When CEO Rob Glaser very publicly announced his company was submitting an iPhone app for App Store approval, nearly everyone assumed Apple’s censors would reject it, providing some down low publicity for Real’s also ran Rhapsody music service. Lo and behold, their app hasn’t been rejected and is now certain to slide into ignominious obscurity.
This dot-fix is 90 percent about making your iPhone or iPod touch play nicely with the changes with iTunes and the iTunes Store. Therein, the feature that makes me grin deviantly is the ability to manage apps on my Mac, which is simply sweet given the big Swedish hands I inherited (didn’t get the ears, though).
The saga of the Commodore 64 emulator, the iPhone, and the app store continues, once again highlighting the problems that surround the Apple iPhone application approval process.
When it comes to getting the job done, the best tool isn’t always commercial and don’t be afraid to spend a little money on the right software — there are some truly awesome apps on Apple’s iTunes App Store. From iPhone games and entertainment apps to news and reference titles for your iPod touch, here’s our take on the best of the best.
There are dozens of iPhone apps covering urban transit, schedules and related ephemera. Whether these apps are official or come from an independent developer, free or pay to play, there’s never been a public pissing match like this over what is publicly owned and published information.
A Danish mobile consulting group has released a report stating that while the iPhone may be popular with many users, it is not really making any money from those carriers that sell it.
Given the iPhone’s 99 percent overall customer satisfaction rating, it shouldn’t be too surprising that soccer moms are transmogrifying into iPhone moms, taking to the device like yuppies to Volvos. From shopping lists and on-the-go price comparisons to GPS enabled Google Maps and life-saving medical data, the iPhone is increasingly the go to device for people on the go.
The TomTom app for the iPhone is one half of a one-two combination punch. Much of the power of the punch is lost without the car kit, which has been delayed until October, along with its functionality.
When Ma Bell announced that it would launch multimedia messaging, which allows users to send instant messages with image and video files attached, by late Summer 2009, most of us assumed they would just manage to squeeze in under the wire. Well, the Fall equinox occurs on Sept. 22 this year, three days before the wireless carrier will get it together — close enough?
The one problem users say that vexes them most is not interface stupidity, crashing, incompatibilities, lack of software, crap build quality or any of the things that commonly get said about other smartphones; it’s battery life. That is, users can’t put the darned things down long enough to charge them.
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