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iPad Helps Boost Apple Share of Mobile PC Shipments to 27%

By | February 23, 2012 | No comment yet
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According to NPD DisplaySearch, a company that tracks mobile PC shipments, Apple shipped a total of 23.4 million mobile PCs in the fourth quarter of 2011, a number that includes 18.7 million iPads, or 80 percent of holiday quarter shipments.

Apple’s combined shipments gave the company 26.6 percent of the mobile PC market share, which accounted for a quarterly increase of 128 percent over the same quarter in 2010. Not bad for a company that just a few years ago held single digit marketshare in this category.

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Garmin Debuts BlueChart Mobile Marine App for iPad

By | February 14, 2012 | No comment yet
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Garmin International is announced the launch of their new BlueChart Mobile Marine iPad App in conjunction with the Miami International Boat Show this week. Designed with mariners in mind, this app offers boating enthusiasts the same feature rich and highly accurate BlueChart data that is currently found in Garmin’s popular marine chart plotters.

The app also features full access to ActiveCaptain, “a web-based community that provides real-time content generated by mariners for mariners.” This service is very valuable as it provides a venue for posting as well as referencing non-commercial reviews, local knowledge, anchorages and hazard reports.

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Apple’s Version of “The Clone Wars”

By | February 4, 2012 | 5 comments
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App StoreWith one developer (Keith Shepherd, the creator of Temple Run) going so far as to accuse Apple of tainting the integrity of the App Store by allowing blatant copycat apps to be listed and thrive, many of the copycats apps have now been eliminated.

The primary offender is a developer named Anton Sinelnikov who is responsible for ripoffs like Temple Jump, Tiny Birds and Numbers With Friends. While many of his apps are things of the past as far as Apple is concerned, a lot of people are wondering how scam artists like this can be stopped before users fork over considerable sums of money (even when it is $0.99 at a time).

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Report Finds Apps Crash More Often on iOS Than on Android

By | February 3, 2012 | 4 comments
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App Crashes

I’m going to play a little bit of chicken vs. the egg on a recent discovery by Forbes that according to a Crittercism report, iOS apps crash more than those running on Android.

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Apple Pulls Counterfeit Camera+ App for iPhone and iPad from App Store

By | January 24, 2012 | 1 comment
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Though they occur rarely, counterfeit iOS apps hurt developers and users.  Apple’s thorough review process should prevent counterfeiters from being able to sell a fake product in the app store. Despite Apple’s meticulous procedures, a counterfeit version of tap tap tap‘s popular Camera+ app was detected by the eagle-eyed Glyn Evans of iPhoneography.

Apple pulled the offending app from its App Store yesterday after learning of its existence.

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Can Cheaper iPads and iBooks 2 Help Apple Bridge the Digital Divide?

By | January 19, 2012 | 3 comments
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During Apple’s much-anticipated “Education Announcement” today, the technology company unveiled several new publishing tools including an updated chapter in its download marketplace, iBooks 2, an online store for academic textbooks.

While the new option, available for the iPad, offers state-of-the-art technology for classrooms, it also raises questions about pricing and whether digital textbooks bridge the so-called digital divide—or simply make it bigger?

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Study Shows Engaged App Users Pay More

By | January 18, 2012 | No comment yet
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The prevalence of freemium games and in-app purchases surged in 2011, and will only continue to grow in 2012. Many developers have found the freemium model to be significantly more lucrative than a traditionally priced app thanks to in-app purchases, which can include virtual currency, additional levels, new weapons, or other similar features.

What spurs people to make in-app purchases? According to a new study of nearly 30 million in-app purchases by Localytics, a solid, positive relationship with the game and the developer is key, because it encourages long-term usage of an app. Of the iOS users who made a purchase in the study, 44 percent of them did not do so until they had used an app on 10 separate occasions. Read More »

Freemium Apps Predicted to be the Biggest Market in the App Store

By | January 17, 2012 | No comment yet
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Market research and analysis firm IHS iSuppli recently released a statistical report regarding the future of free-to-download apps. It has probably become obvious that free apps are dominating the App Store these days and, according to IHS iSuppli, the trend will continue to grow through 2015.

A quick glance of new apps in the App Store and it is clear that the biggest trend is free-to-download, or “freemium” apps.

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Race Through the Hills with Woody Woodpecker – iPad Game Review

By | January 17, 2012 | No comment yet
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Woody WoodpeckerCreated and brought to life by renowned cartoonist Walter Lanz, few animated characters are as recognizable and well-loved as Woody Woodpecker.

Saying this game is addictive is a serious understatement. It’s the kind of game you won’t be able to set down. The premise of the game is very simple as you race against your friends while riding the hills in each course like a roller-coaster.

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Fans of Gossip, the Enquirer iPad App Will Hit the App Store Next Month

By | January 16, 2012 | No comment yet
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The National Enquirer

Those of you looking to scope on potential baby bumps or be the first to hear who is dating who after divorcing so-in-so and getting late-night plastic surgery to hide the fact that they are actually an elite member of a secret race of super-spy aliens will be in luck! The New York Times has delivered the news that American Media Inc. is bringing a digital version of the popular National Enquirer tabloid direct to your iPad.

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