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Bring it On Mikandi, the Adult Mobile Apps Store for Android

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Eat this Apple! It’s like some anti-iPhone fanboys are screaming at us iPhone users – taunting us with the lines – “you can never get this on your iPhone, Steve fanatics.” Ouch!  But honestly, can a mobile app store such as Mikandi.com which is short of offering mobile phone pornography succeed?

Ok, I regress Mikandi is a mobile app store for for Adults or let say the matured mobile phone users. It is currently available for the Android handset and there are even plans to bring it to other mobile platform as well. Ops, don’t get your hopes to high iPhone users because I’m pretty sure, Mikandi mobile app store will never get to the iTunes, either as an app or the many applications it currently offers. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 28, 2009 @ 2:07 am

Joel Comm Appeals to Steve Jobs for iPhone App Approval

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Love him or hate him, Internet marketer Joel Comm has been bringing us fun stuff decade after decade. In 1996, he founded the company that Yahoo bought and turned into Yahoo Games. At the end of 2008, he released iFart Mobile, which spent three weeks at the top of the iPhone app charts.

That’s why Apple CEO Steve Jobs should listen to Joel when he vents his frustration over the rejection of his latest iPhone app — especially when the app store carries so many other applications with similar functionalities.

Joel’s appeal should help remind Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller that, contrary to his deluded claims, developers are not happy with the arbitrary and opaque iPhone store approval process.

Originally posted on November 27, 2009 @ 7:09 am

Apple’s Phil Schiller Says Devs Like Getting Screwed

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Phil SchillerApple founder and CEO Steve Jobs openly admits to experimenting with LSD in his youth. Apparently, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller is high on crack. According to Schiller, developers are happy with the iPhone’s app approval process.

Most are approved and some are sent back to the developer. In about 90% of those cases, Apple requests technical fixes—usually for bugs in the software or because something doesn’t work as expected, Schiller says. Developers are generally glad to have this safety net because usually Apple’s review process finds problems they actually want to fix, he says.

Oh really, Phil? So Facebook developer Joe Hewitt is happy that you’re setting “a horrible precedent for other software platforms”? So Google is happy that you lied about the rejection of the Google Voice iPhone app?

Seriously Phil, lay off the drugs. They’re frying your brain. I don’t know who’s more deluded: you or Carol Bartz.

Originally posted on November 23, 2009 @ 6:42 am

Apple Taunts Verizon with New iPhone Ads

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Apple iPhone Ad – Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.

Have you caught the two new iPhone ads shown on TV last night? Reports had it that the new iPhone ads were supposed to appear on shows such as “House”, “Dancing with the Stars”, “How I Met Your Mother” and other Daily Shows on Comedy Central.

Anyway, the ads are appended at the start and end of this post, so enjoy watching. In case you’re wondering what are those iPhone ads are all about. Rumor has it that it’s Apple’s subtle attack on Verizon Wireless which was in a mobile phone ads war with AT&T. AT&T of course is the exclusive distributor of the iPhone. So, you get the picture? [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 24, 2009 @ 5:55 am

Wired’s iTablet Demo with Digitized Magazine Content

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Wired Magazine’s parent company Conde Nast seems to be taking the rumored iTablet PC seriously. A couple of days ago, the company was convinced by All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka to share a video demo of  Wired’s iTablet PC.

The video doesn’t say much about the iTablet PC, but you can fairly observe how cool it’s going to be especially during the part where the iTablet PC’s capability to handle animated and interactive graphic was shown. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 21, 2009 @ 5:29 pm