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Show me the money Android

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Matt Gemmell:

Piracy isn’t a symptom of social disease. Well, it might be, but your bank manager won’t care about that inconsequential detail. Piracy is a symptom of failure to find an effective business model.

So many good points in this article.

The iOS in-app hack game is over

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By examining last apple’s statement about in-app purchases in iOS 6, I can say, that currently game is over. Currently we have no way to bypass updated APIs. It’s a good news for everyone, we have updated security in iOS, developers have their air-money.

Mid Atlantic Consulting is wrong

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A couple of days ago Mid Atlantic Consulting published a post detailing how iOS 6 has a limit on the number of apps that can be installed on an iOS device. I call bullshit on this for a couple of reasons.

I talked to some of my sources about the claims of the blog and the supposed limitations of iOS 6. Mid Atlantic says at 500 apps, the device will slow down and at 1,000 apps it won’t even boot. The person I was speaking with had over 1,100 apps on his phone running iOS 6 and said there was no virtual or other type of limit on the number of apps that could be installed. […]

Google dirtbags

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In attempting to fend off Apple and Microsoft’s suits against Motorola Mobility and advancing its own patent litigation against both companies, Google, which is facing a lot of regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad over what some allege is abuse of SEPs, has been arguing that proprietary non-standardized technologies that become ubiquitous due to their popularity with consumers should be considered de facto standards.

So, Let me get this straight. Apple spent billions of dollars researching the best interface for mobile devices and patented their findings. Those methods of interacting with a mobile device became so popular, Google illegally integrated them in its inferior Android operating system.

Now that they’ve been caught, they are arguing that the features are standards and are not Apple’s at all.

You know what else is ubiquitous? Search. Why not hand the code for that over to Apple and let them make a search engine to compete with Google.

Dirtbags.

Sprint won’t charge for FaceTime use

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Jordan Golson, MacRumors:

While AT&T hasn’t yet decided whether or not it will charge users for using Apple’s FaceTime video-chat service over its cellular network, Sprint says it’s customers can use the service free of charge.

I wonder if that will put any pressure on AT&T. Telcos are famous for flip-flopping on these types of things though, so I’m not convinced this will last.

Twist, the app that tells people you’ll be late

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Wired:

Whether you have a habit of arriving awkwardly early or annoyingly late for meetings, a new app called Twist is here to help. The location-based app, which launched on Wednesday, is akin to Find My Friends, but adds the useful element of notifying family, friends or colleagues when you’re going to arrive at a specific location.The app offers a clean and simple way to accomplish multiple tasks: Track a person’s location, receive directions, share photos along your route, send messages, and get venue and weather details. It’s not the snazziest-looking app, but the uncluttered experience is actually refreshing in a world where apps are trying to stuff as much as they can into the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen.

I absolutely hate being late and tend to show up 30+ minutes for appointments. Conversely, if someone I’m meeting is 5 minutes late, I worry they’ve been in an accident and are lying dead on the side of the road. This free app might alleviate some of that stress.

Apple granted the mother of all mobile patents

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It may sound snoozy, but the patent — which covers graphical user interfaces ranging from email to Camera Roll to menu lists to the multi-touch interface in general — looks like a dangerous weapon for Apple as it battles Android handset makers.

I don’t usually post about patents, but this is a doozy.

[Via Phandroid]

Harsh

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Matt Alexander:

Boasting a colorfully angular interface, the promise of smooth transitional animations, and a design pandering toward extreme minimalism, Metro is perhaps the most ill-fitting of titles for such a barren landscape.

And that’s just the first paragraph.

Spoiler: It doesn’t get any better.

‘Batman: Earth One’ available on Apple’s iBookstore

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DC Entertainment on Wednesday released ‘Batman: Earth One’ on the iBookstore. The company said this is the first of many graphic novels it will release on the iBookStore.

The book was done by author Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank.

Chrome gets 1.5% market share on iOS

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According to the latest data from online advertising network Chitika, Chrome for iOS currently has a market share of about 1.5% on its network. Safari, of course, continues to have a virtual monopoly on iOS browsing, but according to Chitika, Chrome continues to see moderate growth on Apple’s mobile platform.

Not bad considering it’s only been out for a month.

Import ban on Motorola Android devices

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An import ban on Motorola Android devices ordered by the US International Trade Commission is scheduled to take effect tomorrow. Motorola Mobility says it has a plan to make sure its Android phones and tablets remain available to US consumers—but the company isn’t revealing just what that plan is.

I wonder what they have up their sleeve?

65% expect their next phone to be an iPhone

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Fortune:

In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster reported the results of his annual cell phone survey. The key takeaways: – Asked what phone they were going to buy next, 65% said an Apple (AAPL) iPhone, 19% said a Google Android, 6.5% said “not a smartphone,” 6% said “I don’t know,” and 2.5% said a Research in Motion Blackberry. – 94.2% of iPhone users plan to buy an iPhone for their next phone.

Checkmark for iPhone

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Checkmark is the fastest way to remind yourself of all the things you have to do in your busy life. Add location or date & time-based reminders in seconds.

I’ve been testing this app and really like it a lot.

30+ iPhone, iPad apps for the London Olympics

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The Olympic Games begin in London, England on July 27 and run through August 12, 2012. I’ve put together a list of apps to help you with travel, organization, photos and sightseeing, so you can get the most out of the games this year. […]

iPhone disruption

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The iPhone is now also the primary device for listening to music as 85 percent claim and as for alarm clocks, 57 percent say they no longer use one, other than alarm clock apps on their iPhone.

I never really thought about it like that. I use my iPhone for an alarm clock, GPS, phone, and sometimes even a mini computer. Soon maybe even a wallet.

RIM bleeding developers

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Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and the company’s ebbing smartphone market share in the U.S., some are throwing up their hands and turning away from the platform.

That could be the final nail.

BlackBerry tweet backfires on RIM

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Salvador Rodriguez for the LA Times:

The company tweeted from its @BlackBerry account “Fill in the blank: BlackBerry helps me ________.” However, many of the people who responded didn’t find BlackBerry too helpful.“Realize how thankful I am for my #iPhone,” said one user, in one of the tamest yet worst responses RIM could have received. Not to be outdone, though, another user said the same about Android.

It’s not surprising that nobody at RIM saw this coming.

Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS

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We’re happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We’ve also introduced a new iOS Dev Center so you can quickly access the tools and resources you need to build great social apps for iOS.

There are lots of changes and goodies in here, including iOS 6 integration.

App approval process

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Scoople surveys its users with questions in its iPhone app. The latest questions, about the app approval process, had some interesting results including almost half think malware will be a significant issue. I don’t think it will myself.

This is why iCloud isn’t in more apps

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Kyle Baxter:

…naturally I’ve also been thinking through how syncing should work. This seems like an easy question to answer: iCloud. If only. I wish it were that easy, but it’s not.

As a user, I want iCloud implemented in everything I use. However, for developers, there are reasons why iCloud doesn’t make sense yet.