Apple’s iPhone is without a doubt a game-changer for smartphones, whether it actually sells well itself or not. Smartphones have simply been to clumsy to use to be practical for a wide audience. That all changes with the iPhone, and it doesn’t even have to sell well - nay, doesn’t even have to actually be [...]
Steve Jobs: “You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed [...]
It all started with the release of the 5.5G iPod, which was when Apple officially released games on the iTunes store. Up until that point, we were all locked in to the (rather boring) games included with the iPod. After trying some of the games for sale free at the iTunes store, I must say [...]