Introducing our new weekly segment here at RazorianFly. Everything You Probably Missed.
This segment will be published every Sunday afternoon, and has been designed to sum up the past week in both new App Store releases and the latest Apple related news from the past 7 days. Enjoy!
Apart from some unforeseen issues with our site database which stopped the publishing party for us completely on June 3rd, this week has been pretty packed as far as rumors and leaks go on the next-generation iPhone.
Checkout everything you probably missed, below!
On the App Store
May 31: ShareMyPlaylist Gets Approved: Discover New Music On iPhone From Over 20,000 Playlists! – [Update: Now Available!] – Today we got the heads up from @KieronDonoghue, founder of @ShareMyPlaylist, that the site’s official client for both iPhone and iPod touch had just been approved by Apple.
June 1: Splinter Cell Conviction – Now Available for iPhone (and iPod touch) – After the clever people over at @SlideToPlay “decrypted” a teaser page setup by game publisher @Gameloft, to reveal the game’s release date slowly, the site soon found the release date to be set for May 24th. Released last Thursday, May 27th, Splinter Cell Conviction is the first in the highly anticipated series to hit the iPhone OS platform.
June 2: Prince of Persia Warrior Within, Hitting iPhone June 3rd! – [PREVIEW] – After the massive hit Splinter Cell Conviction being released by @Gameloft last week, they strive to continue the trend this week. Another huge franchise, Prince of Persia, is receiving it’s first modern version of the game for the App Store. Last week @Ubisoft released Prince of Persia Retro and on June 3rd Gameloft will release Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.
June 4: Boxcar Version 3.0 Now Available – Adds Universal Support for iPad, All Services Go FREE – If you’re not yet familiar with Boxcar, the app is a push notifications service designed to give you the ability to keep track of activities happening on your @Twitter and @Facebook accounts, even allowing you to setup options to alert you of new posts on your favourite sites and more recently Growl notifications on your Mac …
June 4: US Television Network MTV Launches iPad News App! – The U.S. music television network @MTV has today released a news app exclusively for the iPad.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/06/04/us-television-network-mtv-launches-ipad-news-app/
June 4: Lima Sky Updates Million-Dollar App Sensation, Doodle Jump Gets Its Soccer On! – After announcing they had surpassed a staggering 3 Million in sales in March of this year, @LimaSky have today announced a new update to their highly successful App Store title, Doodle Jump.
In The News
May 31: Apple Announces It Has Sold 2,000,000 iPads – [PRESS RELEASE] – Well it’s official. Apple has today announced the company has shifted a whopping 2M iPad units in the first few weeks of availability.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/05/31/apple-announces-it-has-sold-2000000-ipads-press-release/
May 31: iPhone HD: 32GB $199, 64GB $299. End Of June Release? – [RUMOR] – With WWDC a mere 7 days away, a prominent industry analyst on Friday came out of the woodwork with his own educated guesses, as to what the price tag of Apple’s 4th generation iPhone will be.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/05/31/iphone-hd-32gb-199-64gb-299-end-of-june-release-rumor/
May 31: Kevin Rose Confirms Existence of Next-Generation iPhone, Claims to Already Own One! – If you had any doubt Apple was going to announce the next-generation iPhone at their WWDC conference next week, (and God knows why you would), @Digg founder and Apple affectionado @KevinRose has reportedly confirmed not only that the device exists, but that he actually already owns the unreleased device.
June 1: Skype: We’ve Changed Our Minds. No Charge for Calling Over 3G, Until 2011! – Over the weekend we gave you the heads up on Skype version 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. To crowds of people cheering, the update finally added the ability to make phone calls over 3G, freely. Well, free until August anyway. But today, Skype has just announced its changed its mind as far as charging users goes.
June 1: CONFIRMED: Ability to Change Size of System Fonts Coming In iPhone OS 4.0 – [Updated] – In reply to an e-mail sent from UK developer Mark Ford to Jobs’ personal e-mail address this morning, the Apple CEO confirmed that the company’s upcoming mobile operating system iPhone OS 4.0 would give users the ability to change the size of system fonts.
June 1: Adobe Announces Its New iPad-Targeted Publishing Platform – Integrating the company’s InDesign CS5 for the purpose of assisting print publishers with converting their content to iPad-compatible formats, @Adobe has today announced the launch of their own publishing platform.
June 2: New Photos Of White Next-Generation iPhone Surface! – With WWDC kicking off next week, new photos have surfaced today which suggest Apple may be gearing to introduce a ‘White’ option to its iPhone product line.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/06/02/new-photos-of-white-next-generation-iphone-surface/
June 3: Google Now Showing App Store Listings In Mobile Search Results – Yesterday, search giant @Google announced a new feature of its search results which sees the company direct its current search algorithms to pull information from Apple’s App Store.
June 3: MobileMe Going Free, Previous Customer Statuses Change to ‘Full Member’ – With WWDC so close we can almost touch it, it seems Apple has started to take its previously premium syncing service MobileMe FREE, for all users.
June 3: Tapbots Post First Details On ‘Secretive’ iPad Project – @Tapbots, developers of the conversion app ConvertBot, weight tracking app WeightBot, and more recently the clippings inbox PasteBot, have today announced the first information on a new iPad application they are working on.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/06/03/tapbots-post-first-info-on-secretive-ipad-project/
June 4: Apple: HTML5 is Mature Enough for Wide Adoption – With the canyon between Apple and Adobe ever-widening over the recent decision from Jobs to completely disallow the company’s Flash technology on Apple’s iPhone OS-based devices, Apple has today launched a new section on Apple.com entitled ‘HTML 5 and Web Standards‘.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/06/04/apple-html5-is-mature-enough-for-wide-adoption/
June 4: Next-Gen iPhone Dropping June 18th? – [RUMOR] – … and the rumors just keep coming! Citing nothing more than they have received confirmation from multiple AT&T store representatives that sales quotas for the month of June are ridiculously high, @BoyGeniusReport is today taking a stab at the launch date of the next-gen iPhone.
Read More: https://www.arronhirst.com/blog/2010/06/04/next-gen-iphone-dropping-june-18th-rumor/
June 4: It’s Official: Gawker Media’s Gizmodo Denied Press Pass to WWDC10 – Well it probably came to most as no surprise due to recent events, but today @Gizmodo announced it had been denied both press privileges and therefore access to this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
June 5: T-Mobile Staff Receive Orders to Be In Work On June 19th? Next-Gen iPhone Launching? – [RUMOR] – We’re going to place this is in the take with a pinch of salt file for now, but this morning we were tipped off by Patrick (@TennisMan120), who claims to have insider information which could relate to the upcoming launch of the next-generation iPhone set to be announced by Apple this coming Monday.
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