#stories There are people who make some serious bread from the App Store. Matt Rix, the creator of the wildly popular iPhone game Trainyard, is one of them. Here’s how he did it, starting with his sketchbook. More » [From The Trainyard Story, or How To Make a Smash Hit iPhone App [Stories]]
Interesting reading. And it’s a good game too 🙂
Apple is now the biggest US PC maker if you read between the lines of the latest Gartner and IDC PC sales data. This is why Apple’s announcement of new Mac OS X features next week will also be the point when AAPL defines the future of computing. read more [From With iPad, Apple is the biggest US PC maker]
The categories have always been broken.
Microsoft’s once dominant Internet Explorer now accounts for less than half the web browser market, according to recent figures from StatCounter. [From Internet Explorer market share dips below 50 per cent]
Good news for standards-based browsing.
Apple on Thursday overtook PetroChina Co. in terms of market value, making the Cupertino, Calif., company the second-largest company in the world.[From Apple now the world’s second largest company by market value]
That’s quite big 🙂
Wife’s mother’s internet was acting weird – it seemed a bit like a DNS problem – slow or partial page loads – but not that DNS problem as she is on the wrong version of Mac OS and Safari to have that problem. And it affected Firefox too. After changing DNS servers and other fiddling around I decided her ADSL modem/router must be faulty so I ordered a basic replacement.
And it fixed the problem. That’s the second ADSL Modem I’ve seen go funny after a couple of years and start giving odd faults.
So good that in 2006, they predicted that Windows Mobile was poised to take over the industry and attract the most developers.
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[From How Good Is Gartner at Predicting Smartphone Market Share?]
That’s a hoot 🙂
In a surprising announcement, and after receiving countless criticisms by developers and users, Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.” More » [From Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines [Apple]]
I guess they think the app ecosystem is strong enough now that Apple won’t get blamed for poor software development tools from third parties. And they can say I told you so if it happens.
Apple’s iOS mobile operating system rocketed past the open source Linux this summer to become the third most popular Web browsing platform on the Internet.[From Apple’s iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform]
Maybe next year will be the year of Linux 🙂
Detailed list from Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac.
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[From What’s New in iOS 4.1]
They are busy.
Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD will be coming to the Mac this fall, along with a companion iOS app for iPhone and iPad.
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Pricey. The CAD market on OS X will get a bit of a shakeup.
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