Two auto performance meters for iPhone

July 30, 2008

I’ve seen a lot of fun accelerometer uses in the App Store so far, but that is probably the coolest — Dynolicious will actually use your iPhone’s accelerometer to determine all kinds of stuff about how awesome your ‘92 Subaru is, from 0-60 and 1/4 mile duration up to lateral Gs and horsepower. Just…

iPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments

July 25, 2008

Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino. Mr. Jobs, TEAR DOWN that NDA.

If the new iPhone 2.1 beta firmware is anything, it’s a perfect excuse to say: “I told you so.” It explains why the NDA floped to vanish on schedule. Apple kept its promise — “Ve shall delivah the 2.0 iPhone und…

Longtime mobile developer feels no love from Apple

July 18, 2008

Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs produce it to the store.

TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone

July 18, 2008

In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. that is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright’s sure…

MobileMe not so pushy

July 15, 2008

Many commenters and bloggers hither and yon have noticed that MobileMe lacks “true push” capabilities, even though Apple uses the “push” buzzword extensively to describe MobileMe services.

A commenter in a MacRumors thread about the subject took screenshots from Apple’s site, showing they ha…

iPhone game news from EA’s press conference at E3

July 15, 2008

I’m at E3 in Los Angeles all week for TUAW’s sister site Joystiq, and that afternoon we got to see the Electronic Arts press conference at the Orpheum Theater. Among bigger EA games like Spore and Dead Space, Travis Boatman (who has graced these pages before talking about mobile games on the iPh…

Create Digital Music on early iPhone music apps

July 11, 2008

Peter Kirn by at Create Digital Music has weighed in on early iPhone music apps. His verdict? You’d still do better to get a PSP or a Nintendo DS for handheld music apps. While the App Store has metronomes, guitar tuners and the like, there’s nothing really exciting there yet.

It’s a shame, t…

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