Dan Frommer on How Amazon Could Become a Tablet
Player

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 08:04:02 PM. © Daring Fireball

Dan Frommer makes the case for Amazon as a potential tablet competitor. This tweet by Jeff Kibuule makes the case succinctly:

Amazon is the only other company than Apple with a completeecosystem of movies, music, apps, and web.

And, of course, user accounts backed by credit cards.

One problem seemingly no one addresses in reviews of Android tablets is how one is supposed to, say, load them up with a movie or two for an airplane trip. Google has no answer for that. Amazon could.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tablet-2011-3

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Animal Pop Popping up the iOS Charts

post from prMac on 22 March 2011 06:07:00 PM. © prMac

Following the wild success of Burn the Rope, Big Blue Bubble is proud to announce their partnership with startup Krot and Enot in the arrival of their latest joint effort, Animal Pop! It's a bubble popping bonanza where you pop bubbles to save pets. Pop two or more bubbles of the same color to float all of the animals to the top and win! Save all of the bunnies, squirrels, skunks, foxes, and raccoons with super fun power-ups.

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Everyday 1.0

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 06:05:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of cool new apps with Sandwich videos: Everyday, an iPhone app for taking daily pictures of yourself and then, after you’ve accumulated a bunch of them, putting them together into a “looking at me, getting older and getting haircuts and shit” time-lapse video. $1.99 on the App Store.

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http://everyday-app.com/

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Eight Easy Steps

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 06:05:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

Justin Williams on the process of installing the Amazon Appstore on your Android device:

There should never be an eight step installation process in mobilecomputing. Unless Amazon is able to net a killer, exclusiveapplication that?s unavailable anywhere else, I am hard-pressedto find any logic or reason why this will succeed.

I think this is Amazon’s first step towards launching their own Amazon-branded (or perhaps Kindle-branded) Android devices, where the Amazon Appstore will be preinstalled, and the devices will ship from Amazon with your Amazon credentials already set up on the device (as with the Kindle hardware today). They’re launching now, for existing Android devices, to work out the kinks and build the library of available titles.

Even with the arduous installation process for existing Android devices, I wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon’s store soon surpasses Google’s Android Market. Amazon knows how to sell digital content; Google doesn’t.

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http://carpeaqua.com/2011/03/22/8-easy-steps/

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Digital Subscription Prices Visualized

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 06:05:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

The NYT is way out of line with what people are accustomed to paying for online services.

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http://theunderstatement.com/post/4019228737/digital-subscription-prices-visualiz
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Flow: Task Management and Online Collaboration
for Teams

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 04:05:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

Very attractive new web app (with an iPhone companion app) for task management, with team sharing features. This is the closest thing I’ve seen to my idea task management setup. You owe it to yourself to at least watch their Sandwich video.

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http://www.getflow.com/

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iWallet for iPhone Was Reviewed by FreshApps

post from prMac on 22 March 2011 03:13:00 PM. © prMac

Apt Infoway, Developers of iWallet today announced that their app iWallet got reviewed by Freshapps. iWallet is a powerful money management tool. It offers powerful, dynamic performance for people on the go, giving them a portable resource for managing their money. The app manages a ton of comprehensive information yet is easy to use, requiring only a tap to enter or read information.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-23238.htm

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The Dailys Pricing

post from Daring Fireball on 22 March 2011 03:05:35 PM. © Daring Fireball

Patrick LaForge on Twitter:

One test of the @Gruber “simplicity theorem” will be Murdoch’s TheDaily iPad app, built with full Apple support and promotion.

The Daily has Apple’s support and some promotional help, but I certainly wouldn’t call it Apple’s “full” support and promotion. It’s a News Corp. venture, not a joint News Corp./Apple venture.

But the bigger point is that I’m not arguing that simplicity of pricing is the only thing matters. Everything matters. I’d say The Daily’s success depends on three things: the quality of their software, the quality of their journalism, and their pricing. They’ve got the pricing nailed: $1/week or $40/year. The software stinks, though, and so far, I’m not a fan of their journalism. If The Daily fails, it doesn’t mean they got the pricing wrong.

There’s no doubt in my mind that The New York Times is worth more than The Daily. I’d pay double what The Daily charges for The Times, without batting an eyelash. But The Times is charging five times more.

One more thought on The Times’s pricing: What’s thinking behind charging more to use their iPad app than their smartphone apps? If I’m paying for the content, what difference does it make how big my screen is? To me, the extra $5/month they’re charging for iPad app access indicates that they see iPad users as suckers to be fleeced.

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https://twitter.com/palafo/status/50208505155686401

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Project Chameleon

Open source framework from Sean Heber and Craig Hockenberry:

Chameleon is a drop in replacement for UIKit that runs on Mac OSX. In many cases, your iOS code doesn’t need to change at all inorder to run on a Mac. […]
Our approach with Chameleon was to use native AppKit constructs inthe context of UIKit. The glue that holds these two frameworkstogether is Core Animation.

It ends up the current Mac version of Twitterrific was built using Chameleon. Great stuff, and they’re raising money to fund further development.

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http://chameleonproject.org/

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Kleer Theme Combines Power and Potential With
Form and Polish

Ontario based RapidWeaver theme developer seyDoggy is excited to introduce Kleer, a new theme that utilizes the full power and potential of smart technology but with a strong focus on form and polish. As a seyDoggy Ultimate theme, Kleer comes fully loaded with powerful features including a built in slideshow. seyDoggy has also employed the new HTML5 and CSS3 working drafts. Kleer officially supports the most recent versions of IE, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-23328.htm

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