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Tim Cook Talks About Closing Apple Stores and Paying App Developers $8 Billion

By | February 12, 2013 | 1 comment
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paloaltoapplestoreDuring its first quarter conference call, Apple revealed that it had paid a whopping $7 billion dollars to app developers. At his keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference this morning, Tim Cook updated Apple’s payout figures, announcing that the company had paid $8 billion to developers, marking $1 billion in payouts since January 13.

That’s a remarkable increase in developer payouts. In October of 2012, the amount paid to developers was just $6.5 billion, meaning Apple’s holiday season brought in about $1.5 billion for developers, as millions of people hit the App Store with newly purchased devices to download apps.

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Traditional Play Goes Digital With the Littlest Pet Shop Game App

By | February 12, 2013 | No comment yet
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lpsappLittlest Pet Shop is now available for iOS. What? What was that sound, you say? It was the sound of countless 7-year-old girls shrieking with excitement. Littlest Pet Shop for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch was released last November, but it just got a big update.

A player may now collect a virtual version of the toy pets she has purchased directly on her smartphone or tablet and unlock extra virtual bonuses. The universal app is free to download from the App

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An Awesome Book of Love, Free for Valentine’s Day — Starbucks Pick of the Week

By | February 12, 2013 | No comment yet
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abloveappReading self-published writing phenom Dallas Clayton‘s An Awesome Book of Love is a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The iBooks version of this feel good title retails for $11.99, but as Starbucks Pick of the Week, it’s free.

For anyone unfamiliar with the Pick of the Week, every Tuesday Starbucks offers customers a free iOS download or two. The ubiquitous coffee chain prints up little paper cards that include a code for an iOS freebie. Redeem the code to receive a download such as a song from a popular artist, an iOS app, an iBook, or an episode of a TV show to watch in iTunes.

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Apple iTunes More Profitable Than Most Smartphone Vendors

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Asymco iTunes analysis

Research firm Asymco recently released a report on Revenue generated by Apple’s iTunes store and it turns out that the company is doing remarkably well in the software department. So well, in fact, that iTunes alone is Apple’s fourth largest revenue generator, above the iPod and combined with Apple-built accessories, is a bigger business than all other smartphone vendors except Samsung.

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Inkling Launches Publishing Tool To Compete With Apple and Amazon

By | February 12, 2013 | No comment yet
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InklingIn a press event in New York yesterday, digital publisher Inkling announced a new publishing tool for professionals that will directly compete with Apple’s iBooks Author. The software company has made a lucrative business of selling ebooks for education, art, and more.

From yesterday’s event, it seems like Inkling wants to take things to the next step and push Apple and Amazon out the back door.

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Apple Applies For Image-Based Authentication Software for Unlocking iOS Devices

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Image-Based Authentication Patent

Apple has been applying for a lot of authentication system patents lately. Patently Apple points out that, within the past year, the US Patent & Trade Office published three different patents; a facial recognition invention, a two-step slide-to-unlock invention and a basic fingerprint scanning process. On February 7, the USPTA published a patent from Apple regarding image-based authentication. No one knows which new security measures will be implemented in future iOS devices, but at least one of them will be the next generation of authentication software.

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PadGadget’s Ask the Expert – Get All Your iPad Questions Answered

By | February 12, 2013 | 2 comments
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asktheexpertIn last week’s edition of Ask the Expert, we had some great questions on watching YouTube videos offline, turning off Game Center, and using the Apple TV. This week we have even more useful questions for you, so check after the break to find out about recovering deleted apps, apps that crash, and how to fix iPads that play sound even when muted.

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UC Irvine Students Using iPads to Learn Scored 23% Higher on Exams

By | February 12, 2013 | No comment yet
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ipadmedschoolBack in 2010, UC Irvine began a learning initiative called iMedEd, which furnished first-year medical students with an iPad that came equipped with everything they would need for their first year of coursework.

The program, which aimed to reinvent how medicine was taught, included the development of a comprehensive, iPad-based curriculum. Three years later, it looks like iMedEd is a wild success.

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PadGadget Photobooth: Turn Your Photos into Watercolor Works of Art with Popsicolor

By | February 12, 2013 | No comment yet
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popsicolorPopsicolor is one of those must have photo apps that does something no other app in the App Store accomplishes. It is unique in a lot of ways, morphing your photos into gorgeous illustrations with high quality watercolor and ink effects.

It may not be a new app, having been released in June of 2012, but Popsicolor is a photo app that I’ve been using faithfully since it first came out, and I wanted to share it with those of you who may not have seen it before. Popsicolor also received a recent update, adding a whole slew of new colors, enhancements, and focus options, making it better than ever.

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PadGadget Daily App Deal – 10 iPad Apps on Sale

By | February 11, 2013 | No comment yet
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PadGadget Daily App Deal – 10 iPad Apps on Sale  For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 10 great apps to add to your iPad collection.  We have 2 productivity / entertainment apps and 8 game apps in today’s bundle.

We used our PadGadget Apps Tracker to find these great deals and we’ll continue to look for the best app deals as they pop-up. Some of these apps are up to 80% off, several are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.

Check out all the sale apps after the break »

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