Use of the “Core Location” feature v/s Advertising: Apple sets the rules of the game
As mentionned by Arnaud, in Mac4ever’s blog,
the Core Location feature, in the iphone, to enhance applications with location-based information such as local weather, nearby restaurants, ATMs..will not be accepted by Apple if used for adverising revenue purpose:
“If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s [...]
In France, Apple gets the podium first place
However in the world, Nokia, Samsung and LG monopolize the top three in the order. But in France, the second place is deserved to Apple, and the first to Samsung. An atypical country isn’t it? Some reasons can explain this situation: France is the only country who broke the sole rights between Apple and the [...]
The fight goes on, but Apple is growing even more
In the latest Gartner review of mobile phone and Smartphone sales, director Carolina Milanesi announces that Apple sold 5.4 million iPhones in the second quarter of 2009.
It is the largest growth of any Smartphone brand. Apple is jumping from a 2.8 percent market share to a 13.3 percent. “Apple’s expansion into a larger number of [...]
No future for app stores?
In the debate about which technologic system will be interesting to develop for, Google takes a little bit schizoid position. In an interview, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president, says that the web had already won, because smart phones users would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. “What we clearly see happening [...]
Apple improves its appStore search engine
Soon, Apple will help developers to make their apps more easily reachable on the Apple’s App Store.
The solution: keywords tagging into applications. With a maximum of 255 characters, the keywords will change the way consumers search an app, because they will not only be found by its name, or the developer name, but also [...]
Good results for Apple and LG
The two high tech companies reveal great results on the increase, thanks to their phone division. It is a record on the second quarter for the Korean firm who sells 29,8 millions of cell phones, and also for the third fiscal quarter to Cupertino’s company. The iPhone’s sells increase 123% on the first three months!
Ipod’s Father Rubinstein to pilot Palm
Actual Palm’s Chairman Jon Rubinstein moves to become Palm’s new CEO.
Certainly a real good perspective for the company !
Jon Rubinstein to Helm Palm ( theAppleBlog)
Apple iPhone 3G S
Apple introduced his brand new iPhone 3G S during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.
iPhone 3G S offers:
an up to 2 times faster experience,
a built-in video camera and video edition right on the iPhone,
a voice control,
an improved battery,
a compass.
More information about iPhone 3G S : Apple
The new iPhone includes to new iPhone OS 3.0, coming on [...]
