It seems that with the release of Lion yesterday on the Mac App Store, Apple is taking more steps to encourage online media downloads, but discontinuing sale of boxed software in their physical Apple Stores. This certainly isn’t a bad thing, as having the media downloadable over the internet means that you can buy Apple software within the comfort of your own home. Plus, Apple’s stores won’t look so crowded with all those colorful boxes packed on the shelves on the wall.
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Apple has just taken its position at the top of the smartphone vendor world, taking Nokia off its throne when the company saw a sharp decrease in shipments in the second quarter of 2011. The company was behind in shipments by 5.5 million in the first quarter, but turned this around into a 3.6 million unit lead.
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A couple of days ago, we announced a free online dual-stick multiplayer shooter iOS, called Deadlock. Now we’re here to update you on the situation, and report that the app has indeed hit the App Store. The app, developed by Crescent Moon Games, was indeed free, and supports Game Center multiplayer with up to eight players. Check out the launch trailer below:
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With nearly half a million apps available for download on the iOS platform, it’s really become difficult to dig through the hundreds of thousands of crap apps to find the rare gems that are embedded there. Well, now a new app called AppGrooves hopes to make that job a little bit easier. Using the “hot or not” model, the app recommends other apps and lists the best software available on the marketplace. By giving input using AppGrooves, you can help out others who are searching for the real gold in the App Store.
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It may surprise you that according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics, the iPad may not be as popular as the people in America think it is. The data from the two tables above was compiled from the report and show a significant decrease in market share for the iPad in the second quarter of 2011, compared to market share in the second quarter of 2010, which was almost 95%. Meanwhile, other devices/operating systems have gained market share, but none so much as Android.
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Thrutu is a popular Android app (downloaded over a quarter of a million times at the date of this writing) that has now been ported for iOS. The application bring to users a feature it dubs as multitasking, but to us, it looks more like a revamped phone app with some new features. Thrutu allows you to transfer various information between two phones that are connected in a phone call, such as location, photos, etc. Check out the YouTube advertisement below:
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Music fans rejoice! Those of you who love to sing along with the songs you play, or just follow the lyrics, Sound Hound may be the App for you!
Originally a song-recognition app like Shazam, Sound Hound has since added a new live-lyrics feature in its 4.0 update. Released today, this new update adds the lyrics feature to both the ad-supported free version of Sound Hound, as well as the $7 Sound Hound infinity version. Both versions will have unlimited use of LiveLyrics, so don’t worry about limited use issues.
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Apparently, Apple has outgrown its current campus in Cupertino, as the company has just leased a nine building campus that could potentially fit 1300 employees. The campus is currently known as the Results Way Corporate Center and is located at 5 Results Way Cupertino, CA.
Apple’s demand for space has already started to be more than what Cupertino and the surrounding areas can handle. It may not be long before Apple has to find a new place to expand
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Did you think that the new Macbook Air and Mac minis were the only things that Apple added a Thunderbolt port to? Well, apparently Apple has also decided that its 27-inch display needed a bit of lightning also.
The new display offers much of the same things as its predecessor- A 2560-by-1440 pixel resolution, LED backlighting, in-plane switching (IPS) technology for high viewing angle, an ambient light sensor, and a built-in speaker and microphone.
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Man the cannons! Furl the mast! Charge your iPads, because Pirates is coming to the iPad App store Thursday!
Sid Meier is the creator behind the popular Civilization series, as well as the Roller-Coaster Tycoon games. However, years before he made these ground-breaking games, Sid Meier had already made another masterpiece- Pirates.
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Apple has made quite a few changes in its update of the new Mac mini. For one, Mac minis will now include a Thunderbolt Port, just like the new Macbook Air. Also, Apple has gotten rid of the optical drive, making a statement about their trust in digital downloads.
Generally, shape wise, the new Mac mini stays the same, with the exact same measurements (7.7 by 7.7 by 1.4 inches) as the old device. However
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Well, as rumored, right after today’s OS X Lion launch, Apple also came out with its updated version of the Macbook Air. The new Macbook Air features a variety of updated hardware, including the return of the popular backlit keyboard, a faster CPU, and the new Thunderbolt Port.
The new 11″ model now features either a 64, or 128GB flash drive, with a BTO option of 256GB.
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In collaboration with FreeAppADay, the popular zombie-smashing game, aptly named ZombieSmash, has been reduced in price, from $1.99 to Free! We’ve stuck with ZombieSmash since the beginning, writing about it hitting the App Store last year and following up with it. The app has an average 5 star rating, with over 2800 ratings. That’s quite impressive. Grab the app while it’s still free, using the download link below.
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If you’re impatient about the incredibly slow download speeds you might be getting for the 3+ gigabytes that you must download to get OS X Lion, then you might want to stop right now and listen to the words of Jason Snell, editorial director of Macbook, and his Twitter tweet made this morning.
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When it comes to fake shit, no one can compete with China. Oh yes. There’s simply no competition. The latest and greatest mockups of legit tech products all come from China, as do fake $1 “Nike” shirts. China is at the top of the world in this aspect. And boy, sometimes do they do a convincing job. Now, there’s something new. We’ve heard of fake Apple products, but never fake Apple Stores! But check out the photo gallery below. Every single picture shows a fake Apple store in China. But at first glance, they sure look real (except for the one that has the word “Store” spelled “Stoer,” that is.)
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With the release of Lion today, probably one of the biggest concerns that people have is the compatibility of their Leopard or Snow Leopard apps on the new operating system (I know that’s one of the biggest reasons I won’t be upgrading any time soon, but other members of our team will have tips and tutorials for Lion.) Helpfully, Adobe, the company behind some of the most popular applications in the world, has come up with a list of known issues for their various products while running on OS X 10.7 Lion. The page, available here, even goes to list product specific issues, which is great. We encourage more app developers to do this. Check out this page if you’re worried about your Adobe apps being compatible with Lion.
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