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Today on the show:
- Sky-high spam
- YouTube announces call to action overlays
- Joost is no longer
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Posted in Daily Bit, Podcast
News of the iPhone having sold one million units during its opening weekend has been widely distributed all over the web. This is an interesting number for more than one reason. First, selling one million units at $199 and $299 a piece during the current economic climate is remarkable. How so? Let’s compare this number to the sales of the original iPhone in the summer of 2007. The first iPhone sold anywhere between 250,000 and 700,000 units during its opening weekend. Since this range is quite “fat,” let’s settle in the middle and assume that the actual number was 500,000 units. Note that this was at a time when multibillion dollar banks were not failing, the world’s largest automobile manufacturer hasn’t gone under, and the Dow Jones Industrial average was trading at two times the rate as it is today. Read more »
Posted in Apple, Numbers, Palm, iPhone
Now that at least one iPhone model (the 3G S) does video recording at a decent clip, we have two things to look forward to:
Okay, maybe it’s not really that long of a wait, but as I’m sitting here, typing this post, ready to walk out the door for by birthday trip with Lizette Gagné to Disney World, my iPhone has been syncing for the last half hour. And I’m not kidding – it’s been exactly 28 minutes, 40 seconds since iTunes let me know that it’s backing up my iPhone. And the bar still has a quarter of the way to go before it’s done!
Look, don’t get me wrong, I love my 3G S. One of my favorite features is its ability to capture video. I’m just asking for a little button in iTunes that would give me the option to bypass recorded video during the iPhone backup process to iTunes. This way, I can sync up my music, unplug, and get out the door – iPhone in hand. Can we give Apple a heads-up on this for the next update to iTunes?
Posted in Apple, Feedback, Fix me!, User experience, iPhone, iTunes
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Today on the show:
- Michael Jackson’s passing crashes the interwebs. Series of tubes broken!
- Bing vs. Google
- Netbooks vs. low-end notebooks. Plus Intel’s new chip
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It looks like Sony has finally realized that other mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch are beating its PSP at its own game (forgive the pun). The Japanese electronics giant has hinted that it might open its PSP Go to third party applications other than games. The PSP Go is the latest addition to the PSP family, the successor to the PSP 3000.
In an interview with CNET, Sony’s Al De Leon said that while PSP content “will mostly be games, there’s an opportunity to look at non-gaming applications.” Well, Sony, it’s about time! The PSP is already an excellent device and the Go form factor – with its slide out gamepad – takes that to the next level. It’s never really been clear to me why Sony hasn’t given developers the ability to develop and publish non-gaming apps to the PSP. Perhaps it’s indicative of the company as a whole, you know – missing the iPod opportunity, missing the mark on the PS3, and having a very steel-fisted approach to any kind of modifications (read: hacks) to its devices.
What do you think?
Posted in Apps, PSP, Sony
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Today on the show:
- iPhone and the long-tail effect of its apps
- iPhone 3G S manufacturing break down.
- PlayStation 1 and GameBoy Advance emulation for iPhone 3G S
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Today on the show:
- iPhone 3G S launch. Activation hiccups here, there, everywhere? Here’s $30.
- Steve Jobs quoted in Apple’s “we sold 1 million” Press Release. It’s a strategy!
- Ben finds a company selling free software… for a fee. And it’s not even theirs!
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While we can’t (yet) run Cydia on our shiny new iPhone 3G S (no jailbreak has been announced as of this writing), it’s good to see all the extra power of the device put to good use. Some enterprising hackers have ported PlayStation 1 and GameBoy Advance emulators to the latest iPhone. The supercharged hardware in the 3G S is capable of running either of these at 150 – 225fps with absolutely zero frame-skipping.
I remember just a few years ago that the GameBoy Advance was all the rage in the mobile gaming world. Needless to say, this is very impressive and we here at TNR (especially Ben and Marcell) can’t wait to get our hands on these emulators when the jailbreak arrives. In the mean time, you can catch us playing good ol’ Crash Bandicoot Nitro Cart 3d, all while saving the world.
Posted in iPhone
Last week, newly-appointed Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz sat down with WSJ’s Kara Swisher at All Things D to discuss all things Yahoo! The interview sheds some light on where Yahoo! is going (video snacks), dispels the notion that the company is completely broken, and provides some good comedic value. For the true Yahoo! nut, the Peanut Butter Manifesto is also discussed!
What do you think of the interview, Carol, and the direction in which Yahoo! seems to be heading in?
Posted in Carol Bartz, Companies, People, Yahoo!
In a press release that is sure to surprise many, Apple released sales numbers for the first weekend of iPhone 3G S sales: 1 million units sold in a period of three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). The surprise isn’t in the sales figures – it was widely expected that the updated iPhone would be a big hit – but rather with Steve Jobs being quoted in the actual press release. This marks the first time Jobs’ name has officially come into the spotlight since the iconic CEO took a medical leave of absence in January of 2009. But why would Apple quote Jobs in a press release if the CEO has not returned from his medical leave? Hit the Read More button for the full TNR analysis. Read more »
Posted in Apple, Business, Decisions, PR, People, Steve Jobs, iPhone