Despite a lawsuit from Apple alleging trademark infringement over the name “appstore” the Amazon Appstore launched today,
The Amazon Appstore is selling apps for Android phones and tablets in a challenge to Google’s own Android Marketplace.
And, for at least today, Amazon is giving away Angry Birds Rio, for Android, for free.
This describes a lot of us, no?
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5 things i cant live without:
music
phone
macbook
and love.
In case you missed this. Great Wired story about tech-meets-high-art genius.
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Jared Keller of The Atlantic lays out why he believes Apple will dominate the mobile world.
He writes:
Forget apps. In the coming mobile revolution, the company with the best machines will win.
And continues:
What’s Apple’s secret? It’s not apps or the app store, since virtually every app that exists for the Apple OS exists for Android as well. It’s the Hip Factor: Hooking consumers while they’re young with sexy machines.
Let’s discuss. We want to hear from the Apple-lovers and the Android-owners alike. BlackBerrys and other devices, too. Do you think Apple has essentially cornered the mobile market? Is the hardware what draws you to a mobile device? How can other devices compete?
Tell us here or at go@latimes.com
Your iPhone just got an upgrade. And now it might be easier to find it, when you lose it (not that we’ve ever done anything like that).
From the Times Technology section:
Who hasn’t dreamed of attaching a tracking device to their keys, or sunglasses or cellphone?
Apple announced on Monday that the Find My iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) feature — which helps locate a missing device by way of an online map — will be free to use without a MobileMe subscription. The service is limited to the latest-generation devices (iPhone 4, iPad or fourth-generation iPod touch) running iOS 4.2, the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, also released Monday.
These two posts explore both sides: Are older models of the iPhone having problems with the new iOS 4, or is it all in the user’s head?
Apple investigating iOS 4 complaints
IOS 4 software problems also plaguing iPhone 3GS, users say
Apple says it has no reports of problems with iOS 4 operating software from iPhone 3GS users
Picture credit: Robert Galraith / Reuters
With the Macintosh, Apple was the only company that made machines based on its operating system. Microsoft trounced it with Windows, which would be deployed be many manufacturers.
History, it seems, is repeating itself. Only difference is Google isn’t making very much money from this endeavor.
Gamers and app developers are excited that Apple plans to launch its own central gaming service called Game Center. It’s sort of like Apple’s take on Xbox Live, with matchmaking and achievements.
However, there’s already a Game Center on the App Store. Gamefly, the video game rental service, has an iPhone and iPad app called Game Center for learning about and reserving games to be mailed to you.
Gamefly doesn’t sound too concerned, despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs having a history of telling a developer to change his app’s name.
“It is a popular name, isnt it?” wrote a Gamefly spokeswoman in an e-mail. “Gamefly has no plans to change the name of the app at this time.”
Picture: GameFly Inc., a Los Angeles based company that operates a video game rental business similar to movie-rental services like Netflix. From left; CEO David Hodess, and co-founders Sean Spector and Jung Suh. Credit: Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times
