How often should the App Store ask for your iTunes password? When you buy an app or game in the App Store, book in the iBookstore, or music, movies or TV shows in iTunes, you’re asked for your iTunes password before the transaction goes through and the download begins. That’s important when there’s money involved. [...]
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How often should the App Store ask for your iTunes password? [Poll]
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
How to create stunning panoramic photographs with your iPhone
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
With your iPhone you have one of the best 4:3 compact cameras in the world, but what happens when the world you want to capture isn’t 4:3? What happens when you come across a gorgeous scene — the Golden Gate bridge at sunset, the Manhattan skyline at dawn, the crystal-clear island beach, the magnificent Old [...]
Apple and publishers reportedly willing to abandon iBooks “agency model” to appease Justice Department
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
Under the traditional book-selling model, retailers like B&N, Amazon, and others could get 50% or more of the revenue from the sale of a book. Under Apple’s “agency model”, they get 30%. The traditional model is retailer-centric. Apple’s model is publisher-centric. This upsets the US Justice Department. Why? Because under the old model, the retailer [...]
All I would have wanted was a faster iPad
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
I’ve mentioned this several times already on the iPhone & iPad Live podcast, in the new iPad round-table, and on Twitter, but I wanted to get something up here as well. The Retina display is great, but I’m not a designer or a photographer and I still read more on a computer and on paper [...]
Apple, Google, and the value of iOS
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
Google continues to enjoy a unique position in the mobile space — they make money off of pretty much every platform. If you use their own, freely licensed Android platform, they earn revenue off of advertising. If you use anyone else’s platform, including Apple’s iOS on the iPhone or iPad, Google still earns revenue off [...]
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Comments OffForums: Editing photos on the new iPad, Paper vs Procreate
Posted by ryan on March 31st, 2012
Found an interesting article you want to share with iMore? Have a burning question about that feature you just can’t figure out? There is ALWAYS more happening just a click away in the forums. You can always head over and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of [...]
RIM complains about Apple stacking vote for nano-SIM standard
Posted by ryan on March 30th, 2012
Despite offering to license the nano-SIM standard royalty-free, Apple is getting flak from RIM for recruiting additional proxies in the voting process. Nokia had made similar complaints when Apple initially made the proposal to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Here’s what RIM had to say about Apple employees taking voting spots for SK Telekom, Bell Mobility, and KT. [...]
Foxconn workers not happy about overtime hours being cut
Posted by ryan on March 30th, 2012
The Fair Labor Association’s report about working conditions at Foxconn, Apple’s primary manufacturing partner, vouched that workers would see fewer overtime hours without a change in pay, but employees aren’t convinced that they’ll be able to keep the same level of income. A few workers commented at the factory gates on being allowed a maximum [...]
How to play your favorite Facebook games on your new iPad
Posted by ryan on March 30th, 2012
If you got a new iPad and immediately went to Facebook.com to play your favorite Facebook games, you may have notices they didn’t work on the iPad browser. Don’t panic! While Safari doesn’t support the Flash plugin needed to play those games in the browser, there are several other ways to get your Facebook gaming [...]
Apple’s iOS projected to claim 17% of connected device market by 2016
Posted by ryan on March 30th, 2012
IDC has recently published projections reaching out to 2016, when they forecast iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad will snag a 17.3% share of all connected devices — that includes computers, media tablets (yes, they’re still using that term), and smartphones. By IDC’s count, iOS had claimed 14% in 2011, during which time the [...]
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