AppAdvice has just posted what it seems a real screenshot of the iBookstore, the place where we’ll be able to purchase our iBooks as soon as the iPad goes out. Well, it turns out that despite Apple taking its usual 30% of revenue from each download, the prices will be similar to Amazon’s Kindle ones - and this could be a real game changer for Apple.
Bad news for Amazon.
The second one is worth a mention here:
“Google is having trouble making money from anything but search, which is why, he says, hardly a week goes by without word of another Google innovation. “Last week it was Google broadband. This week it’s Google TV. It’s all a big joke. Even Android is a joke.”
Beautiful.
Macnn reports:
“As the iPad is incapable of Flash, and blocks cross-domain cookies, more interest is said to lay with in-app advertising. AdMarvel CEO Mahi de Silva notes that the iPhone 3.2 SDK allows for interstitial ads, click-to-connect commands and even video, none of which can be found in present iPhone campaigns. Most iPhone apps rely on small banners or links, which can moreover take people away from whatever content they happened to be looking at.”
Looking forward to Google’s take on this.
I was reading Marco’s latest post about Instapaper for iPad last night, and as I saw the screenshots of the new version I realized something: developers seem to see the bigger screen of the new device only as a way to put more information on screen, rather than a way to lay out information in a different way.
Don’t get me wrong, of course with a bigger screen you’d like to insert more interface elements and stuff - the point is, you don’t necessarily have to. Instead of focusing on how to fill that space with elements that would be located in a different window otherwise, why not thinking about how to explore new ways to present information?
Thanks everyone who entered the Keypoint giveaway. We’d like to thank Bert Timmermans for the promo codes he gave to MacStories.
Here are the winners:
Martin Král
William Bithrey
Olìve
Doob
You’ll receive the licenses in your inbox in a matter of a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week.
In the meantime, you can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet.
And also, be sure to check out our teaser page for the MacStories:Next project. Something magical is coming soon.
If you have an iPhone and you’re not a professional photographer or, at least, you don’t don’t have a pro camera, then I guess you shot a lot of pictures with it. And it’s not that the iPhone keeps you away from shooting pics: good built in camera aside, there are hundreds of photography applications in the App Store and most of them are excellent pieces of software that can power up the iPhone with tons (really, tons) of additional features.
TravelPad is a new application from Counterwinds which allows you to collect and organize your photos in albums using geo location. We’re gonna take a look at it, and - guess what - we’ve got some promo codes to give away.
We all know Webkit is a fantastic engine, just as we all appreciate its 3D capabilities and css transforms effects when we see a well implemented one. But when I thought I had seen everything Webkit could offer (or at least a good part), there I stumbled upon this article on HplusMagazine, describing the Text 2.0 project, an enhanced reading experience that combines (or should, at last) eye tracking, neat javascript and CSS tricks to create a brand new, revolutionary way of reading web content.
Looks good.
