App Store not profitable for Apple
According to MacStories.net, the App Store only contains 19% paid apps and of those apps, the average selling price is $1.49. Now that sounds pretty bad, but according to the article, apple makes $180M a year gross. Now that sounds like a lot, but Apple makes $33.7B a year gross. So not so much. Still, [...]
iPhone 4 Discoloration
In what has to be a huge downer, MacRumor is reporting some iPhone 4 discoloration issues. A number of readers in our forum have discovered that their iPhone 4s arriving today are exhibiting areas of brown or yellow discoloration on the highly-touted Retina display. Users in Apple’s own discussion forums are also beginning to notice [...]
Google Voice is Open to Everyone in the U.S.
TidBITS has reported that Google Voice is Open to Everyone in the U.S., which leads me to wonder whether Apple will ever get around to completing their review of the Google Voice app.
Reviews are claiming the iPhone 4 is seeing 35+ hours battery life!
TheNextWeb has an article about reviews of the new iPhone 4 that are claiming the battery life of the device is lasting as long as 38 hours of “heavy” usage. The claims of heavy usage included phone calls, games, Bluetooth headset usage, 3G and WiFi Internet access, etc. Considering that the phone uses the same [...]
