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If Apple is losing any sleep over
those recent smartphone numbers, it's not showing it. Their official response to the recent news that Android is selling more phones than iPhone OS could adequately be defined as: "meh." Spokeswoman Natalie Harrison
says that the survey was "a very limited report," and that Apple is "far outselling Android on a worldwide basis." She goes on to say that "with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon." Like I said: "meh."
It's notable that she does use iPod touch numbers in her calculations, and we're not quite sure if those belong in a survey of
smartphones. But she does have a point -- Android may have won this battle, but Apple is still winning the war, and the fight is far from over. There is an interesting parallel here to OS X and Windows -- Apple's OS lives squarely on just a few official devices, while the Android system operates on third-party hardware over any number of platforms. It's certainly possible that Android could win on numbers, even while Apple "wins" on usability and quality. But market share has never been Apple's game, and you can't look at any of the money they've made lately and believe they've
done anything but succeed.
[via
Engadget]
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When Apple engineer Gray Powell’s prototype iPhone HD/iPhone 4G fell from his bag in a bar, it was “found” by Brian Hogan, and — as it turns out now — it was Hogan’s roommate, Katherine Martinson, who turned Hogan in. Here’s the gist, including Hogan’s obvious effort to enter into karma receivership right from the start:
“Sucks for him,” Hogan allegedly told Martinson. “He lost his phone. Shouldn’t have lost his phone.”
Martinson turned Hogan in because Hogan had plugged the phone into her laptop in an attempt to get it working again after Apple remotely disabled it. She was convinced that Apple would be able to trace her Internet IP address as a result. “Therefore she contacted Apple in order to aboslive herself of criminal responsibility,” according to the affidavit.
Martinson informed Apple Hogan had found the phone, knew the Facebook profile of the person who lost it, but instead of trying to return it was offering it up to gadget blogs. (It ultimately found its way to Gizmodo).
What followed is an almost farcical attempt at destroy evidence with police hot on the trail.
Now we just need to find out how the older prototype got to Vietnam…
[Wired]
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Following on earlier news that a California court would be releasing documents related to a search warrant for the lost next-generation iPhone that ended up in the hands of Gizmodo, CNET has now posted the full documents released by the court...
Fieldrunners for the iPad, from Subatomic Studios, LLC, is a tower defense-style game, where the object is to obliterate the fieldrunners before they get to your base. To do this you place weapons on the field so that they will take out all fieldrunners before they get to the other side.
You start the game with 20 lives, which translates into 20 enemies that may pass through your defenses before the game ends. The placement of your defences is in real time, though after each level you do get a small amount of time before the fieldrunners start their attack. Strategy is paramount, as the towers you set up early in the game are still in play for later levels. You do not want to have to sell and move around towers as this will use up valuable resources (arms sales are not as profitable as they once were).
A large green ring indicates where your tower can be placed, a red ring indicates a illegal placement. The size of the ring shows you the range of the weapon which is very important for game strategy. Just clicking on the weapon will bring up the upgrading/sell options. Fieldrunners allows you to choose what difficulty you want to play in. So for veteran tower defense players starting on easy may be quite a bore, however as the game progresses each Fieldrunner you obliterate gains you more funds to purchase weapons.
The controls are very simple — just point click and drag. You place your finger on the tower you want and then drag it to the location you want. All of the game options are also accessible through the game with a touch of your finger. You can also choose to put Fieldrunners into fast forward to accelerate the onslaught.
The game graphics are very clean and cartoonish yet not childish. Even the background of the game is beautifully rendered along with little bugs and flowers (not girly, I promise!).
Fieldrunners is really fun game for anyone who enjoys the tower defense genre. The increasing levels of difficulty keep Fieldrunners enjoyable and challenging. Well worth the price tag.
[$7.99 - iTunes Link]
Pros
- Beautiful graphics
- A lot of fun
- Intuitive controls
Cons
- Repetitive gameplay
- Could have more weapon variety
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Bloomberg reports that the search warrant authorized by a judge in San Mateo County that allowed police to seize evidence related to the lost next-generation iPhone that appeared in the hands of Gizmodo has been ordered unsealed. The warrant...
Bloomberg reports that the search warrant authorized by a judge in San Mateo County that allowed police to seize evidence related to the lost next-generation iPhone that appeared in the hands of Gizmodo has been ordered unsealed. The warrant...
Bloomberg is reporting that Wal-Mart will begin offering Apple’s iPad to consumers at some point “later this year”.
“We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year,” Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores, said in a telephone interview. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company isn’t prepared to provide specifics on the timing and pricing of the iPad, he said.”
This really should come to no surprise considering Wal-Mart carries the iPhone. Currently iPad sales are limited to Apple’s online and retail stores and the certain Best Buy locations that offer the Apple shop sections. Apple did not have a official comment regarding any deal with Wal-Mart.
Our best guess is that you will see Wal-Mart selling iPads just in time for the holiday shopping season. Do you think this wishful thinking on the retailers part or is this going to happen? Sound off in the comments below!
[9to5Mac via Bloomberg]
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I'm by no means a power GTD user, but like a lot of you I am juggling different projects and need to find a way to organize them. When I was younger, I carried around a paper planner, but now I have an iPhone and an iPad in addition to my desktop Mac.
The iPad on its own makes an awesome replacement for a paper planner. Paired with the iPhone, it's incredible. Any productivity developer for the iPad needs to have the following in mind.
- It has to stand on its own as an effective program.
- It has to work seamlessly with the iPhone, preferably with cloud syncing
- It has to be affordable.
The available productivity apps that span both iPhone and iPad are usually lacking in one of the above areas. For Things, it's price and the lack of cloud sync. You're shelling out $30 for the iPhone and iPad products alone. Tack on the desktop and that's another $49.95. Same goes for OmniFocus, whose iPad app is not available yet.
Within the past couple of weeks, some affordable alternatives have emerged on the App Store. These programs are pretty great on their own, but they also come with issues -- especially when it comes to syncing with other devices. First up, we take a look at BitAlpha's Taska for the iPad and iPhone.
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First Look: Taska for iPad and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 May 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Just in time for those summer vacations, 
