In a recent interview at WWDC, Apple’s VP of Marketing Phil Schiller commented on criticism that it’s hard to get noticed in the App Store. The opportunity is the best it has ever been for software developers… Every other day you hear about another app going off the charts. You can still get discovered and [...]
Archive for June 13th, 2012
Phil Schiller comments on App Store discoverability
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod 
Tags: App Store, Marketing Phil Schiller, Phil Schiller, WWDC 
Comments OffBlackBerry PlayBook hacked to run iOS apps, including ours
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
A clever dev has managed to shoehorn full-blown iOS apps onto the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Such App Store titles as Tiny Tower, Super Monkey Ball, TomTom Navigation, Sushi Cat, iFart, Frogger, Galcon, SketchBook, and a few others. Oh, and the iMore app, of course. This has been made possible through a kind of iOS player [...]
Speech app pulled from App Store that gave 4 year old a voice for the first time
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
The speech recognition app Speak For Yourself for iPad has given 4 year old Maya Nieder a voice of her own for the first time. Due to a lawsuit concerning several patents, the app has been pulled from the App Store. Her parents worry if the app is removed remotely they may lose their new [...]
Retina MacBook Pro torn down, shows little upgradeability
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
The Retina display-packing MacBook Pro that was announced at WWDC has been meticulously disassembled, as you might expect, everything is glued or soldered in place, including RAM, battery packs, and the display. While that might not make for a laptop that’s particularly well-suited for repair or upgrades, it does make for a svelte package. The [...]
Ping might get killed off in the next version of iTunes
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
Ping, Apple’s ill-fated music social network, may be seeing its end of life in September with the next major release of iTunes. Ping launched in September of 2010 and went ages without plugging into Facebook despite lengthy negotiations. At its Core, Ping enables users to share their tastes with other iTunes users, including what concerts [...]
The big list of iOS 6 features
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
At WWDC, Apple proclaimed iOS 6 would introduce over 200 new features when released this fall, and that what we saw yesterday was just a small sampling. We’ve got plenty of posts going over the big features, but there are also a handful of slides that were positively riddled with features that they just didn’t [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Game Center, Guided Access, Notification Center, Photo Streams Comments OffGames, platform exclusives, clever in-app purchases, delightful animations, and other lessons from the 2012 Apple Design Awards
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
The 2012 Apple Design Awards were interesting because of the fantastic apps that got the exposure and recognition of an ADA. They were also interesting in what they revealed about Apple priorities and predilections when it came to the award selections. In the Mac and iPhone categories, 2 our of 3 of the winners were [...]
Apple Design Awards and what they tell us about Apple
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
The 2012 Apple Design Awards were interesting because of the fantastic apps that got the exposure and recognition of an ADA. They were also interesting in what they revealed about Apple priorities and predilections when it came to the award selections. In the Mac and iPhone categories, 2 our of 3 of the winners were [...]
What iOS 6 means for gaming
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
Gaming got a bit of a spotlight at yesterday’s WWDC keynote, and though Apple spent just as much of the show talking about Mac as it did iOS, there are a lot of big implications for mobile. Game Center The biggest announcement for gamers at WWDC 2012 was cross-platform Game Center. Letting Mac owners play [...]
Jay Freeman (Saurik) at Indie Dev Lab 2012 – Cydia founder speaks!
Posted by ryan on June 13th, 2012
We’re live at Jay Freeman (Saurik)’s talk at Indie Dev Lab 2012. We’ll update with highlight as they happen! Saurik is a huge fan of analytics. Everyone along a transaction chain takes money. Saurik recommends Paypal over services like Strife because they scale down for micro-transactions. Amazon scales even more, but they don’t support many [...]
