With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added an age rating system for applications. This not only allowed parents to set appropriate application access for their families, but also opened up the potential for developers to release applications with more adult-oriented content, until Apple received “numerous complaints” from users asking for the “Wobble iBoobs” app to be removed from the App Store.
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iBoobs banned from the App Store: no more sexy ladies (or men) on the iPhone.
Intel Moblin + Nokia Maemo = MeeGo
Intel’s Mobilin and Nokia’s Maemo, two Linux-based mobile operating systems, will be merged into one platform. Intel and Nokia said the MeeGo platform will extend beyond smartphones and will be flexible enough to scale to larger devices like full-fledged computers or in-car systems.
The first devices running MeeGo, including a new phone from Nokia, are expected to arrive later in 2010.
Nokia’s Symbian goes open-source: market share dropping, still dominates the market.
Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, launched Symbian OS 10 years ago. It established the market for smart phones and helped propel Nokia to its market dominance. More than 330 million cell phones running Symbian OS have been produced by a number of makers, including Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Sharp, Fujitsu, and Huawei. The Symbian OS ended 2009 with a 48% global market share for smart phones, says ABI Research. That’s down from 63% in 2007, the year that saw the iPhone launch.
“Symbian has a huge installed base, but a prevailing issue is that the user interface is not good,” said William Stofega, an analyst at research firm IDC. “If Nokia is going to stick with Symbian, as they have said, (the operating system) has to be revitalized.”
Windows 7 Phone Series: Microsoft is doing something “new” and “original”?
Just four months after Windows Mobile 6.5 hit the market, Microsoft has officially introduced Windows Phone 7 Series, the new multitouch-capable mobile operating system designed to defeat Apple’s iPhone.
We were all looking at the iPad and suddenly, Microsoft comes with this new, impressive, and I would dare to say “original” take on the mobile phones with a whole new OS. Yes, you read it well, I, the guy coming from Apple’s EvangeList, am saying Microsoft has done something “new” and “original”… How’s that? Read on to find out.
Is Apple looking into licensing the iPhone OS?
Could Apple bet on the App Store revenues and licensing revenues and give away the iPhone OS to third parties?
Will we ever see a Motorola or HTC built phone running the iPhone OS? Will we ever see inexpensive chinese phones running it?… Let’s see what that would mean to Apple.
Free iPhone apps monetization: ad supported iPhone Apps Revenue with AdMob or AdWhirl
Free apps get downloaded zillions of times: a lot more then commercial apps. There are plenty of different estiamtes on the ratio between free and paid apps. In our experience, free apps can get even more then 10 times the downloads then a similar paid app priced over the 0.99 USD tier. We’re speaking of pure stability in the range of 50-150 downloads per day after you loose the initial visibility on the app store for a very niche targeted free app.
Those are good numbers… Too bad a free iPhone application never gives you any ROI. To monetize the downloads quantity ad networks such as AdMob allow you to include ads inside your application.
Apple iPad: could be cheaper, really!
iSuppli Corp. reported that the multi-touch 9.7-inch display on the iPad could cost around $80, while its custom-designed A4 processor would cost about $17 per unit. The 16GB of memory is estimated to cost about $29.50.
Total parts cost would be $219.35… well below the starting price of $499 for the 16GB iPad. Manufacturing costs add just $10 to the total cost of the low-end model, bringing it to $229.35.
iPhone hidden features: Bluetooth headset support and Voice Control
This is the first of an article series about features our iPhones have that are not-so-obivous until you find them and try them once. All these features are explained somewhere on the web, and most of them are well detailed on Apple’s website, but, if you’re like me, you’re not going to explore that website searching for features of your iPhone – you’ll search for a feature the moment you need it.
Voice Control is a new feature Apple introduced with the iPhone 3GS. You can use your voice to make a call or to play music… even through a bluetooth headset.
iPhone Christian Prayers App in the Top 10 for Reference apps in Italy
Prayers is an easy-to-use, multi-language Christian Prayers database. It represents the ultimate reference to Catholic Prayers for iPhone and iPod Touch.
The native iPhone app is in the top 10 of the Reference Category in the Italian App Store, and in the top 100 apps for the Reference Category in Spain and France.
iPad & iPhone GUI User Interface Elements for Photoshop Prototyping
We discussed in the past what are the best tools out there to create mock-ups for an iPhone application storyboard — a document that describes the app flow and the desired user interaction that will get you much closer to prototyping.
A few days since the iPad has been shown in public for the first time and the iPhone SDK with the iPad simulator has been released, the first Photoshop (PSD) library of GUI (User Interface) elements has surfaced on the web…
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