Although Apple is still dominant in the mobile space, Android is quickly gaining ground. Read more
Developers More Interested In Android Than iOS
The New Yorker iPad App Launches
The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast, was released today for iPad. Read the editors’ note about the app.
What’s cool: A video with Jason Schwartzman (directed by Roman Coppola) demonstrating the app, and the use of the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe. What’s not cool - $5 an issue; a printed subscription is way cheaper. Demo video after the break. Read more
Found Footage: iOS 4.1 Jailbreak on iPod Touch 4G
Earlier today the Dev Team posted a new entry on their official blog showing a video of the upcoming “SHAtter” exploit making possible to jailbreak iOS 4.1 The video shows a jailbroken iPod Touch 4th generation with Cydia installed and running, root access and battery percentage enabled. Read more
Rampant View Headcam: $34.95. Dental surgery: $10000. Getting 100,000 views for your first-person faceplant? Priceless.
iPod Nano Headcam.: For When You Want People To Really Feel That Faceplant!
Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences→
Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences
Gourmet Live is something new, and interesting, and I’m excited that Gourmet Live is doing so well — as I write this, it’s the #1 iPad Lifestyle app in the store, and just below the Top 10 for free apps overall. But I’m far more proud of the ideas that inform and inspire it, because while the app is just in its very first version, the ideas are deep enough to support Gourmet Live evolving into something truly fantastic. So I thought I’d offer a little peek behind the scenes, because I think it represents something new, and it’s gonna take a ton of insight from a bigger community to help it reach its potential.
As John Gruber reminds us, Gourmet is now only an iPad app.
‘Free’ iPhones for UK Medical Students
The United Kingdom’s Leeds University is ‘giving’ Apple iPhone 3GSs to its fourth and fifth-year medical students in a new educational initiative. The University’s press release published the message that ‘Generation Y’ student doctors are skipping textbooks for iPhones. Read more
Jackass Of The Week: Ansa.it→
Jackass Of The Week: Ansa.it
Italian news agency “Ansa” fails at reporting a complaint from the “Osservatorio Antiplagio” against an iPhone app called “What Country” (link) which associates “mafia” to Italy. In a brief paragraph, Ansa doesn’t provide details about the OA complaint and instead states that Apple itself released the app “for iphone, ipod and ipad”. Google translation here.
This is journalism. [via Mauro Marchesi]
Coming Soon: A Dropbox Powered Social Network
I love Dropbox and I see many new apps and services come out every day, but a social network based on Dropbox and living in your Mac menubar? Sounds even weirder than a social network living in your iTunes sidebar! Oh wait. Read more
iAds - 21% of Mobile Market by Year’s End?
First let me take a minute to point something out. A few weeks ago Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO, told Reuters the iAd system will “fall apart for them.” Boo hoo Yahoo. Okay, let’s move on, but nice try Carol!
By the end of 2010, Apple is predicted to have matched Google in the percent of ads in the mobile market at 21%. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, “Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have swiftly lost share in the U.S. mobile advertising market to Apple’s new iAd(s).” Google’s share will drop to 21 percent, from 27 percent last year. Yahoo will drop to 9 percent, from 12 percent last year. Microsoft will drop to 7 percent, from 10 percent. (numbers by researcher IDC) Read more