Straight from CEO Steve Jobs himself, Apple’s taken a very public stance on disallowing any app that features adult and inappropriate material, including anything even vaguely pornographic. Jobs said in a famously quoted an e-mail exchange that, “… we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.”
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Once upon a time, jailbreaking our iPhones allowed us to be blissfully free from the clutches of Apple and AT&T’s official regulations. We used our data plans the way we wanted to, even if that included sharing it with our laptops and iPads. (All of this is rhetorical, of course. We would never actually do such a thing.)
But now it …
Warner Bros. may be using Facebook to rent its movies, but Sony Pictures has a different idea on how to lure more eyeballs towards its wares (Don’t worry, they’re also said to be in negotiations with Facebook over rentals). The studio is launching a new app for the iPad and iPhone called “My Daily Clip” which, you guessed it, offers …
Apple’s iOS 4.3 update was supposed to be available on Friday, but it’s available today! Do you have a plan for this unforeseen event?!
If you’re in the middle of a meeting, walk out. If you’re on the phone, hang up. If you’re in the bathroom… finish what you’re doing, wash your hands and then leave. Don’t be an animal.
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Without any fanfare, Netflix quietly updated its iPad app yesterday, making it easier and more attractive to use – but removing some important information and the ability to update your DVD queue in the process. The update changes the app from what was pretty much an adaptation of the Netflix website to something more closely …
Global mobile data use almost tripled between 2009 and 2010, according to a new report from Cisco, but that’s not the most surprising detail they’re offering: Apparently, they expect mobile data use to increase by a factor of 26 by 2015 – and much of that growth will come from users who don’t even have electricity at home.
Cisco’s …
If your iPhone or iPad has been jailbroken, Apple may have decided that you don’t deserve to use their iBooks store anymore as punishment. Josh from the Social Apples website has noticed that Apple has, in his words, “deliberately crippled” his iPhone after jailbreaking:
Since using the greenpois0n jailbreak, I have been unable to open
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Mobile apps usually aim to entertain, inform or help us be productive. All in all, they usually don’t incite the Internet into political debate. But people have a lot to say about the pending iOS release of Owlchemy Labs’ instantly infamous game, Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration.
Owlchemy Labs would have to be beyond clueless to …
Americans were using their smartphones a lot more last year, with usage up an amazing 60%. But it’s only really good news for Apple and Google, as ComScore figures suggest that iOS and Android were the only mobile platforms to see any increase, with RIM, Microsoft and Palm all dropping in the last months of the year.
Google’s Android …
In the eternal struggle to win over gamers’ thumbs on the go, Nintendo’s been the uncontested champ for decades now. The only other dedicated gaming device to ever mount a worthy challenge has been Sony’s Playstation Portable. Just a week after Nintendo announced its launch plans for their new 3DS, Sony pulled away the veil of …
Well this ought to be interesting. Apple has made the pre-release code for the next version of its iOS software available for developers to tinker around with. This is the underlying software that will eventually end up on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches—called iOS 4.3.
Scores of curious developers have finished scouring the code …
‘Tis the season for cut-rate sales and for charitable sentiments, but rarely does one get the chance to combine the two in such fun ways. Six top-shelf developers have put their acclaimed iPhone games on sale for a measly $0.99, with a third of the proceeds going to the Childs’ Play charity.
Started seven years ago by internet …
