Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em, boys! Some of the earliest implementers of Apple’s in-app advertising platform, iAds, are reporting stellar results with at least one dev saying he earned more than fourteen-hundred on the first day. However, the good times may not last
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Different day, different app category, but it sure seems like deja vu. At least one iTunes customer has reported that he received purchase receipts for apps he didn’t buy. However, all mentions of the offending developer and his apps have already been removed from the store.
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Apple and FedEx were kind enough to deliver my new iPhone 4 ten days ahead of schedule, though I did have to drive to FedEx to get it, and as a result I have some first impressions to get off my chest.
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The popular chain says they’ll be putting on a little dog n’ pony show that will feature, among other things, a new iPod touch with a camera very much like the one in the new iPhone 4. Why would the mothership favor some Brit storefront for a prerelease announcement? Well, actually, they wouldn’t.
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With this stroke Google has obviated native iPhone YouTube app, which puts user eyeballs back squarely where searchzilla wants them — looking at ads. I suspect that if the roles had been reversed with Apple moving mobile web video from an ad-free format to one loaded with ads and tracking, there would have been an uproar.
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With visions of death grips and proximity sensors dancing in their heads, users (and almost users) of the iPhone 4 must be wondering which of the conflicting information to place the faith in, flaw-wise.
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Adam Curry first rose to fame as an MTV VJ over 20 years, then caught his second wind as a pioneering podcaster in the naughties, earning the title of “podfather.” Now, he’s back again with an app that’s really a video podcast whose aim is to help iPhone owners make sense of the 200,000-plus available apps — a tall order in an already crowded marketplace.
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With Apple selling millions of iPhone 4 handsets during the first weekend of availability, one has to wonder exactly what all of those million users are doing with the older model that the new iPhone replaced.
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We’ve all read the news that it “only” costs Apple — i.e. pay for the bits n’ pieces and then put ‘em together — less than a third of the retail price to manufacture an iPhone 4. Of course, this is only a small fraction of the mothership’s total cost for bringing out this product, though such analysis doesn’t get much ink.
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Whenever Apple or its products have a problem, it gets blown absurdly out of proportion and the brouhaha iPhone 4 antenna is a case in point. However, at least one journalist has done some real science and that evidence now been examined by another real journalist, who reached the same conclusions.
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