[読んだ] Melodica for iPhone Review | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld


Melodica by CandyCane allows anyone to create music in a fun and easy way, with no musical skills or knowledge required. If you can tap the screen of your iPhone or iPod touch, you can make your own tunes. (iPod touch users will need one other thing to get the most out of Melodica—headphones, so that they can hear the music.)

おもしろそうな音楽アプリですね。
でも記事にあるように、アップデートで長く遊べるアプリになった時が買い時かも。

[読んだ] Apple makes finding iPhone apps easier | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews

Ever had trouble finding a particular app at the iPhone App Store? Who hasn't? A couple weeks ago I spent like 10 minutes trying to find a game a friend had just shown me. That may have had more to do with me being intoxicated and less about the App Store's search functionality, though.

Still, things may be improving. According to AppleInsider, Apple is now asking iPhone developers to enter 255 comma-separated characters as keywords to iTunes Connect to be used for search in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch.

お、動き始めましたね。

[読んだ] MacTablet Could Run Both Mac OS X and iPhone OS

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The MacTablet should be able to run iPhone OS 3.x. At startup, the user could choose Mac OS X or the iPhone OS. And using virtualization technology, there's no reason it couldn't run the iPhone OS concurrently with Mac OS X, much as virtualizers allow running Linux or Windows on today's Macs (or include an iPhone emulator). The power is there.

かなり突っ込んだ予測ですね。
しかも、従来のMacBookとiPod touchの中間的な位置づけではなく、MacBook AirとiPhoneの間の位置づけで見てるのが興味深いところです。

[読んだ] iPhoneはAppleの正気と理性を奪ったか?

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最近のAppleは頭がオカシクなったのかな? そう思ったのは、Appleのアホな主張*(“Appleはjailbreaking(脱獄, 牢破り)を非合法化したい。なぜならそれは我が国のモバイル網のインフラを危険にさらすおそれがあり、したがって国家の安全にとって脅威となるからである。”)に対して、賛同の声は一つもなく、Appleに対する合理的で正しいと思われる罵倒の言葉ばかりを、随所で目にするからだ。いったい、何がどうなってしまったんだろう。〔*: このリンクはAppleの主張を報ずるWiredの記事に対する–大量の!–コメントの冒頭を指している。〕

iPhone関連で最近Appleを避難する言葉がネットで飛び交ってますね。
やっぱりAppleはiPod touchに注力したほうがいいのでは?そんな気がします。

[読んだ] Pipe Mania - Games,Reviews - 148Apps - iPhone App and Game Reviews and News


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Are you ready to lay some pipe? Pipe Mania is a revamped port of the classic computer game that puts your plumbing skills to the test. Puzzle games are a dime a dozen on the iPhone, but this is in the upper tier and perfect for fans old and new.

パイプつなげてくゲーム、他にもありませんでした?
iPhone/iPod touch向きのパズルゲームだから、この手のものは人気あるんでしょうね。
でもちょっと高いなぁ。115円なら買うんだけど。

[読んだ] Android-based Creative gadget aims at iPod Touch crowd

The $200 device has a 3.5-inch touchscreen, HD video capability, two (!) cameras, WiFi, GPS, 3D graphics acceleration and up to 64GB of storage (depending on how you use the SD card slot). Also intriguing is the inclusion of an accelerometer, promising either crash protection or Wii-style games.

後発機だからこそのスペックですね。

[読んだ] An Apple tablet could pit iTunes against Amazon - CNN.com [iTunes Storeで電子書籍を販売?]

This illustration imagines what an Apple tablet device might look like.

Judging from the company's past moves, we're betting that Apple's tablet will be a media-centric device, focused -- at least in part -- on shaking up the publishing industry.

Apple is already prepared to blow Amazon and other e-book makers out of the water with one key weapon: iTunes. Having served more than 6 billion songs to date, the iTunes Store has flipped the music industry on its head.

It also turned mobile software into a lucrative industry, as proven by the booming success of the iPhone's App Store, which recently surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. Apple has yet to enter the e-book market, and making books as easy to download as music and iPhone apps is the logical next step.

What can Apple do better with e-books? For textbooks or anthologies, Apple can give iTunes users the ability to download individual chapters, priced between a few cents to a few bucks each.

It would be similar to how you can currently download individual song tracks from an album. It might even have the same earthshaking potential to transform an entire industry by refocusing it on the content people actually want instead of the bundles that publishers want them to buy. (Of course, Apple would likely offer the à-la-carte purchase model in addition to the option to purchase the entire book as one download -- a more attractive option for shorter works such as novels.)

もしApple tabletの発売と同時にiTunes Storeで電子書籍を売り出したら……。
これは出版業界に大きな衝撃を与えますね。

[読んだ] Report: Apple’s Tablet Just Weeks Away | Cult of Mac

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Apple will release its fabled touchscreen tablet as early as September, the Taiwanese paper Apple Daily claims. If true, the announcement is likely just weeks away. Apple will have to put the device on store shelves by the fall in time for the crucial holiday shopping season.

Financial Timesの記事がきっかけで、来年初めから今年9月に時期が早まったApple tablet。
はてさてどうなんでしょうねぇ。