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Tag Archives: iPhone
When is “the best price” for customers not “the best price” for customers?
The Sage Gruber’s contortions to position Apple’s subscription pricing scam as “good for consumers” are getting so wild that he’ll be a high-level yoga master before you know it: “Why not allow developers and publishers to set their own prices … Continue reading
I couldn’t have put it better myself
Mathew Ingram, writing for GigaOm: “Call it a deal with the devil or whatever you want, but Apple is the one that came up with devices that are so appealing, and a content-distribution model that is so effective, that it … Continue reading
WiFi tethering and the iPhone: Battery life?
John Brownlee at CoM: “It seems likely, then, that as soon as the Verizon iPhone comes out, Apple will pump an official iOS update for all devices down the pipeline, bringing the Hotspot app to all devices, including iPads. Naturally, … Continue reading
I don’t really see why this is worth a story
Brian X. Chen, for Wired: “The company recently approved an iPhone camera app that carries a special feature: the ability to snap a photo by pressing the physical Volume button rather than tapping the touchscreen. Oddly enough, about four months … Continue reading
Google is the carriers’ best-friend
Doc Searles has got a new iPhone, and muses on a few points: “I still see this as a phase, and not a bad one. Apple and Google have together cracked open the unholy death grip that phone makers and … Continue reading
No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem
Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder … Continue reading
Posted in Apple
Tagged App Store, Apple, FutureTap, iPhone, Macintosh, Om Malik, Patent, Steve Jobs
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The myth of “programming is the only creativity”
One of the often-used memes concerning Apple’s approach to iOS is that it’s for “passive consumers”, people who aren’t creative. In an interesting post on Google App Inventor, O’Reilly’s Mike Loukides dredges this one up again – and I think … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, iPhone, Web/Tech
Tagged Apple, Computer programming, Cory Doctorow, Google, Google App Inventor, HyperCard, iPhone, IPhone OS
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RedLaser iPhone app gets bought by eBay, goes free
RedLaser, the barcode and price comparison app that sat at the top of the best-seller list for a while, has been bought by eBay and is now free. What’s more, eBay is going to integrate the technology into its other … Continue reading
Marketing Week Live goes all iPhone AR crazy
I’m pretty skeptical about augmented reality applications in general, but there are some occasions when I think they’re actually quite useful. Events, for example, are a particular case where AR makes sense. The location is relatively small, but there’s usually … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone, Marketing, Mobile, Publishing
Tagged Augmented reality, iPhone, marketing, MWL2010, Technology
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Magic Mac-ball says: No way!
I try not to get into the predictions game (partly because I’m too-often wrong) but I’m willing to bet that this little snippet from LOOPrumors is completely wrong: “LOOPRumors received a tidbit of information today suggesting Apple is planning to … Continue reading
