Oh, Shoemaker - what are you doing? First you forget to tell the world (and Steve) about your iWiz accomplishments, and now you approve Nintendo rip-offs in the App Store? What’s going on?
Nintendo NES Games in the App Store? Not Exactly
Hey, Nokia: Where Have I Seen This Before?
Because you know, Apple once used the “iPhone is about connecting people” expression in a promo video and Nokia was mad at Steve and Ive. Now that you remember that, take a look at the image below.
No, it’s not what you think! It’s not a Macbook-inspired phone. Oh no, not at all.
Let’s just say that’s…”understanding what consumers want and give it to them”.
Verizon to Stream Live TV to your iPad
Consider this: you’re watching only the most important football game between the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2011 Superbowl. Your chicken-wing-sauce encrusted fingers clench as Stroughter penetrates the red zone. Jaws drop. A beer bottle passes hands into unknown territory. And just as the moment of disbelief strikes a cord with the goal line, a lamp shade is tossed through the center of the 30” plasma. Instinctively, you reach for the iPad tucked between the salsa bowl and the guacamole, launch the Verizon FiOS app, and within seconds, catch the touchdown of cosmic proportions while the TV is still reeling from your best friend’s misplaced wide-arm. Anything is possible with the new Verizon FIOS app for the iPad.
Hibari, for When You Get Sick and Tired of Hearing About Justin Bieber
It’s that time of year again. Another twitter client has come to challenge the mantle that Tweetie 1, the twitter app equivalent of StarCraft, has held since its release in April of ’09.
Search Tool: Visual Google & Bing for iPad
That of “visual apps” on the iPad seems to be an unstoppable trend. In fact, I think we’re going to see visual takes on old concepts for quite a while. Yes, Flipboard is just the start.
Search Tool is a new app that lets you search Google, Bing an Yahoo in a rather innovative way, exclusively for iPad.
MacStories & Taptivate Giveaway: $100 iTunes Gift Card Up for Grabs!
You’ve probably already heard that the guys over at Taptivate are working on a new iPhone application, Contacts+ (the app was previously known as “Contacts”). Taptivate hasn’t released many details yet, but we know that Contacts+ will allow you to check on your Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin in one place. We’re really looking forward to it.
Taptivate has teamed up with MacStories to give you the chance of winning a $100 iTunes Gift Card. One card, one winner.
What do you have to do to enter the contest? Simple: head over taptivate.com/contacts and sign up to the newsletter using a valid and active email address. Then, leave a comment to this post and let us know what you’d like to do with $100 in your iTunes account. Apps? Music? TV Shows?
The winner will be announced on Friday, August 20th.
Good luck!
Office for Mac 2011, Now With More Compatibility Tools [Video]
Why does every promo video remind me of Apple recently?
Oh, anyway: perfect compatibility between Office for Mac and Office for Windows. New “Sparklines” feature and more photo editing capabilities.
Yay?
Even The App Store Director Sells Fart Apps
This is a good one. Really, could you imagine that App Store director Phillip Shoemaker, the guy who’s in charge of accepting and rejecting apps, sells his own fart and urination simulator apps in the App Store?
Hey, Apple: The App Store Is Broken.
Last night Cody published his thoughts on iTunes and wireless syncing to devices, a matter we’ve been discussing here at MacStories for a long time. I agree with him (though I’m really not into podcasts as he is), but I want to follow-up by focusing on a secondary point: the App Store navigation.
Google is copying Apple, but the App Store is broken. I can’t believe that after 2 years of existence Apple still hasn’t fixed many of the issues that affected the App Store back in 2008. In fact, they added even more.