touchNOC Chosen as One of 10 Apps for the
Appcircus in Silicon Valley

post from prMac on 05 April 2011 05:15:00 PM. © prMac

Leaping Bytes is pleased to announce that touchNOC, a server management solution built for systems administrators on-the-go, has been selected for the inaugural AppCircus, a showcase of cutting-edge apps and developer platforms, in Silicon Valley. touchNOC provides server management for system administrators with an iPhone by combining the capabilities of the latest generation of systems management technology, security, and iPhone technology.

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So Much for Toyotas Jailbroken iPhone Ad Campaign

post from Daring Fireball on 05 April 2011 03:04:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Kyle Matthews, owner of ModMyi:

I received a call from our contact at Velti this evening as wellas an email asking me to please take the theme out of Cydia. Onthe phone, he explained Apple had contacted Toyota and requestedthey remove the theme and stop the advertising campaign. They(Velti) in turn contacted me relaying the message. The reasonVelti listed for the removal request of the theme emailed throughour dev portal was “Toyota?s making us take it down?” Toyotahad agreed to do so to “maintain their good relationship withApple,” our Velti contact told me on the phone.

Who at Toyota thought this was a good idea?

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Epics Tim Sweeney on Mobile Gaming

post from Daring Fireball on 05 April 2011 03:04:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Buchanan interviews Epic’s Tim Sweeney:

Speaking of Android, you’re probably wondering why there’s noshowstopper like Infinity Blade for the platform. Well, wonder nomore. Says Sweeney, “When a consumer gets the phone and they wannaplay a game that uses our technology, it’s got to be a consistentexperience, and we can’t guarantee that [on Android]. That’s whatheld us off of Android.” The problem with Android is consistency.“If you took the underlying NGP hardware and shipped Android onit, you’d find far far less performance on Android. Let’s say youtook an NGP phone and made four versions of it. Each one wouldgive you a different amount of memory and performance based on thecrap [the carriers] put on their phone.” Bottom line, for Epic todo the kinds of things they do on iOS, “Google needs to be alittle more evil. They need to be far more controlling.” Even so,the main reason Epic has focused on iOS? “It’s really the bestplace to make money.”

Sweeney just needs to talk to Fred Wilson.

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David Friedman Proposes a New Save Icon

post from Daring Fireball on 05 April 2011 02:05:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

I love baseball and I’ve been complaining about the use of floppy disk icons for “Save” buttons for years, but even I don’t think a home plate icon works — too U.S.-centric. It’s a tricky design problem.

As Marco Arment notes, iOS has solved this not by coming up with a new icon, but by eliminating the need for users to explicitly save anything or to deal with the file system directly. So maybe it’s somehow right that the universal icon for “Save” is a relic from a bygone era of computing.

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iPhone 5 Will Not Launch in June

post from Daring Fireball on 05 April 2011 02:05:24 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jim Dalrymple:

My sources said today that rumors of an iPhone 5 release at theend of June were completely false.

What kind of sense would it make for Apple to release or announce a new iPhone in June and not do it at WWDC? Do people even think before they publish stuff like this?

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Free Publicity for iOS Vendors at iPhone Life
Magazine

post from prMac on 05 April 2011 01:38:00 PM. © prMac

iPhone Life magazine, is proud to announce the launch of their Vendor Network platform for iOS retailers and developers. The Vendor Network is free to join and allows vendors to create profiles on the iPhoneLife.com website. The Vendor Network has two free levels of membership: basic and plus. Vendors will be able to post press releases, videos and product pages to their profile, as well as apply to be featured in contests.

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Xoom Uptake

post from Daring Fireball on 05 April 2011 01:06:35 PM. © Daring Fireball

Two observations from Google’s Android OS usage numbers:

Over 65 percent of Android devices are on 2.2 or better. That’s not bad at all.
Only 0.2 percent are on 3.0. I don’t think the Motorola Xoom is selling very well.

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Plastic Mobile Deliver a One of a Kind Pizza
Ordering iPhone

Plastic Mobile has joined Pizza Pizza, Canada's leading pizza chain, as their mobile agency to help build and launch an iPhone application to make ordering and delivering pizza both convenient and fast. This free app is available for all iPhone models, the iPod touch, and the iPad. The app will let users build the pizza of their dreams; a half order of ham & pineapple and the other half Italian sausage, extra mushrooms, no cheese, and easy on the sauce? All can be done on this app.

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Conan O’Brien’s Farewell Speech in
Kinetic Typography

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World of Goos iPad Launch Numbers

2D Boy:

In the first month of sales on the iPad App Store, World of Goosold 125K copies (thanks to being prominently featured by Apple).In comparison, World of Goo?s best 31 day period on WiiWare was68K copies (thanks to a mass mailing by Nintendo), and on Steam itwas 97K copies (thanks to two promotions at discounted prices). Sofar, the iPad version is by far the fastest selling version of thegame, both in terms of number of units sold and in revenuegenerated.
What makes this even more amazing is that this is a two year oldgame released on a platform that is less than a year old. The iPaddoesn?t have the benefit of an install base built up overseveral years.

This is what makes iOS different than Android.

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