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The Case for and Against a Buttonless iPhone and iPad
The iOS 4.3 beta, despite being covered by Apple’s NDA, is leaking signs of new hardware and software features like a sieve. The latest find is support for multi-touch gestures on the iPhone. Apple is beta-testing these gestures publicly for the iPad in 4.3, but new evidence suggests privat...
How Apple Should Protect the App Gap
Apple’s iOS App Store offers one thing its competitors don’t: significantly more high quality paid and free apps. The company can hold on to that advantage by paying attention to what changes would make the most difference to developers and app users alike. Here’s how it can mak...
More Proof Apple TV Is Actually a Netflix Box
Apple has indeed crossed the 1 million Apple TVs sold mark, as it predicted it would shortly before Christmas. I argued that its relative success was mostly due to Neftlix being available on the streaming media device, and a new report from an industry analyst (via AppleInsider) supports that vie...
How Much Did You Spend on Apps This Year?
With apps being sold atan average price of less than $2.50 each, what could possibly be driving speculation that app sales could be a$35 billion industry by 2014? If you have an iOS device, then the answer is you. On average, early in 2010, iOS users were spending a little over $4 each month on a...
How to Stop the iPad Magazine Download Slide
Yesterday, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reported that according to recent numbers, interest in iPad magazines is quickly dwindling, as noted by Om in his recent post about year-end predictions. Wired‘s iPad edition was widely praised, and sold 100,000 in its first month. By November, that...
Why Was the WikiLeaks App Pulled From App Store? [Updated]
UPDATE: Apple’s official stance on the removal of the WikiLeaks app is that “it violated [their] developer guidelines,” according to the New York Times. Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller added that “[a]pps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group...
9 Things on the iPad 2 Wish List
Let’s be clear; the iPad rocks. If it never changes, I’d still be happy with it. But since we’re at that point in the year when we’re offering offering predictions and hopes regarding what’s to come,here’s a list of must-have features in iPad 2.Some things we c...
Which Tablet Is Best? iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab
For the first time since its introduction, the iPad finally has a serious competitor in the market for that magical third device that’s more than a phone, but not quite a laptop or netbook. This self-declared Apple fanboy got some serious hands-on time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and while...
Infographic: The Apple App Store by the Numbers
iPhone and iPad app discovery website App of the Day spent some time analyzing App Store data and came up with some interesting findings, which they compiled in the infographic you see below. The average price of apps per category is particularly illuminating, revealing a considerable price discr...
Apple's iPhone Gross Profit Double That of Motorola, RIM
Apple’s gross profits on the iPhone add up to more than double those of Motorola and RIM combined, according toa new report by stock market analysis firm Trefis. The report’sestimates put Apple’s total iPhone-based gross profit at $14.8 billion for 2010. RIM’s mobile phone...
