Archive | January 13th, 2010
Gruber adds credence to BGR report of “out of control” multitouch Tablet
Earlier today, BGR relayed the following about Apple’s rumored tablet: The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.” It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU It runs on the iPhone kernel. The internal model number is K48AP. There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS […]
Continue reading...App Store Piracy costs developers and Apple $450 million
13. January 2010
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24/7 Wall Street reports that piracy of iPhone apps has cost developers over $450 million in proceeds. This, of course, assumes that all pirates would have otherwise purchased the apps by legal means. There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid […]
Continue reading...Apple already has patent for more informative iPhone homescreen
13. January 2010
Not too long ago, the folks over at teehanlax provided some pretty compelling mockups of an overtly more informative and useful iPhone home screen (when locked). And some vertical scrolling action would also be a nice touch… Apple obviously isn’t going to let any third party developer screw with its homescreen, but don’t fear that Apple doesn’t see […]
Continue reading...Apple Tablet to be “iPhone on Steroids”
13. January 2010
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Citing a reliable Apple source, Boy Genius Report earlier today dropped a number of interesting tidbits about the forthcoming Apple tablet. The source claims that the multi-touch gestures are “out of control”, that the device will be powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU, and that the tablet will run on the iPhone kernel. Notably, […]
Continue reading...Google sells just 20,000 units of the Nexus One
13. January 2010
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Despite an onslaught of hype, the Nexus One “super-smartphone” from Google failed to impress in its first week, selling just 20,000 units in its first week according to the market analytics firm Flurry. Flurry monitors the usage of more than 10,000 developer applications on iPhone and Android platforms. It tracks over 25 million end user […]
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13. January 2010
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