As I sit amid the melt and slush of a sunny Philadelphia Sunday afternoon news comes that Apple’s zeitgeist defining smartphone is particularly popular with the under 17 and over 55 demographics. Android and webOS, on the other hand, score better among the flabby middle.
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With the release of the Apple iPad tablet computer just a few weeks away, it makes sense to ask if the iPad can duplicate the level of success of the iPhone and iPad Touch, which have been wildly popular since their release.
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Pretty much wherever you look around the world, except here in the land of milk and Honey Nut Cheerios, iPhone users have some degree of carrier choice. Even in tiny Taiwan, which is about the same size as Maryland (with about 23 million people crammed in), is gaining a second carrier from next month.
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The latest version of the iphone software development kit (SDK), including iPad tools, was released but was temporarily pulled back for unknown reasons, then was once again made available on the development site.
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Maybe it’s because I’m not 14 anymore or maybe because the apps in question were just that frickin’ lame. Whatever the case you won’t hear me lament Apple’s latest capricious application of its App Store nanny powers.
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It looks like there is pretty definitive evidence that the next version of the iPhone operating system is going to include support for video chat in its SDK, presaging the existence of a second iPhone camera.
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One of the understated ways that the Apple iPhone has changed the smartphone business is the way it manages power, which has led to devices copying this cutting edge feature and left network carriers, especially AT&T, scrambling for ways to cope with the follow effects.
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What was once Google has become Google again, or that’s one way of looking at this odd turn of events. However, searchzilla’s plans for reMail aren’t known, though you’ve got to wonder why they pulled the iPhone app.
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The BBC has said that it plans to release its own newsreader app for the iPhone in April, with similar apps to follow for sports and other subjects, a move which has angered other U.K. newspaper publishers.
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Optimism continues to creep into (and seep out of) Apple’s relationship with AT&T. Here’s another anecdote that perhaps indicates the worst is over for the nation’s number two wireless carrier and the mothership’s exclusive iPhone partner.
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