Glass Steve Jobs Made Famous Now Bigger than Apple’s iPhone
Bloomberg’s Adam Johnson visits the Corning Glass’s New York headquarters, where Guerilla Glass is fabricated. The primary encasement for Apple’s iPhone, the glass product is ubquitous across the consumer electronics industry.
Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It’s infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watch faces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life.
iPhone App Makes Map Navigation Easier to Visualize
Crossfader has developed Version 1.4 of AR-MAPS, an iPhone app that supports augmented reality (AR) on maps. AR is one of visualization solutions. This map application represents the ground on the bottom half of the screen, showing a map there. On the top half, it shows a video, with AR tags attached to destinations on it. This makes navigation easier to visualize.
Compared with the first version, the new version has features to reduce battery consumption, such as powering the camera down when not in AR mode. Also, if the iPhone is fixed in place, such as in a car, the mode can be set not to change if the phone’s orientation is changed.
Summly: News Noise Trimmed
He launched the second and improved version of Summly, a mobile app that generates bite-sized summaries of news stories that fit neatly on your phone screen. No scrolling, no tapping, no chasing down links to media website. Just the news, or as much that can fit in 350-500 words.
The app, which was released Thursday for the iPhone, pulls in news articles from hundreds of online sources and uses an algorithm to extract key words and phrases to build a coherent summary. D’Aloisio said Summly gives readers more content than a Tweet, but doesn’t overwhelm them with pages of text.
Steve Jobs’ Apple legacy ended with the iPhone 4GS, or did it?
Produced by Mondo Media, directed by Aaron Simpson, a holoram version of Steve Jobs returns as a rapper to introduce the iPhone 5 in the animated parody.
Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ A No-Show at WWDC Keynote
Steve Jobs’ showman’s skill kept WWDC attendees in anticipation year after year. This time around, Apple CEO Tim Cook tried on Jobs’ shoes and let the iPhone 5 rumor blogs steal his thunder.
Electric Scoot Sharing with Scoot
Scoot Networks, launched in the Bay Area, rolls out this summer, allowing users to share their electric scooters via their IPhone app. By providing analytics around your speed, battery level and distance, Scoot hopes to compete with Zipcar, providing its space saver and electric advantage. Another key advantage is with its top speed of 30 mph, it opens rental to everyone because of its classification as a moped.
Early iPhone Prototypes | Tony Fadell
Former SVP of Apple’s iPod division, Tony Fadell, discusses the development of the original iPhone, including a phone with an iPod click wheel, and the internal debate over a physical keyboard.
There is no doubt that there has been an explosion in the mobile app development market. The success of apps like Angry Birds (Rovio), Flipboard and now Clear (Realmac) has accelerated the focus into development for smart phones, with close to 210,000 apps being built between May and September of 2011 alone. But do not be fooled by the sheer volume; the execution of development to implementation has been successfully carried out by only a small bunch. Our link provides an interesting case study in order to help budding app developers understand the finer details.
iOS:
2010: 338,000 | 2011: 589,148 | Growth: 74%
Android:
2010: 115,000 | 2011: 319,774 | Growth: 178%
Speaking of Android being a nice little business for companies not named Google, it’s only fair to point out that the iPhone is also a nice business for companies beyond Apple. In fact, as Charles Arthur writes for The Guardian:
The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such as its Maps as well as Google Search in its Safari browser, generated more than four times as much revenue for Google as its own handsets in the same period.
So while Android may have only made $550 million in revenue for Google in the past three years combined, at least they’ve been able to squeeze over $2 billion out of Apple’s devices in the same span.
Of course, Apple has squeezed well over $100 billion in revenues just on the sale of those products alone over the same span.
(via emergentfutures)
