[読んだ] Wound magazine goes iPhone; Arts lovers rejoice!

iWound app

Wound magazine is yet another media to “go iPhone.” The publication that “celebrates edginess and originality through works that inspire in art, fashion, architecture and design” has a dedicated application in the AppStore called iWound, developed to complement the print and online versions of the magazine.

A short note from their own description of the application:

With over 400 pages of magazine content, iWound exists to bring creative culture close-up to a global mobile audience.

That should be enough for all Wound fans. AppStore link is here, and the app costs $4.99.

雑誌のアプリ化という流れは今後、活発になっていくんでしょうかねぇ。
広告収入が期待できなくなってるという話を聞きますが、アプリで全世界に有料発信すれば何とかやっていけるんでしょうか。

[読んだ] Report: Apple tablet on track for early 2010 | Apple - CNET News

There are now multiple rumors/reports/speculation that an Apple tablet would be essentially an oversize iPod Touch, and will cost somewhere between a $299 iPhone/iPod Touch and the $999 MacBook.

タブレットって噂になってるApple版ネットブックのことですかね。
MacBook Proの新ラインナップで印象の薄くなったMacBookの位置に投入してくる感じなんでしょうかね、値段的にも。

[読んだ] Report: iPhone app pulls in $1 million in first six weeks | Software, Interrupted - CNET News

F.A.S.T iPhone app
Apparently you can make a lot of money with an iPhone application. According to TechCrunch, Social Gaming Network's (SGN) Fleet Air Superiority Training F.A.S.T. dogfight game "pulled in over $1 million in download fees alone in the first six weeks it was available."

これ遊んだことないんですが、すごく売れてるんですね。

そういえばApp Sotreで見たことあるような。

[読んだ] Apple Needs to Fix the iPhone App Store’s Race to the Bottom

The current app store layout, as MacRumors points out, is unfair to more expensive applications. While they may not be purchased by hundreds of thousands of people for $0.99, they are just as important, if not more important, to the iPhone experience. Yet they don’t often appear on the top 100 paid apps list because they don’t get the purchasing volume cheaper apps experience.

More expensive apps like the $9.99 DopplerPad (which we reviewed earlier today) need a fairer system for getting into the App store rankings. There needs to be additional ways to organize application content that is easier on the user. In addition, there needs to be a new method for determining the top paid apps in the iPhone app store.

Until Apple fixes this, quality apps won’t get the fair shake they deserve. We’re glad Mr. Cook acknowledged that Apple can do better, which is hopefully an indication of improvements in the near future.

現在のApp Storeは開発者にとって不公平なだけで終わらず、ユーザーにとっても優れたアプリの存在に気付かないでいる不幸を、Appleにとってはさらなる売上が望める機会を逃してしまっている不幸を招いてる気がしますね。

[読んだ] New iPod touch and nano: more details - mirror.co.uk

Apple’s plans for a new iPod touch and iPod nano have been well and truly rumbled. After a “well–connected” source talked up a camera-toting iPod touch, new case designs for both the new touch and iPod nano again show off Cupertino’s snap–happy new direction for the world’s favourite PMP.

Plans for the next–gen iPod touch and iPod nano have been nailed on for a few weeks now. But the latest batch of shots of new cases from China throw up some interesting tidbits about Apple’s latest efforts, due for an official airing in September.

The new iPod touch appears to have a camera slap bang in the middle of its rear, rather than offset like the one on the iPhone. There’s no word on whether this will better the 3.2–megapixel number in the iPhone 3GS.

As for the new iPod nano, the body remains much the same, with the screen getting slightly wider and a camera shoved in the corner. That means you’ll hold it like a conventional compact to take pics.

そういえば以前、次期iPod touchには5メガのカメラを付けるのではないかというウワサがありましたね。
カメラの位置をセンターに持ってくることがiPhoneの3メガより高くなる理由になってるのかはさておき、ちょっとでもiPhoneよりスペックが上回ってくれると嬉しいですね。