Two version of the same app sitting side by side. One flashes "Get App". The other says "Buy App". Which one would you go for?
Does lite versions help in the sale? Or do they slow down the sale? When should you go for a Lite version?
Spore Origins, one of the offerings by EA and also one of the most famous iPhone/iPod touch games was originally priced at $9.99. Right now, it has a Lite version as well. And that’s not all, giving it company is PacMan Lite as well.
What's happening here is that these Lite versions are soaring up the Read More...
Four years ago, there was no way of watching Election activities and Election results on the palm. Election in the US has gone hi-tech, I am saying this again. Thanks to iPhone application developers, iPhone users are well fed, everything about the election is available in the App Store. There is a staggering number of 30 applications all for Barack Obama and John McCain.
As the clock ticks, the validity of these election applications are nearing their shelving time and the time for knowing our next President is finally coming. While most of the apps are election vote trackers, some apps Read More...
The Apple Commission
I have come across many silly write ups, including mine of course, but never a sillier article like the one recently penned by Ted Dziuba. The article is not only baseless but also is the most mis-conceptualized cracked bunch of assumptions for all times to come, without doubt. Ted labeled Apple as a gangster and App Store as a classic protection racket for retaining 30% from applications sold through App Store. We all know that Apple retains 30% and 70% percent goes to the developers. We also know that the deducted 30% is about enough to maintain the Read More...
What apps do you have on your iPhone? Super Monkey Ball? A word game? Some calculators and flashlights? While the whole process of getting a new app on your iPhone seems devilishly simple—tap on the app store icon, confirm purchase, and wait for a minute—things aren’t always so simple and straightforward for the developers who are working hard to bring you these cool apps. A number of my developer friends have been writing in, eagerly but so far unofficially listing out the problems they have faced.
This article offers a detailed list of all the problems that have plagued the App Read More...
When Steve Jobs/Apple decided to use the LIS302DL accelerometer in the iPhone, iPod Touch and the 4th generation iPod Nano, he was making a digital statement, that the iPhone is here, as a platform for making game controls much sleeker.
iPhone responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer. When you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape, the accelerometer detects the movement and changes the display accordingly. So you immediately see the entire width of a web page, view a photo in its proper aspect ratio, or control a game using only your movements.
Source: Apple
Uses of the accelerometer: When you use the Read More...
Babel fish...is probably the oddest thing in the universe...it absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy... It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix... the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres... The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Your iPhone/iPod touch has currently 168 apps (and counting) to help you out in alien language environments. Some of those are even Read More...
Launch of the first generation iPhone:
June 2007 was the Apocalypse month for RIM, the maker of BlackBerry and other smartphone manufacturers. The iPhone was born, so to say anointed to bring change to the smartphone market. One year down the line, we saw the rebirth of the device, in the form of the iPhone 3G. We still remember how we walked into Apple Stores, carrying an iPod, a cell phone and a PDA and came out with a single device that perform all the functions of the devices once we carry around with great pride. Apple did something great.
The iPhone Read More...
Is this another trick to make Apple market share plunge? Bloomsberg tried to bury Steve Jobs alive when it accidentally published his obituary. Recently, there was this news of Jobs’ severe heart attack and Apple’s market share went downhill. The latest rumor/fact that Mac Pro emits an odor that cause leukemia cancer will be the ultimate killer of Apple market share.
The discussion thread in Apple forum offers many opinions about the emission of smell from a new Mac Pro. Well, the odor in all the reported cases are not the same and the ways of killing the smell are not Read More...
What happens if you are drunk and you are an iPhone user?
Simple. You “touch” everything.
For example, just this weekend, as we finished work, Kevin said Thank God It’s Friday. And declared that he’d make a good weekend of it. So he went ahead and had a whole lot of booze. After that, it seems that he went out for a cool 4 am stroll out there, while carrying an ancient Sony Ericsson phone as one of his friends was in the middle of a pretty exciting Super Monkey ball session on his iPhone 3G. On the way Read More...
In matter of months the number of applications in the App Store has gone up to all time high. The total number of applications has crossed 4000 out of which 1113 are games. Now, the main concern as a buyer is how to select the best games? For free applications taking a wrong decision is not disastrous, however, buying a paid and a useless application is just burning your pocket. You cannot try out a game to make your purchase decision. The reviews were not helpful either, before Apple implemented that ‘purchase to comment policy.’ Now it’s good that only Read More...