Latest data from analytics firm, Distimo, suggests that not only do iPhone users have more apps to choose from, but, dollar for dollar, they get a whole lot more for the money.
While this may not be so great for developers in terms of making the most they can, the popularity of Apps on the iPhone mean iPhone users actually do purchase and use their apps.
In conjunction with this morning
Music industry bible, Billboard, has announced Billboard Live, a new service streaming live music events to iPhones and online.
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Livestream today announced the immediate availability of its free service for streaming live to the iPhone and iPod touch, Livestream Procaster, a great new solution which lets users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop, directly to iPhone users over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.
The streaming service uses the H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality included within the native QuickTime player that Apple has pre-installed on the iPhone.
What this means that Livestream producers do not need to obtain iPhone App Store approval to launch their own iPhone live streaming channel, nor do their viewers need to install any application as streams can be viewed using the iPhone
In the same week Facebook.app developer, Joe Hewitt, gives up working on the app, Apple has made its App Store approval process ever so slightly less Baroque, pushing out a new system by which developers can keep an eye on their app applications.
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Merely because there seems to be lots of interest (at least among techy types) in the device, we thought we
Silicon Alley Insider charts Apple’s cash hoard today. It is interesting to note that Apple was paying off a lot of debt in the earlier parts of the chart. Also, Apple’s cash reserves really started to skyrocket when they set the iPhone loose. Apple can already buy a company the size of Dell with their cash and short term investments. What are they saving all of this money for?
Joe Hewitt, the developer of Facebook.app for the iPhone has resigned according to his Twitter account. Facebook’s iPhone app is one of the most popular and one of only a handful installed on more than 50% of all iPhones and iPod touches.
He didn’t give reason for the move but said he handed the job off to another developer. He will stay on as a Facebook developer working on other projects (*cough* tablet*).
Apple today issued a security update for Safari. Hit your software update or head here for more details.
This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:
– Improved JavaScript performance
– Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
– Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
The Miami New Times today profiles the Pystar founders and their goal to sell cloned Macs. Obviously controversial in the Apple community, the paper paints a David vs. Goliath picture of the duo while getting a few of the facts slightly off.
For instance:
Robert cracked the code behind Apple Computer’s elegant operating system, OS X. It’s the engine that drives iPhones, MacBooks, and all the other shiny white toys the world loves. For more than a decade, the Silicon Valley firm has coded its operating system to work only on the firm’s expensive hardware.
Could be written as:
Robert used Hackintosh code..
Regardless of how you feel about Psystar, it is a somewhat interesting read, just to get a sense of the faces behind the company that is fighting Apple to install their OS on big black boxes.
Update: Microsoft has issued some sort of “clarification” – you can read its incredible denial of the obvious under this story below…
We reckon a lot of Mac users will be dashing across to read PCR
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You remember the T-Pain App, right? Sure you do, it managed to get to 10,000 downloads a day – now there
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Strategy Analytics believes Apple to have became the world
Adobe announced a layoff today in an 8-K filing made with the Securities & Exchange Commission. They will release 680 fulltime workers or 9% of its workforce over the next year.
On November 10, 2009, we announced a workforce reduction to appropriately align our costs in connection with our 2010 operating plan (the
Truth be told, we’ve kinda stopped checking the iTunes Store for HD Movies. It’s been a long while since we’ve seen some good content and frankly there are other means of renting/buying that make more sense.
That might finally be about to change. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler points to the store saying they’ve finally been doing some updating with content we might actually want. Siegler says:
Apple has just added a range of HD movies available for purchase on iTunes. Here
The iPhone juggernaut shows no sign of slowing. Orange, who are selling the iPhone for the first time today in the UK, reported sales of at least 30,000 in its first day. Apple has been selling the iPhone, iPhone 3G and now the iPhone 3GS on the O2 network for two years so it is interesting to see so much pent up demand on another carrier (Apple…are you getting ideas for the US here?). There were also concerns that Orange’s network policies might alienate prospective customers.
Vodaphone will soon offer the iPhone in the UK as well.
Apple was just catching up to demand at the end of last quarter for the iPhone 3GS. It appears demand is still strong.
Meanwhile, in the US where we have five times the population of the UK, analysts estimate that the Motorola Droid sold 100,000 units in its worldwide debut over the Friday/Sat/Sunday weedend. Verizon had 200,000 on hand and Verizon store owners polled said they had sold about half of their inventory. Those same analysts expect Motorola to sell a million Droid handsets in the coming year.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has introduced a host of enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based offerings within its latest batch of Blu-ray releases.
The studio has announced the release of Blu-ray versions of Bruno, Funny People, 9, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Public Enemies, and Inglourious Basterds, these will ship by Christmas.
All the discs include the pocket BLU app, which offers iPhone and iPod users touch further enhancements to the Blu-ray experience, and social BLU, which offers Blu-ray users more ways to interact with their Facebook and Twitter networks through an Internet-connected Blu-ray player.
Craig Kornblau, President of Universal Studios Home Entertainment said, “By bridging Blu-ray’s vast capabilities with the Internet, iPhone, iPod touch and some of the hugely popular social networking platforms, we are effectively taking the Blu-ray experience to the next level, offering consumers the opportunity to easily integrate their favorite films into those activities and devices that have become part of their everyday lifestyle.”
pocket BLU uses the device’s Wi-Fi connection to work seamlessly with a network-connected Blu-ray player and offers the following advanced features:
The pocket BLU app will be made available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch. It doesn’t appear to be available at the App Store at this time, but our information suggests its pending – perhaps it’s lost in Apple’s Byzantine App Store approval process…
AT&T continues to claim it will offer tethering support to iPhone users on its network – but remains completely non-committal when it comes to offering any concrete date for introduction of the same. We were told to take any references to tethering in 2009 out of our posts last month so we’ve given up on seeing it this year, even though AT&T is adverising new Laptop Connect services as we speak.
It has been a year since the carrier promised tethering would be enabled for US iPhone users,
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Those RFID-reading iPhone stories just keep spinning around, boosted by news that Apple staff now wield iPod touch-based payment taking systems. It
Recall the story of the giant semi-legal iPod ad on the side of a Boston building? A story which seemed to hint at all sorts of political intrigue as Apple attempted to secure permission to carry the gigantic ad…
Well, just to keep the near 4,000 readers of the original report in the loop, news today is that that self-same ad is gone, torn down, evicted by Boston