MLB.com at Bat 11

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 10:03:29 PM. © Daring Fireball

I’ve said it before and will say it again: I love the MLB At Bat apps for iOS. If you’re a baseball fan, especially if you like watching out of market games, you are out of your mind if you don’t have these apps. This is the future of sports broadcasting.

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Claim Chowder: Anders Bylund

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 10:03:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

Andrers Bylund at Fool.com in March 2010, “HP and Friends Will Kill the iPad”:

I think I’ve mentioned this once or twice before, but it bearsrepeating until it sinks in: the Apple iPad is not unique, nornecessarily the best of breed in the media tablet sector it isspearheading. And it ain’t gonna help Apple shareholdersany.
Sure, the iPad will sell a few million units to the Applefaithful, of whom there are many. Being very little else than anoversized iPod Touch, or an extra-large iPhone without the phone,iPads will appeal to the same people who already use the minusculeversions. But there’s a flash flood of competing products comingup, and the iPad’s selling points of brand name, stylish design,and familiar user experience will have a hard time overcoming whatit lacks, like running multiple programs at once, presenting afull-featured Web experience with Adobe Flash support, or doinganything you can’t already get in the smaller iPod or iPhonepackages.

Of course, the HP tablet he thought was going to kill the iPad wasn’t the TouchPad, but rather the Windows 7-running “slate” that Steve Ballmer heralded at CES in 2010. But it’s not like Bylund has ever done better. Here’s a bit from his self-linked “ain’t gonna help” piece, from just two months earlier, “Worst Stocks of 2010: Apple”:

You’ve heard all about stocks being “priced to perfection,” butApple is way beyond that stage already. It’s priced through thefabled Reality Distortion Field, as though Steve Jobs will pullout iPhone-class megahits until the end of time — meaning thatthe iSlate will be a killer product, Macs will continue to stealmarket share, and the iPhone will wade ankle-deep through theblood and hydraulic oil of its many adversaries.

At the time, Apple’s stock price was around $200 a share. Since then, the “iSlate” has become a killer product, the Mac has continued to steal market share, and the iPhone 4 is the top-selling handset in the world. Today Apple’s stock closed at $366.

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http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/anders_bylund

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Pirate Gunner Free Hits the App Store - Price
Drop for HD Version too

post from prMac on 18 August 2011 08:10:00 PM. © prMac

Black Pearl Games has introduced Pirate Gunner Hd Free 1.0, for iOS devices. Covering the beginning 6 levels in the story mode and the beginning 10 levels of the Puzzle Mode, a fresh taste of the pirate life awaits you! You'll quickly get wrapped up in this fun filled story of pirate treasure hunting and romance through it's cool animated artwork and grand musical score. Along with the release of Pirate Gunner HD Free, Pirate Gunner HD is on sale for a limited time starting today.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-29649.htm

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What Happens When You Count the iPad as a PC

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 08:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

Apple becomes the leading PC-maker, by unit sales, in the world.

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http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde/xchg/displaysearch/hs.xsl/110818_apple_retak
es_top_mobile_pc_market_share_position_from_hp_in_q2_11.asp

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Rebecca Lynn Believes in Free

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 08:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

Venture capitalist Rebecca Lynn thinks Google will use its acquisition of Motorola to give away free Android phones:

I acknowledge the arguments that Google?s bill of materials onsmartphones, perhaps in the hundreds-of-dollars range, would betoo big a subsidy to absorb — at this present time. That cost isincreasingly decreasing. If Google is betting on a future that ismobile-centric, this is a bet that?s worth taking.

If we’re talking free as in “no-contract free”, keep in mind that most estimates of Google’s search revenue per Android user are in the range of $6-10 per year. So if you figure people keep their phones for two or three years, these giveaway phones would have to cost — what? — maybe $10 or $20 in order for Google to turn a profit?

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http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/08/17/are-free-motorola-phones-in-our-f
uture-a-vc?s-take-on-why-google-is-buying-motorola/

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Number One Plus

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 08:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

HP’s Eric Candor, three months ago:

“In the tablet world, we’re going to become better than numberone. We call it number one plus.”

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http://techland.time.com/2011/05/23/number-one-plus-can-hps-tablet-take-down-the-
ipad/

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HP to Cease Making WebOS Devices

post from Daring Fireball on 18 August 2011 08:03:16 PM. © Daring Fireball

Derek Kessler, PreCentral:

We knew HP was having trouble selling webOS devices, and as partof their quarterly fiscal announcement, they announced that theyplan to discontinue operations for webOS devices, to include theTouchPad and webOS phones.

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http://www.precentral.net/breaking-hp-shutting-down-webos-device-operations-will-
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Touch Golf Designs Releases Animal Coins Golf for
iPhone/iPod touch

Touch Golf Designs today announced that their first app, Animal Coins Golf, is now available exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. Animal Coins Golf is an app that tracks and automatically calculates the payout for a fun side bet game played during a round of golf. In Animal Coins Golf, the user sets up the side game by identifying the coins to represent certain shots, such as hitting in the water, and the value for the coins. You assign the coins during the round of golf in the app.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-29559.htm

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BoinxTV Gears Up for Back to School Season

Boinx Software is gearing up for the 2011 back to school season with classrooms and schools all over the country. As more and more educators strive to integrate technology into the classroom, BoinxTV has quickly become a fan favorite among students and teachers alike for its user-friendly workflow and engaging video production capabilities. From creating a school news show, to broadcasting school events, or even making a full documentary, BoinxTV makes classroom projects more vivid and exciting.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-29648.htm

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Zoomable Media releases Deadball Heroes, richly
enhanced for iBooks

Zoomable Media has announced the release of Deadball Heroes for Apple's iBooks app on all iOS devices. It features hundreds of high-resolution touch-zoomable baseball card images drawn from the Libary of Congress. Dozens of Deadball Era players are profiled. Deadball Heroes is an ebook detailing the lives of dozens of late 19th and early 20th century baseball pioneers, enhancing their colorful stories with hundreds of high-resolution, card images drawn from the US Library of Congress collection.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-29547.htm

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