The BBC’s Director of Future Media & Technology, Erik Huggers says in a statement this morning that the Trust’s decision opens the door to Blackberry and Android apps which will follow later this year. The BBC News iOS app is ‘universal’ meaning it is designed for use with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The first iteration hits the App Store today but the BBC says future plans include: … Apple Releases App To Help Customers Claim Their Free iPhone 4 Bumper …
Android not open. I’ve written several times that the openness argument made against Apple’s iPhone in general, and by Google against Apple in particular is overblown and often disingenuous. Sure, other smartphones might theoretically …
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The days of simply taking a single photo on your iPhone are fading. The first batch of photo apps we reviewed showed users how to add a border or different tint to a solo photo and many other one-dimensional tweaks.
Apparently, Apple’s App Store has a category called “Apps for Girls.” Among the iPhone’s “essential” Apps for Girls are MASH, Fashion Fix, and lastly, Math Flash Cards, because girls are bad at math. To quote Barbie: “Math class is …
iPhone owners really want another iPhone. Android owners… they’re not big fans of Android after all.
Now, compare Apple’s users with the Android folk. The same research firm finds that while iPhone users upgrade fast, Android users, well. Android users just don’t. Not just that, but they also reveal, “In households with multiple devices, … you need to redownload the app to restore since all your apps will have been deleted. And the best part is, they don’t tell you beforehand this will happen, so unless you hang around Android forums, chances are you won’t know. …
The iPhone’s newly offered multitasking is almost an exact copy of Android’s multitasking. The *only* real difference is that Apple reserves the right to arbitrarily deny the use of services in any random application. …
Expected soon after the launch of its music subscription service last fall, MOG’s iPhone and Android mobile apps will allow access to a library of more than 8 million songs for a monthly fee of about $10. That represents an increasingly …
BBC Trust rules that corporation’s smartphone apps do not need to pass full public value test, despite rivals’ concerns. The BBC Trust has given given the all-clear to the launch of the BBC’s iPhone apps despite commercial rivals’ …
