iMAME App on App Store for now
January 4, 2012
We have all seen Apple approve some very strange apps, thereupon turn around, and remove them from the app store citing violations of one design or another. Things like that shake the baby app for instance. Apple has a history of not allowing unofficial arcade game emulators on the App Store.
One …
Apple files face and presence detection patent app
January 4, 2012
In the future, there may be a new way of logging into your Apple gear like the iPhone or iPad. Apple has filed a patent app that outlines a way that the gadgets could log different users in using presence detection and face detection reports PatentlyApple. The cool part is that you could have multip…
App Store served 5.65 million free downloads daily in November
January 4, 2012
We all know that most of the apps that the App Store moves are free downloads. Some developers compose money off the in-app sales and DLC for these free games. During the month of November, there were a huge number of free apps downloaded.
According to metrics firm Fiksu, there were 5.65 million f…
1.2 billion app downloads in a week, Nintendo courts iOS devs, Steve Jobs action figure
January 4, 2012
Analytics firm Flurry reports that within iOS devices and Android the week of Christmas there were 1.2 billion apps downloaded. That by a billion downloads a week mark is expected to come several times in 2012.
Nintendo is reportedly getting a Wii U book store ready and is looking to coax some iOS…
Samsung uses Apple actor, PC mods work on iOS GTA III, Apple design chief gets knighted
January 4, 2012
Samsung makes no bones about wanting to take market share from Apple and the iPad with its tablets. Samsung is trying everything to get its tablets to sell better, including hiring the same actor Apple uses in commercials.
If you have the GTA III game on your iPhone and are jailbroken you might li…
iPhone 4S Lands in China January 13
January 4, 2012
If you are a Chinese iPhone fan, the smartphone is coming to China on January 13. Along with the launch in China, the device will additionally be coming to 21 other countries as well. The 4S has likely already been in China thanks to the gray market where the smartphone has been cheaper than the off…
iPlayer comes to iPhone, Apple in eBook price review, H1Siri hack complaints
December 15, 2011
BBC has announced that it has rolled the global iPlayer app out to more countries. The iPlayer is for the iPhone and iPod touch and lets public catch up with episodes they miss for 30 days after the episode airs.
Apple and eBook publishers are now in the middle of an investigation in the EU. The s…