Apple has done their best to keep iPhone development on the Mac, offering developer tools only for OS X, and it will probably stay that way. But Webkit is already available on Windows with Safari, so why not a webapp developer tool? That’s exactly what developer Shaun Sullivan created.
Apple has done their best to keep iPhone development on the Mac, offering developer tools only for OS X, and it will probably stay that way. But Webkit is already available on Windows with Safari, so why not a webapp developer tool? That’s exactly what developer Shaun Sullivan created.
According to information gathered by mobile research group Pinch Media, the average free app downloaded from the App Store has a less than 5% chance of being used for greater than 30 days after it was first downloaded. The group collected information from more than 30 million app downloads that they tracked as part of their analytics services they provide to developers, and the trends they found were pretty surprising.
According to information gathered by mobile research group Pinch Media, the average free app downloaded from the App Store has a less than 5% chance of being used for greater than 30 days after it was first downloaded. The group collected information from more than 30 million app downloads that they tracked as part of their analytics services they provide to developers, and the trends they found were pretty surprising.
GPS Mission, a GPS-based game for the iPhone that involves real-world interaction based on GPS information collected by the device from German developer Orbster, was given the top award at the 2009 Mobile Peer Awards. GPS Mission lets users create their own real-world location-based games and activities that can be viewed on the iPhone, as well as other GPS-enabled Windows Mobile or Java handsets.
GPS Mission, a GPS-based game for the iPhone that involves real-world interaction based on GPS information collected by the device from German developer Orbster, was given the top award at the 2009 Mobile Peer Awards. GPS Mission lets users create their own real-world location-based games and activities that can be viewed on the iPhone, as well as other GPS-enabled Windows Mobile or Java handsets.
An interesting trend has popped up with iPhone apps released by bands. While Apple offers no streaming music service in iTunes, several bands have started releasing paid apps in the App Store that stream the band’s music to the device. The latest of these bands is Presidents of the United States of America, who is offering streaming access to their entire discography for just $3 with the app The Presidents’ Music - PUSA [$2.99]. Could this be the next big trend?
[via Ars Technica]
An interesting trend has popped up with iPhone apps released by bands. While Apple offers no streaming music service in iTunes, several bands have started releasing paid apps in the App Store that stream the band’s music to the device. The latest of these bands is Presidents of the United States of America, who is offering streaming access to their entire discography for just $3 with the app The Presidents’ Music - PUSA [$2.99]. Could this be the next big trend?
[via Ars Technica]
When the iPhone was first unveiled, few had ever seen anything like it before, but it’s origins didn’t start with Apple. The technology behind the multitouch screen we all know and love started when Wayne Westerman and John Elias started a company called Fingerworks in 1998. In an article by the University of Delaware, Westerman gives some insight into the birth of their multi-touch interfaces.
When the iPhone was first unveiled, few had ever seen anything like it before, but it’s origins didn’t start with Apple. The technology behind the multitouch screen we all know and love started when Wayne Westerman and John Elias started a company called Fingerworks in 1998. In an article by the University of Delaware, Westerman gives some insight into the birth of their multi-touch interfaces.