Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
The iMore show’s Sunday edition returns tonight with yours truly and special guest, Clayton Morris, co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, and technology expert on Fox News Channel. We’ll be talking a little about last week’s Nokia and Amazon announcem…
Apple is finishing getting all the banners in place at Yerba Buena for the September 12 event where we’ll likely see the iPhone 5 and new iPods. At first the Yerba Buena banners just looked like streams of color but an eagle eyed MacRumors reader noti…
George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones returns to HBO tonight, kicking off season 2 in what will no doubt be sex filled, blood soaked, rip-roaring style. Winter is still coming (something those of us in Canada understand all too well — the wall looks like our driveways in January!), politics is still being played, armies are marching, and… there be dragons. While the new season is exclusive to HBO (or similar channels internationally), you can still catch up on the first season, and enjoy all the books, on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad right now.
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It’s April Fool’s so our inbox is flooding with pranks both delightful and disturbing. There aren’t many that really pertain to iPhones or iPads. We mentioned Google’s 8-bit Maps and Gmail Tap earlier, but here are a few more that show some effort, creativity, charm, or humor.
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David Barnard of App Cubby, Seth Clifford of Nickelfish, Marc Edwards of Bjango, Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory, and Rene Ritchie of iMore discuss designing and updating for Retina and HiDPI displays: preparation, process, tools, formats, distribution, and the future of resolution. This is an Iterate round-table!
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This is the Google I love. For April Fool’s day, Google announced they were porting their Maps service to… the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Not to be outdone, the Gmail team also announced support for morse code with Gmail Tap.
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Under the traditional book-selling model, retailers like B&N, Amazon, and others could get 50{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} or more of the revenue from the sale of a book. Under Apple’s “agency model”, they get 30{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b}. The traditional model is retailer-centric. Apple’s model is publisher-centric. This upsets the US Justice Department. Under the old model, the retailer set the price and so could sell the book at any price they wanted, even at a loss. Under Apple’s model, the publisher sets the price, so there’s no retailer discount.
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Google continues to enjoy a unique position in the mobile space — they make money off of pretty much every platform. If you use their own, freely licensed Android platform, they earn revenue off of advertising. If you use anyone else’s platform, including Apple’s iOS on the iPhone or iPad, Google still earns revenue off of advertising.
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