The Apple Store is down right now, and that usually means one of two things; maintenance, or a new product launch.
Seeing as today is March 2, we're going with answer number 2 -- new product launch. It's been confirmed by Apple that their scheduled media event for today will revolve around the new iPad 2.
Apple products; there's something to be said about the mystique of owning a new Apple product. The "Apple smell" is one of the first things that come to mind, along with the minimalistic packaging, and crisp design lines.
For reasons such as these, it's disheartening to see Apple taking on an "Apple is for everyone" outlook, as the company looks to capitalize even more so on their recent dominance.
True enough, Apple is already past the point of ubiquity. I know plenty of people that struggle to pay their light bills, but still manage to keep up with their AT&T payments each month.
Even so, Apple's new public outlook is disappointing to me...
Microsoft has pointed the finger and claimed that it's unfair for Apple to trademark the phrase "App Store." Microsoft claims that the term is too generic, and that other companies should be able to use the phrase for their own mobile marketplaces.
Apple has had enough of Microsoft's wining, and has retaliated by calling out the generic nature of the term "Windows." Bet you didn't see that coming, Microsoft.
Apple will be holding an iPad-centric event tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center in San Fransisco, California. Honestly, that's all anyone knows at this point.
In the calm before the storm, speculation based on rumors based on leaks are all there is to go on. There's a good chance that Apple will address other products like MobileMe.
General consensus is that we'll also see a preview of iOS 5.0. An iOS 5 tease wouldn't be a stretch, especially with the probable release of the iPhone 5 this June.
Until today, one of the most compelling reasons to switch to Verizon for the iPhone was that big red still offered unlimited data plans, whereas AT&T had long been on a tiered pricing model. It seems the gap between the 2 carriers is getting a bit smaller as according to Verizon CFO himself, Verizon is going to stop offering unlimited data plans to its customer as soon as this summer.
A few weeks ago, we reported about Verizon's plans to throttle data speed and start compressing images and videos in order to allow available network capacity to benefit the greatest number of users...
In case you didn't know, MyGreatFest is a new convention taking place later this year. MyGreatFest is not any normal gathering; it is the world's first iDevice and jailbreak convention.
We've already given you several details about MyGreatFest. The first event will be held this September in London, U.K. The team behind MyGreatFest plans on holding more conferences in the U.S. after the first event takes off.
We here at iDB are proud to announce that we are an official sponsor of MyGreatFest, and we will be bringing you more coverage of the convention as the date approaches.
DropBox is a great service, but its App Store App is quite limited from the perspective of a jailbreaker.
That's because with the App Store version of DropBox, you're obviously not allowed to transfer files to and fro within iOS' native file system.
That's where FullDrop steps in and aptly fulfills this role. Simply put, FullDrop is the right DropBox client for jailbreakers...
Quite the humorous story making its rounds this morning; apparently Steve Jobs was denied knighthood by the UK government for refusing to accept a prior speaking engagement.
The speaking engagement was at the annual conference for the Labour Party, a political party in the UK.
Although all of this went down a few years ago, some of the details are just now making their way to the airwaves...
AirPrint -- a great concept -- not so great in execution. That's because Apple only provides AirPrint support to a small percentage of the world's printers.
Thanks to Intelliborn, the creators behind the premium apps MyWi, My3G, and others; that's all about to change.
That's because TruPrint promises to add support to the hundreds of printers that Apple has unapologetically neglected...
You have to give it to Gameloft and their "inspired" titles. They keep churning out unoriginal games and I'm quite guilty as I have bought and reviewed a couple as well… for example, Zombie Infection aka Resident Evil, N.O.V.A. 2 aka Halo, and now Starfront: Collision [iTunes link] aka Starcraft.
People at Gameloft must be seriously lacking in the creativity department but with Starfront they caught Blizzard snoozing and beat them to the punch by providing a great sci-fi RTS game for the iPhone...