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Apple Makes $57.60 Off Each Visitor To The Apple Store
May 20th
Apple now makes a record $57.60 off each visitor who comes to the Apple Store. Apple is now making more money per visitor than ever before. According to some analysis by Horace Dediu at Asymco, the number of visitors to the Apple Store grew by 7% last quarter which resulted in a price point of $57.60 per visitor. Read More
Android Studio – An IDE Just For Android Developers
May 15th
Android developers are getting a huge boost today. Google at Google I/O today announced the release of Android Studio – an IDE built just for Android developers so they can build and deploy Apps faster. This is nothing completely unique to the platform, but instead a much needed tool as most of the other major players in the market like Apple and Microsoft provide their own set of tools to ease the life of developers. Android Studio is a replacement for Eclipse. Read More
Android Developers Can Now Beta Test Before Pushing Out Updates
May 15th
If you are a successful Android developer, chances are that you wouldn’t want to push out an update that is unstable and might cause distress amongst your loyal user fan base. At Google I/O today, Google announced that starting today, Android developers will be able to beta test their Apps before pushing it out to the masses. Within the developer console, there will now be three tabs – “alpha testing”, “beta testing” and “product”. Read More
Google Launches Unified Messaging App for iOS, Android and Chrome
May 15th
At Google I/O today, Google launched a new unified messaging App for iOS, Android and Chrome dubbed “Hangouts”. Hangouts is now a standalone application instead of simply being a feature of Google+ and as Google describes it – “conversations which last” and “with people that you love.” Just like any other messaging App, you will find all your friends with whom you can chat, share photos, emoji and voice calls for free. Read More
UniFrame For iOS – A Photo Frames App
May 14th
UniFrame is the latest App in a series of photo presentation Apps which have hit the AppStore recently. But UniFrame has an edge over the other Apps with its unique feature which allows you to browse images from various sources – internet and your own – to create a beautiful, collage-style photo frame. Unfortunately, the execution of the App slightly lets down this brilliant idea. Read More
Steve Jobs High School GPA – 2.65
May 14th
In life, nothing is certain. There are some kids with high grades in school that we expect a lot from but grow up to live mediocre lives, and there are those who we think won’t go far but end up becoming game changers. The late Steve Jobs is an example, we all know he was a college dropout when he started working with Atari. A miniaturization competition project paired him with Steve Wozniak and from there they eventually started a company that was to become the giant industry shaker known as Apple Inc. Read More
Fantastical Receives New Update
May 13th
Fantastical, the calendar App that everyone is talking about has just received an update that takes it to version 1.1.2. Fantastical is available on the App Store for $4.99 and is a calendar App with many unique features and a gorgeous user interface that sets it apart. The durations tab now includes the much needed 45 minutes option. Read More
Smashing Egg Tido! For iOS – Deliciously Addictive
May 10th
With so many strategy and survival games already available on the AppStore and more joining the ranks almost every day, what makes a game stand out? Wolfgang Kramer said, “A good game makes us long to play it again.” Or, in other words, a good game is one which is addictive. That is the main criterion for success. Smashing Egg Tido! ticks that particular box emphatically. Once you start playing it, you will not be able to put it down. Read More
Apple Might Call It iPhone 6 Instead Of The Expected 5S
May 9th
A leaked photo, allegedly coming from a Vodaphone UK inventory shows an entry for a 4G iPhone 6. This leads to a speculation by tech experts that Apple will be bypassing their usual naming routine and skip directly to naming the new device iPhone 6 instead of iPhone 5S as expected. It has been speculated that at mid 2013 Apple will be unveiling an iPhone 5S and a lower cost iPhone version like the iPad which was given a lower cost version the iPad mini. Read More
Apple Rumored to Release New Colored iPhone 5S in July
May 6th
The buzz of what will be coming for this year from Apple has been making the rounds on the internet for some time. The latest of it involves the release of the new colored versions of the iPhone 5S in July. Ming-Chi Kou, an analyst at KGI Securities made some of the predictions and he has been right in his predictions of Apple’s moves in the past. It is predicted Apple will roll out the iPhone 5S, cheaper iPhone versions and fingerprint identification technology to go with them in July. There are also hints that the new iPhone will come in different colors with a casing made of anodized aluminum but it could be that the cheaper version will be the one getting the colorful casings in plastic; it is cheap to produce colorful plastic casings. Read More
