It wasn’t a very busy week for iPhone news, perhaps best evidenced by one of the top stories this week being whether Steve Jobs tried to take ninja throwing stars on an airplane in Japan. (Bloomberg originally said yes, but then Apple told them no.) That story did spark some amusing posts, such as this great one by John Moltz and this great one by the guys at Scoopertino. It’s hard to compete with ninja throwing stars, but here is the rest of the iPhone news of the week that might be of interest:
- Hugo Miller of Bloomberg reports that very large companies such as JPMorgan Chase are now considering the iPhone as an alternative to the Blackberry, noting that “BlackBerry loyalty may be fading among the bankers, lawyers and government workers who drove RIM’s initial success. About 42 percent of BlackBerry users say they want to stick with the brand when they buy a new phone, according to an August survey by Nielsen Co. The rate is 89 percent for iPhone owners and 71 percent for Android devices.”
- Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan of BusinessWeek wrote an interesting article on Terry Gou, the founder of Foxconn, the Chinese company that makes iPhones to Apple’s exacting standards at a rate of “137,000 iPhones a day, or about 90 a minute.”
- Marianne Schultz of AppShopper reviews LogMeIn Ignition for the iPhone and iPad. I consider it one of the most useful apps on my iPhone. Click here for LogMeIn Ignition ($29.99):
- Roman Loyola of Macworld reports that if you get the new Parallels 6 for Mac, you can also get for free Parallels Mobile, an iPhone app that acts as a remote client for the virtual Windows environment on your Mac. Frankly, this is very similar to what LogMeIn ignition does. For me, instead of a virtual Windows machine, I have LogMeIn installed on both my PC at work and my Mac at home so that I can remotely control either computer from my iPhone using the LogMeIn Ignition app.
- I was honored to be named in the 2009 ABA Journal Blawg 100, and now the ABA Journal is getting ready to select the 2010 nominees. If you want to tell the ABA Journal about the law-related websites that you read regularly, click here to nominate your favorites. It only takes a few seconds to do.
- If you want a quick way to find an iPhone app, try the new App Store Instant. Modeled on the recent update to Google, start to type the name of an app and choices pop up instantly.
- Ed Sperling of Forbes writes that the iPad is the beginning of a new trend towards mobile hardware.
- Sam Grobart of the New York Times reports on the Chase app that lets you deposit checks on your iPhone. I reviewed this app last month, and I continue to use the app all the time.
- Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times reports that you can use your iPhone as a guide at New York museums.
- Ryan Faas of Computerworld looked at the updated iPhone Configuration Utility, software used by companies to configure their employees’ iPhones.
- Chris Foresman of Ars Technia discusses the new HDR capabilities of the iPhone 4.
- And finally, if you have an extra $100 bill and don’t know what to do with it, why not make an iPhone stand? Or you can just be cheap and do the same thing with a buck.