The iPhone turned 4 this week. And in that short amount of time, Apple’s smartphone has made a huge impact on the world as we know it. In fact, the iPhone is probably the most influential consumer electronics product ever made.
Here are the 12 ways iPhone has changed the world in only four years.
It’s been a great week for iOS gamers, with fantastic new releases from Gameloft, Chillingo, Sega and Telltale Games. Picking our favorites has been some task.
Here’s this week’s roundup — featuring the return of Sonic in a brand new arcade kart racer, an iPad platformer that uses your iPhone as a controller, and the final episode of Monkey Island.
It’s a total embarrassment, but less than a year after Microsoft finally “caught up” with Apple’s three year lead and released a modern, multitouch smartphone operating system in Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is having to do it again, this time having been caught with their pants down by the iPad.
Their solution? Windows 8, the next version of their desktop operating system, carefully optimized to support power-sipping ARM processors and skinned with a special, tablet-specific operating system. Now a report suggests that Microsoft will rush Windows 8 to market to make sure that the iPad 3 doesn’t eat Microsoft’s tablet lunch before they’ve even sat down to the table.
This week’s roundup of must-have applications features one of the most unique video apps we’ve ever seen for the iPhone, a fantastic new note-taking app from tablet-maker Wacom, and a simplistic calendar app that aims to bring old-school desktop calendars to your iPhone.
Check out all of this and more below!
The iPad is awesome. I love my iPad 2. I think it’s the single greatest mobile device ever sold. There’s just one problem: The iPad is a dandy fancy boy.
The iPad is for indoor use only, for the most part. Some of us want to go outside and take our iPads with us.
Apple needs to give its millions of users the option to fully integrate the iPad into their lives by making it safe for outdoor use.
Yesterday, we published extracts from a press release where PhantomAlert, an app that helps drivers avoid all kinds of potential tickets, boasted that its DUI checkpoints were staying put and that it had “defied” the senators who convinced Apple to ban DUI info.
CEO Joe Scott wrote to us, essentially retracting the whole release, also stating for the record that the company does not condone or encourage drinking and driving.
We again highlight a deal on MacBook Pros offered by the Apple Store, including a 2.4GHz model for just $899. Next is an alarm clock and iPhone or iPad doc duo from Innova for just $20. Finally, we offer a micro Sim card for unlocked GSM iPhones or iPads.
Along the way, we also check out a portfolio for iPads with a 6-foot USB cable, plus auto-save and backup software for the Mac. As always, details on these items and more can be found on the CoM “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
The Mac has gone from that hippy-dippy device artists use to the button-down world of business with more than one-in-ten corporate computers sporting the Apple logo.
We start another week of deals with two iPod bargains and software to help archive your Mac files. First up is the iMotion Kick Portable iPod speakers from Altec Lansing. Next is a 2GB iPod shuffle for just $30. Finally, there is Entropy for the Mac, an archiving utility.
Along the way, we also check out other devices of interest to Mac fans. As usual, details on these and many other items can be found at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
Noterize, the popular note-taking app for the iPad mysteriously vanished from the App Store recently, with no indication of the reason for its disappearance. However, news that a takeover by voice technology company Nuance may be to blame, and could spell exciting things to come for voice recognition in iOS 5.
