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Apple has announced the iPhone 5 and, frankly, I wasn’t really impressed with it. There was no feature announced that people didn’t already knew from the unprecedented amount of information leaks about this new iPhone that the media reported. It was a ho-hum product, to say the least.
What I got excited about, on the other hand, are the newly redesigned iPod Touch and iPod Nano. [Read more…]
The road to application approval hasn’t always been smooth, with apps approved and then pulled, or outright banned on rather shaky grounds, but that hasn’t stopped Apple powering to 100,000 approved apps in the iTunes App Store.
The web site Appshopper.com has counted 102,485 approved applications and 93,659 available.
That’s a mind-boggling number, and unfortunately says nothing about the quality of those applications. Bear in mind that there are many variations on the same theme, and some (a lot) of them are complete and utter rubbish. [Read more…]
Yesterday’s new product announcements from Apple included the upgraded iPod nano with a built-in video camera that’s capable of shooting VGA (640×480) quality footage at 30fps.
Whilst the YouTube generation is likely to love this, it’s another example of Apple no longer innovating but lagging behind.
I say this as an Apple fanboy, though perhaps not as much a one as I used to be.
Remember the days when Apple were the first to either add a feature as standard to their equipment (CD burner on Macs) or bring hardware to the masses (iPod)? It seems that Apple is doing this less now.
Apple may well believe that video is the in thing right now, but as far as I’m concerned it’s been “in” for a few years, and not just amongst early adopters. [Read more…]