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Now you can use your iPad to connect to your desktop. Check this cool app out on the App Store
Looks like Ryan Tate over at Gawker got Steve J’s attention, because Jobs’s usually five word response became a multi paragraph, multi message exchange between the Gawker writer and Apple CEO. Keep in mind we have no way of verifying the authenticity of this exchange other than trusting Tate, but if it is in fact genuine it opens up a whole new view into Steve’s thinking.
“Freedom from porn” was perhaps the most controversial stand Jobs took on behalf of the Apple App Store, as many who’ve allied with the company in past have done so in the belief it stood for all that is free, right, and institutionally challenging in the world. It will be interesting to see how this one carries over to the weekday news cycle.
Follow the link above for more on the exchange as reported by the Tate.
If you’re a business app developer, you’d best be developing for the iPad right now.
iPad App Store Unveiled, Our Exclusive Walkthrough.
Now you, too, don’t have to surf hard on your phone just to find the closest Chick-fil-A!
We know there isn’t anything amazing about adding yet another locator app to your iPhone, but some of these are far more logical than others.
When we’re out doing cool stuff that eventually gets reviewed on The Meandering Ones we almost always seem to get a serious crush for a refreshing beverage, and none fills the need better than a tasty, crisp Chick-fil-A unsweetened iced tea.
I bet you’re thirsty just thinking about it. Here’s a link the free iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch app.
Before anyone else we talked about our expectation that Mac OS X and iPhone OS should (and quite possibly would) integrate what currently exists as Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X into a design allowing iPhone screen sized apps essentially supplant them.
Despite this article’s discussion regartding Gruber’s claim that there’s to be no ‘widget mode’ for minor applications on the iPad, we’ve got zero reason in the world to believe it won’t happen.
Frankly, it just makes sense. What better way to further monetize and extend the Apple App Store paradigm than to make these bite sized apps available on all Apple operating systems and devices?
If you ask me, Apple would look a little dumb not doing it. And just think of how easy it would make the life of every Apple user who’s become addicted to solid, life changing apps like Grocery IQ and iFitness which allow you to sync and go?
Despite the ‘browser first’ proponents, these apps – with their ability to make unwieldy tasks easy – are what the consumer Internet is all about. And please don’t say the inconsistent user interface design and unstructured sizing of a browser window is a better solution for the average user.
Here’s a great way to avoid speed traps while driving with your iPhone in tow.
Ted Landau:
Full article at Rejected by Apple | Ted Landau’s User Friendly Blog.
Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket.
Here are all the changes Amazon made to their Kindle program. From being less stingy with their cut of e-book sales to trying to give the suckers away for free, there’s a lot that’s new but nothing that’s remotely innovative.
We now know that Amazon’s response to the impending annihilation of their entire electronic publishing empire is to wait until literally the 11th hour of the Apple tablet launch to give their partners the same deal Apple’s App Store developers have. If Amazon were selling my book I’d feel like they were intentionally screwing me all along if I’d gone from getting around 1/3 of my revenues back, only to find Amazon could have afforded to give me 70% all along.
The fear’s already begun. Let’s see how much backlash the world’s most powerful bookstore (up to this point) receives once the Apple online publishing machine takes hold.
