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POPSiPhone 3GS vs. Palm Pre BillShrink.com CEO Peter Pham explains why someone would choose the iPhone over the Palm, and vice versa. His company helps users decide on the best phone to meet their needs across all networks
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POPSOutsiders Serve Up iPhone Nanos Outsiders meaning firms with absolutely no connection to Apple. Ubergizmo spotted this clamshell, iPod-like design (above) from China's HiPhone. Other knockoffs (like the second example, from Thailand) are just scaled-down versions of the original iPhone. Apple will likely update the iPhone line in June.
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POPSNearly One Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded Apple has placed a counter on its site to mark its impending one billionth app served. The giveaways (free MacBook Pro, etc.) are no doubt helping goose numbers, but Apple's been doing pretty well without them--remember, the App Store only launched 9 months ago. It's mesmerizing to watch the counter flip...click through to see.
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POPSTolstoy+Twitter Multimedia books on the way. Hope they're more fun than choose-your-own-adventure novels.
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POPSReasons Not To Make An IPhone Application iPhone apps aren't a sure thing, Ad Age cautions marketers. That said, as CTIA--the big wireless trade show--kicks off this week, there's sure to be a lot of news surrounding new iPhone apps.
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POPSSoftware in Plain English Good primer for the uninitiated, and a good explanation for we geeks who might need to explain things a little bit better next time.
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POPSiPhone as Medical Assistant Check out this columnist's interesting take on the medical device applications that were introduced at last week's Apple announcement. Do you use your iPhone or PDA for health and wellness purposes?
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POPSApple building a Kindle clone? I hope if this is true Amazon and Apple find some way to co-exist -- it would be terrible to have some publishers work with Apple and some with Amazon. Both stores should have the same books, in the same format -- let the companies compete on the hardware front.
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POPSApple killing Micro-USB standard? Apple makes lots of money selling charger cords, converters and docks, so they're resistant to adopting Micro-USB. But this could come back to bite them; come 2012, if the iPhone is the only device with a proprietary charger, don't you think that's going to turn off consumers?
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POPSApple rejects South Park application The App Store is Apple's outlet, and they can refuse to sell whatever they want. But the company really should come up with a more consistent set of standards, and apply them to all its different products.
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POPSLagerfeld Says The Internet Makes Luxury Look Cheap Chanel designer--and fashion superstar--Karl Lagerfeld says that the internet does not convey "the unique feel and sophistication of luxury materials," and is aiming to ensure a law that allows brands to control who sells their goods on the internet stays in place after 2009. Here's our story about how luxury lovers shop online: http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/08/shopping-online-spending-forbeslife-cx_ls_1008style.html
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POPSKindle iPhone App Coming This sort of app might help sell kindles, too -- i'd be more likely to want one if i could trade books back and forth between devices.
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POPSDoors Open For Flash On The iPhone? Enough of the good stuff on the web is flash based to make missing support one of the big problems with Apple's iPhone. But don't get too excited --this is still a long way from happening.
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POPSiTunes Eats Amazon's Lunch Even though Amazon's mp3 store isn't making much money, don't expect it to fail or go away -- record labels want viable online retail alternatives to iTunes, so Steve Jobs can't tell them what to do.
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POPSSee 10,000 iPhone Apps All At Once OK, this is kind of a gimmick. But click through the second link above and you'll see a mind-bending mosaic of icons representing close to 10,000 iPhone apps. As some astute blogs have reported, Apple's App Store doesn't currently contain 10k apps--more like 9,700. The 10k figure is the number that have debuted.
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POPSNYT Reviewer Hates Touch-Screen Blackberry Apple does best when it makes competitors go out of their way to ape it's own unusual take on things, and the NYT's Pogue nails RIM for it in his review of RIM's touch-screen BlackBerry. Here's link to a quick summary of Pogue's long indictment of the new gadget.
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POPSLCD Makers Admit To Price Fixing The price fixing occurred prior to the end of 2006 -- while it's impossible to say if anything similar is still happening, the price of LCD screens has fallen significantly since then.
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POPS6.9 Million iPhones Sold Last Quarter ...along with nearly 200 million App Store applications. The figures mean Apple has already met its goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. AT&T shares also rose on the news. T reports its third quarter earnings tomorrow.
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POPSQuarter Of All Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone There are lots of teens who hold down part time jobs, and they don't have to deal with the same sort of economic woes as their parents. So the kid market may provide Apple with a little bit of recession-proofing.
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