The 12 Stages Of Candy Crush Addiction
The biggest app right now will take over your life.
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Checking In With The Big Three App Stores
The state of the three major mobile platforms, as told by their top apps.
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What iPhone, Android And Windows Phone Users Like Listening To
Strangely apt lists! But not completely fair. The top albums from each platform’s music store.
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Why You Should Be Excited About The Executive Shakeup At Apple
The heads of iOS and Apple Stores are out. And lead designer Jony Ive now has more power than ever.
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The First Facebook Update Everybody Actually Likes
Facebook just updated its notoriously slow and buggy iOS app. It might look the same, but it’s totally different.
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Sparrow Users Want Their Money Back
This question always seems to come up when one of the big companies buys a little one.
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The First Thing You’ll Notice About iOS 6
It’s not the new Maps app, or Facebook integration. How one tiny UI change — “a little booger” — is stealing the show.
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The New iOS Maps Icon Wants You Dead
I guess this is what happens when you ask Siri “Is THAT rain?” one too many times. The people who designed this app can actually see this intersection from work — that’s Apple’s HQ in the bottom right.
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The Only Apple Post You Need To Read Today
New MacBooks? Mountain Lion? iOS? Here’s everything you need to know in five minutes or less.
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Here’s Something Apple Definitely Won’t Be Announcing Today
Apple’s conservative design absolutism is arguably what’s made it so successful. But, you know, what if? There’s a lot to like in this wishful iOS redesign video, no matter what Apple does with iOS 6.
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How To Fix Phone Calls
It’s time for a unified communications app. Everyone’s close, but nobody’s done it yet. Here’s how smartphones should — and will — work.
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If iOS Worked Like Windows
Quasar is a mod that changes the defining trait of iOS, letting you see and use multiple apps at once. This feels… dirty? And a little amazing.
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Instagram For Android: There Goes The Neighborhood
iPhone users’ disgust for Instagram on Android is kind of hilarious — until it raises uncomfortable issues about class and technology.
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Die Apps, Die
All I want to do is kill a bunch of apps I never use off of my phone. But Apple won’t let me.
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Apps Deserve Better Fonts
Super sharp screens need better fonts, and app developers are taking notice. “Working with apps is part of our business now,” says a type designer.
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Someone Finally Made A Better iPhone Mail App
The iPhone mail app hasn’t gotten better since 2007. Sparrow feels like it’s from the future, or at least the now.
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What Your iPhone Would Have Looked Like In The 80s
If the “iOS ‘86” actually existed two decades ago I guarantee that I would have become one of the “indoor kids.” If only. (via links.laughingsquid.com)
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The iPhone’s New Killer Feature
iOS’s rumored assistant feature looks amazing. This demo video has me salivating. (via macrumors.com) Watch Video ›
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Steve Jobs Unveils iCloud At Apple Conference
The next big innovation from Apple will allow you to store your iTunes library in a cloud, making it accessible from anywhere on any Apple device. New operating systems Lion and iOS 5 were also announced. View List ›
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White iPhone 4
A new way to give Apple your money. The White iPhone debuts on April 28th in all Apple, AT&T and Verizon stores — in all respects, it’s the same as the current iPhone, only a different color. View List ›
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Traitorware: When Your Devices Are Used Against You on blogs.computerworld.com ›
To discourage users from jailbreaking their iPhones (which is legal now, btw), Apple recently filed a patent for spyware that would detect unlocked phones and enable them to remotely lock out unauthorized iOS users. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has lashed out at Apple’s patent application, coining a new term “traitorware” for software that goes beyond spyware to activate your devices on the sly and use them against you.
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Tests show Android 2.2’s Javascript engine runs rings around the iPhone on androidcentral.com ›
Google made a pretty big splash at its Google IO conference when it said the browser on Android 2.2 is the world’s fastest. And Ars Technica has done some legwork that backs up that claim. In the chart above, you can clearly see Froyo on the Nexus One beats the radio signal out of iOS on the iPhone
