Apps

“He was a genius,” Rosario Hidalgo said outside an Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while her daughter, 21-month-old Carlotta, used an iPhone to play an app that teaches children to match animal sounds to animal pictures. … Continue reading →

“He was a genius,” Rosario Hidalgo said outside an Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while her daughter, 21-month-old Carlotta, used an iPhone to play an app that teaches children to match animal sounds to animal pictures.

And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.” Jobs predicted in the letter that HTML5 would win out as the preferred …

Siri for iPhone 4S has been eight years in the making. Here’s a look at how she grew into her role as the intelligent personal assistant of Apple’s next-generation iPhone. 2003: DARPA awards SRI with a five-year contract to create … Continue reading →

“He was a genius,” Rosario Hidalgo said outside an Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while her daughter, 21-month-old Carlotta, used an iPhone to play an app that teaches children to match animal sounds to animal pictures. … Continue reading →

The conversation focused on Facebook’s new Timelines as well as the rumor that Facebook would show off its iPad app at Apple’s event earlier this week. There was also widespread discussion about whether or not Facebook tracks users’ cookies …

As announced in Apple’s big press event on October 4, the iPhone 4S will include Siri, a voice controlled personal assistant that can carry out commands on other apps. Siri will be one of the leading features of iOS 5 … Continue reading →

Paired with the iPod, iTunes launched in 2003 and it set the tone for today’s Apple App Store, which today serves more than 425,000 applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Since software is more important than the pretty … Continue reading →

One of his first acts as chief executive was to promote another of Apple’s stars, Eddy Cue, who interacts with many outsiders as the master of iTunes, the media and software applications store. Mr Cue is the key to securing … Continue reading →

A very high percentage of iPads are sold directly from Apple, either online or in their stores. They are capturing the manufacturer margin plus the retailer margin. Second is the app economy. Each iPad sold also brings an increasing amount … Continue reading →