I appologize for the infrequent posts this week. I was traveling quite a bit and didn't have much time to post. Indeed, I actually wrote my first post this week on my iPhone while I was on a plane from Atlanta to Miami. It was nice that the iPhone gave me the power to do that, but frankly for that many words, it would have been much easier if I had been carrying a Bluetooth keyboard. I'll have to think about getting one. Anyway, here are the iPhone stories from the past week that I wanted to share today:
- Horace Dediu followed up on Apple's latest quarterly earnings report by noting that 60% of Apple's sales are from products that did not even exist three years ago. Wow.
- Earlier this week, I noted that Steve Jobs disputes the notion that Android is open and the iPhone is closed. It sounds as if Jobs was directly responding to this New York Times article by Miguel Helft.
- Katherine Levy of MediaWeek notes that there is a new iPhone magazine about to launch in the UK called Tap!
- I've previously mentioned the great Workdays app by attorney Dan Friedlander which lets you easily calculate dates. The app is only a buck, but if even that is too rich for your blood, there is now a free ad-supported version. The iAd that appears at the bottom of the screen takes up one of the three areas to display sequential date calculations, so in the free version you only get two such spaces whereas the paid version gives you three, but sequential date calculations is an advanced feature that you may not use very often anyway. Click here for Workdays ($0.99):
. Click here for Workdays Free (free): - If you practice governmental relations in Louisiana, check out the free Louisiana Legislative Guide web app by going to this address on your iPhone: www.mobilelgs.com. In a few months, a 2011 edition will be available for purchase as an iPhone app. (Thanks to California commercial litigator Greg Charles, who used to practice law in Louisiana, for the link.)
- I recently wrote about how much I love the iPhone game Angry Birds. This week, the developer released a special Halloween edition of the game for the iPhone and the iPad. You can read this Macworld article by David Dahlquist to get more info, but let's face it, all that you need to know is that it is more Angry Birds fun. If you like the standard version of the game, this is definitely worth getting. I immediately bought it and have been having fun blowing up pigs and pumpkins. Click here for Angry Birds Halloween [for iPhone] ($0.99): . Click here for Angry Birds Halloween HD [for iPad] ($1.99):
- And finally, what happens when four guys from Brooklyn get on a subway with their iPhones? If the four guys are the band Atomic Tom, you get this performance. Alan of Art of the iPhone has all of the details on the performance, which has already been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube.
