[読んだ] iPhone competition with Nintendo DS and Sony PSP makes companies rethink approach to game apps

Gangstar, a downloadable game for the iPhone, bears distinct similarities to Grand Theft Auto.
As the game offerings for the iPhone grow in numbers and sophistication, the touch-screen gadget has emerged as a competitor to hand-held gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. The result: Major game companies are rethinking how they handle the market.

大手にはどんどんと名前の知れたゲームを投下してもらいたいものです。
移植でもいいから。

[読んだ] Creepy iPhone Parodies - Adam Sacks Creates a Stalker-Approved iPhone Commercial (VIDEO)

Creepy iPhone Parodies - Adam Sacks Creates a Stalker-Approved iPhone Commercial (VIDEO)


Adam Sacks Creates a Stalker-Approved iPhone Commercial
Published: Aug 30, 09
Views: 94

Adam Sacks’ iPhone commercial is a parody that proves that, as Apple says, there really is an app for everything—even when there shouldn’t be.

Adam Sacks’ iPhone commercial takes us through a series of iPhone apps that get into an ex-girlfriend’s calendar, automatically schedule emotional calls, locate a lawyer skilled at restraining orders, and locate a Match.com profile of a single female who looks just like the narrator’s ex-girlfriend.

Check out some other hilarious parodies below.

Narration: Matt Mayer Ex-Girlfriend: Lauren Adams Matched Girl: Cody Lindquist Other Faces: Erin Kilkenny, Katy Horan, Rebecca Pappas, Dave Zackin, Melinda Taub (viralvideochart.unrulymedia)

References: adamthinks, viralvideochart.unrulymedia



なんというブラックユーモアw

[読んだ] Apple's Tablet Could Be Larger than Expected

There have been numerous rumors saying that Apple is prepping a tablet with a 10-inch screen, but a new report says this device could be much larger than this.

A source in Asia claims to have see two Apple tablets in a factory, one with 13-inch display, and a second with a 15-inch display. 

This comes on the heels of a separate unconfirmed report, saying that this company is also considering a tablet with a screen smaller than 10 inches. This version apparently looks like a super-sized iPod touch.

新しいウワサ。
個人的な予想としては、現在1種類しかないMacBookに置き換わるかたちでtabletが出てくるんじゃないかと。
このウワサはその予想を裏付けそうな話題です。

[読んだ] Technology: Dropbox for the iPhone is here. If Apple approves it. (PICS)

"Access your Dropbox on the go -  All the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing.  You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your iPhone.
Download files for offline viewing  - Add files to your ‘Favorites’, and they’ll be accessible at any time.
Take photos and videos and sync them to your Dropbox  - Take a photo from your iPhone and email its public link to a friend in less than a minute.
Share links to files in your Dropbox  - What?  Any file in your Dropbox?  Srsly?
Photo galleries  - Just like the ones online."

使ってはいませんが評価の高いDropbox。
アプリが出たら使い始めるかも。

[読んだ] RobotVision: A Bing-Powered iPhone Augmented Reality Browser

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Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won't find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone's camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or business is intriguing. That's what forthcoming iPhone app RobotVision offers - and it displays a view of Tweets and Flickr photos published nearby wherever you are.

RobotVision is a new Augmented Reality (AR) app for the iPhone 3Gs. It's not available yet, but it will be as soon as AR apps are formally welcomed into the App Store by Apple, probably sometime next month. AR browsers "turn the world inside out" by exposing latent online information about your surroundings; there will soon be enough of them that they will compete based on user experience. RobotVision looks like it could be a good one.

これは面白いですね。
是が非でも次のiPod touchにはカメラを付けてもらわないと。

[読んだ] TUAW Launches iPhone App

Our friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog just launched a new iPhone app (already #3 in the free news category on the App Store), available now via iTunes [iTunes link] and via the TUAW app page.

You mobile Mac-heads out there probably know about i.tuaw.com, the iPhone-optimized version of TUAW. Why go native? The new app offers offline browsing, allows you to bookmark articles for later reading, features Twitter/e-mail/Facebook-sharing capability, and lets you view that retro Mac design gallery in glorious full screen.

なかなか良さげです。

[読んだ] The iPhone App Market Size Debate: Is It $2.4B a Year or $250M? AdMob Responds

AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile advertising company, yesterday released a report that indicated Apple’s iPhone App Store generates about $200 million a month, or a run rate of some $2.4 billion a year.

iPhoneユーザーとiPod touchユーザーを比較した数字は面白いですね。

[読んだ] Rumor: Apple planning new iPods with cameras | Apple - CNET News

The fact that Apple would use a September event to launch new iPods wouldn't be a big surprise, but the new iPod Nano and iPod Touch will reportedly have cameras. AppleInsider didn't cite sources for this detail but said it "has it on authority" and that it has been able to "independently confirm" the information.

The addition of cameras would increase the functionality of iPods, making them dual-purpose devices.

この記事にはclassicの名前がありませんね。