The iPhone’s AppStore may have seen over 1.5 billion downloads in the past year, thanks to a healthy catalog of over 65,000 iPhone apps. But, many of those iPhone applications have proven to be largely useless. Apple apparently knows this, and has taken action. The iPhone maker has pulled 943 iPhone apps from notorious iPhone…
Netflix bringing ‘Watch Instantly’ streaming movies to iPhone?
The iPhone’s large 3.5-inch display already makes it a perfect fit for mobile movie watchers. According to this latest rumor, the iPhone is about be become a movie-lover’s dream. There are whispers of Netflix preparing to bring their “Watch Instantly” streaming movie service to the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s unclear how Netflix plans to…
Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
This press release just hit the wire: CUPERTINO, California, August 3, 2009: Apple today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and…
My theory on the Apple Tablet: It doesn’t exist, will never exist, and it is probably a 10 inch laptop
IntoMobile readers may be curious to know as to why I’m writing about a product that doesn’t fit inside your pocket. I’m doing this out of sheer frustration. Frustration by the media who think that there is a 10 inch tablet device coming out from Apple, and are so sure of this fabricated fact that…
FCC launches investigation into Apple’s banishment of Google Voice iPhone app
Apple’s move to strip third-party Google Voice iPhone apps from the AppStore drew the ire of iPhone users everywhere. To make matters worse, Apple’s secretive ways have shrouded mystery over why Google Voice apps like GV Mobile were recently pulled from the AppStore. Did AT&T ask Apple to ban Google Voice apps in order to…
China Unicom iPhone spotted!
Apple’s deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone to the lucrative Chinese market is so close we can smell it. Last we heard, Apple and China Unicom still had some kinks to iron out before announcing their iPhone partnership. The China Unicom iPhone even popped up on the carrier’s webpage recently. Today, we’re treated…
Apple patches iPhone SMS text bug with iPhone OS 3.0.1 update
Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1 update that patches the iPhone SMS text message bug we reported on previously. And all it took to motivate Apple to issue the patch was for a couple security researchers to publicly announce the iPhone’s SMS bug. Find the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update in iTunes. Just connect your iPhone…
Apple support docs blame jailbreak for Visual Voicemail failure
The iPhone Visual Voicemail problems are apparently the fault of iPhone customers. Apple has posted a support document that blames the Visual Voicemail bugs on the iPhone jailbreak. Apple is calling the jailbreak an “unauthorized modification to the iPhone OS” (which it most definitely is), but says that jailbroken iPhones will see disruption of services:…
Apple releases MobileMe iDisk iPhone app for all your file-sharing needs
If you’re a MobileMe users, and you’ve got an iPhone, Apple’s got a little present for you. The iPhone-maker has just released the MobileMe iDisk iPhone application for free on the AppStore. MobileMe iDisk for iPhone allows MobileMe subscribers to view and share files stored in the MobileMe “cloud.” If you have MobileMe, you have…
Apple launches iPhone 3GI, only visible to fanboys
Think your iPhone 3GS is the greatest thing to happen to smartphones since the touchscreen? Well, think again. According to The Onion, Apple has just launched the iPhone 3GI. The iPhone 3GI packs significant hardware and software improvements, a more powerful processor and a touchscreen display that throws out the richest colors and highest resolution…