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Emotion Tugging
When I watched the new iPhone 4 commercial at Apple’s iPhone 4 unveiling, I knew that Apple had a new hit commercial on their hands. Now Apple has unveiled four more commercials touting the iPhone 4’s FaceTime feature.
I saw one journalist write about these new ads, and the fact that his (almost) Luddite friend wanted [...]
iPad Killer App
Many platforms only start to become really popular and gain traction when it gets a killer app. An app that is so compelling, it is worth investing in the platform just in order to be able to use that app. A killer app can also be an app that takes an existing platform to a [...]
Apple Announces iPad
Recently Apple introduced the iPad to a waiting world. The commentary I’ve seen has been mostly negative, but I don’t think this product is going to fail.
Could it use some changes? Sure it could. A camera would have been really nice. Multi-tasking would have been especially nice. (Imagine having several running iPhone apps embedded [...]
Nice Rebuttal
This is a nice little rebuttal video someone made to a recent attack ad against the iPhone.
Pricing Apps: More is Better
AppsFire recently did some work trying to determine which apps on Apple’s AppStore are the most profitable? Surprisingly, it’s not the cheapo $0.99 apps that are making all the money (through volume, everyone assumes). It’s the high quality apps that charge more:
This list computed using the simple UNITS SOLD x UNIT PRICE formula may yield [...]
New Website
I bought a theme for use here, just because I think it was about time I made this place look a little more professional.
You can see some featured apps and a featured client on the main page, and soon I’ll be creating a portfolio pages that showcases all of the iPhone apps that I’ve worked [...]
Yelp Augments My Reality
Robert Scoble just informed the world that Yelp includes an augmented reality feature! As I had just re-downloaded Yelp the other day, it was already on my iPhone. All you’re supposed to do is shake it three times, and the new Monocle feature will be activated. But I had a little problem doing so, and [...]
Cool Looking Apps like Groups
I was perusing an article about iPhone apps with nice interfaces again today, and decided to download one of them. After all, I’m a sucker for a nice GUI, and I bought Convert just for the purpose of checking out its GUI.
But the app I’m talking about this time is Groups. I just moved [...]
Push a Bust?
Recently I’ve bought two push notification apps: Boxcar and GPush. I’ve been happy with neither of them.
Boxcar has already been around for a bit and I’ve seen a lot of reviews online that say it “just works”. That’s not my experience. I have enabled push notifications on my phone. I have enabled push notifications [...]
What Apple will Not Announce
[UPDATE: Well, it looks like I totally got this one wrong! Not only does the iPhone 3G(S) have a faster processor, it also supports OpenGL ES 2.0 while the original iPhone 3G will only continue to support OpenGL ES 1.1. OpenGL ES 2.0 games will not run on OpenGL ES 1.1 machines. This is more [...]