Ok, so Apple has been filing a lot of trademarks lately. I guess that’s good news, they have a lot of stuff coming up and they want to protect it. We’ve seen icons, trackpads, devices, multitouch technologies - today Slashgear has found out that Apple filed a trademark for the “stinctive design and layout” of Apple retail stores.
Apple Files Trademark For…The Apple Store Design
Display Recorder for iPhone, Perfect for Screencasts
Ryan Petrich (developer of many Cydia apps like ProSwitcher, Inspell and Action Menu) has released a new utility called Display Recorder which allows you to capture high quality video of your iPhone.
iPad apps: Get Ready for the Second Wave
Andy Ihnatko over at Macworld:
“The iPad has been available for a few weeks now and I’m disappointed to find that one of my predictions seems to be coming true: the iPad won’t truly be “out” for another few months, when developers have finally had enough time with a real iPad in their hands to design true iPad-focused apps. Most of the freshman class seem to be either embiggened editions of iPhone hits or apps that bear the fingerprints of mouse-and-keyboard user interface design.
The brilliance of the iPad is the understanding that many notebook features aren’t relevant in a slate computer. I’m likely to use external hard drives and printers with a notebook. Not so with a slate. So why bother cutting three USB ports into it, and adding all kinds of troublesome third-party device drivers to the OS? And why bother adding all kinds of features to an app that will only be used 1% of the time, and which ruin the clean lines of the interface every time the app is launched?”
Twitter for iPhone Finally Available in the U.S. Store, Reviewed
It took a while, but now Twitter for iPhone is finally available in the US App Store as well. This is the official link. (check for updates if the link doesn’t work)
The application comes as a free update and has a new icon, unlike the screenshots we saw last night about the app keeping the old Tweetie icon.
The iPhone is More Awesome than Space Travel.
I think people are gradually getting bored with the notion of space travel. It was cool to think about how we could populate Mars in the 1960s, but now it’s just a pipe dream that’s certainly not going to be accomplished in our lifetimes. So of course the iPhone is more important than space travel - it gets stuff done. Unlike space travel, which really hasn’t gone anywhere.
iPhone Sales Up 112% in First Quarter of 2010
Who says the iPhone market is dying? Amongst all the Android hubbub, Apple is gaining new footholds in the UK, China, and South Korea, leading to a 8.4 million units sold. In only a year, Apple has gone from a market share of 1.5 percent to 2.7 percent, and they aren’t slowing down any time soon. With the impending release of next iPhone in only a matter of months, and the possible addition of new carriers in the US, Apple’s sales are expected to substantially increase, but can they surpass companies like Nokia and Samsung in world market share?
[via The Loop]
The iPhone 4G, Now White
MacRumors has posted a picture from Taiwanese forum Apple.pro which shows an iPhone 4G with a white front panel. Apple has offered iPhone models with white back before, but a front panel would be really good news.
iPod Touch with Camera Leaked in Vietnam
Did you know that “leak” is a Vietnamese word? Not really, but it seems like every new Apple product is coming out from there first these days.
Today, we have a leak of an iPod Touch with camera, which is as mythical as unicorn tears - if you’ve been in the Apple-related news loop for a while now. There are pictures and videos, tour of Vietnamese cafè included. It’s a 2MP camera and the device is running a diagnosis firmware we’ve seen in action before.
Check it out after the break.
More on iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4: Camera Flash for iPod and iPad, 10.7 Mentions
The good folks over at 9to5mac have discovered some interesting code references in the latest OS beta that seem to confirm that the iPod Touch will indeed have a Flash camera. But what about the iPad? Yeah, it is mentioned too - maybe the 2nd gen will really have a camera with flash included.
Last, 10.7 is finally officially mentioned by Apple in the SDK. Check out the screenshots after the break.