaining their keystone products.
Apple Losing Interest in Mac with iPhone and iPad?
Distimo’s Latest Report Shows 28% of iPhone Apps Are Free - 57% on Android
Distimo, the startup which is well known for publishing monthly reports about mobile applications on different platforms, published its June 2010 report last week, and shows us how the Android Marketplace is ultimately different from Apple’s App Store.
Snowtape Radio Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Snowtape giveaway.We also want to thank the Vemedio developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.
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Joe Turner
Richard Testani
Fabian Van Schepdael
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Whited00r Brings iOS 4 to iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1st Gen
iOS 4 doesn’t officially support the original iPhone (also known as 2G, Apple announced they were dropping support for it months ago) and the first generation iPod Touch. Italian coder and hacker Federico created a modified version of iPhone OS 3.1.3 which integrates features built-in with iOS 4, and the result is quite interesting.
Apple Launches “Summer Sports” Category in the App Store
Available here [iTunes link] this new section features applications about Golf, Hiking and Running, Sailing, Cycling and Raquet Sports.
Reading Speeds - Is the iPad Really Faster than Printed Books?
Answer: no, but the result is interesting. Basically, the guys over at UseIt wanted to see if tablets really come with faster reading speeds than printed books.
Is the iBooks or Kindle experience really more engaging than old paper?
Save Web Pages to iTunes As PDFs
Yesterday I stumbled upon this tutorial on CNET which shows how you can save a webpage to .PDF, import it in iTunes using Mac OS X’s built-in “print to PDF” functionality and then read it on your iPad / iPhone with iBooks. It’s an interesting hack, which implies creating an iTunes alias and move it into Library/ PDF Services.
I’ve followed the tutorial and I think that it works pretty good if you want to save pages without formatting, focusing only on text - it’s perfect for long articles. But I’d like to be able to save webpages of any kind, not just articles that don’t have images. I want the full web page on my iPad, and I think I’ve found a good solution.
iTunes Accounts Hacked by Vietnamese Developer? [Update: Apps Removed]
This is the Books category in the iPhone App Store, and these are the top paid apps in that category. Notice something weird? There’s a developer who has 40 apps (!) in that chart, and all of them are badly coded Vietnamese comics (manga) apps based on stolen intellectual property (Conan, Dragon Ball).
How is this even possible?