Category: Apple

Download the Live Commentary iOS app for Eurovision

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A big thank you to The Lab at O2 for all their help in the last few weeks as they developed ESC Commentary, an IOS app to support the Eurovision Song Contest communities at ESC Insight and EscXtra. What does it do? You’ll get a live commentary from the team in the press room (and it’s not the same as our long running Alternative Commentary MP3, which you can find here). During each Eurovision show you can hit the green thumbs up button, or the red thumbs down button, to share your view on the song, and the worm will show the combined thoughts of

The story of Vlambeer and Ridiculous Fishing

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A sobering look at indie game development, with (I think) a happy ending, from Polygon. The interview is over. The story, told in pieces at least a hundred times in bars, at hamburger joints, on stages and in private circles of up-and-coming game developers, has now been told for the first time in its entirety. It is a story about the little guy getting bullied and making a stand. And winning. It is the story of Ridiculous Fishing, and how two men from the Netherlands rallied the worldwide community of independent game developers to take on the practice of game cloning

‘The Apple Way’ for public facing employees isn’t just for press

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From The San Francisco Examiner: “It was very underwhelming,” [San Francisco DA George Gascón] said about the hourlong talk with Apple’s government liaison, Michael Foulkes. “He did most of the talking. It was incredible. He would just go on and on, one subject to the next. It was hard to follow. It was almost like someone who’s been trained in the art of doing a lot of talking and saying nothing.” As an aside, this issue about kill-switches on mobile phones in the US, do American networks not have a master list of IMEI numbers that are blocked, in the

The podcast about Windows Phone (and a bit of MWC, BlackBerry, Android, iOS, Symbian, etc)

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In a longer than usual episode of the AAWP Insight (number 56), Podcast Ewan and Rafe start by talking about the UK’s 4G auction and Eurovision, before moving on to talk about the installed based numbers and the continuing importance of Windows Phone 7. Ewan has the latest news on Xbox Live titles, while Rafe’s being looking at some of Qualcomm’s technology announcements. We also preview Mobile World Congress 2013, talking about the Windows Phone related news and the general trends we expect to see emerge at the Barcelona based event.

Logic, maths, and the five inch iPhone

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Marco Arment, being logical, sane, and being one of the first to publicly make the iPhone Maxi a plausible possibility The theory is easy to understand: perform John Gruber’s Mini-predicting math backwards. The iPad Mini uses iPhone 3GS-density screens at iPad resolution. What if an iPhone Plus used Retina iPad screens with iPhone 5 resolution, keeping the rest of the design sized like an iPhone 5?