Jacob Hall, Editor-in-Chief of TapSauce | APPS | 08.29.2012 @ 1:00 pm
Do you want more proof that another iPhone is on the way? Apple itself is offering $345 in Apple credit if you recycle your iPhone 4S. Naturally, they fully expect you to put that credit toward the iPhone 5. Which you will, of course.
If the iPad Mini is a reality (and it’s looking more and more likely), it’s going to have to directly compete with the Nook and the Kindle Fire, both in quality and price. Some people much smarter than me did the numbers and concluded that an iPad Mini would cost roughly $190 to produce, which would suggest a price tag of around $299. Start saving your pennies…
It’s a dilemma: I love technology and I love note taking apps like Evernote, but I love sitting in a cool diner with free Wi-Fi while I take notes in my Moleskine notebook. Well, it looks like I’m getting the best of both worlds soon: Evernote and Moleskine are teaming up to create a physical notebook that will work in conjunction with the Evernote app, letting you physically scribble your notes before photographing them and uploading them into the app, where you can organize them as you see fit. And it has a search function! This could be incredible.
What two countries are the fastest growing in terms of smartphone ownership? For both iOS and Android, that number one position goes to China, with Chile in a distant second. They are followed by Brazil, Argentina, Iran, Vietnam, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and India.
Will future NASA sattelites be powered by Android? It sounds like a joke, but yep! Take that, Apple!
It’s one of the toughest decisions an app developer has to make: should an app cost something or be free to download? This thoughtful Techcrunch editorial explains why you may make more money with a free app in the long run. If you want to see the success of free-to-play in action, check out this article describing how Angry Birds fell out of the top fifty in the app store. We’re looking at a new era, where free games will rule the roost.
BREAKING! San Francisco coffee shops hates hipsters, hates hipsters who abuse Instagram more.