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Welcome to the Winter Carnival! It certainly seems that way, writing from snow-bound Britain. Thanks to all the contributors, and straight on to their posts. Everyone must:
BOW DOWN TO THE GOOGLE
Andrew Grill has an excellent post on Google’s Latitude and its competitors. He points out that, unlike Palringo, Latitude is missing presence. But for how long?
Jamie Wells wonders if the welcome is wearing a little thin on one of our new overlord’s offshoots, in “What’s This… Android on Shaky Ground?“. Just what is Google’s attitude to fragmentation and security on its mobile platform?
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Review: iPingPong 3D
Somewhere between the antiquated simplicity of Pong (the original 2D video game) and the reality of fast and furious world class table tennis, there’s a happy middle ground. Represented for most of us by a cheery game of ping pong on the family dining table. Or here in iPingpong 3D, which has much the same feel. It’s slickly programmed and has a fabulously smooth interface but somehow it never really rises to world class, either as a table tennis game or as an iPhone application.
iPingPong 3D
Read on for the full review…
The false panic over Crackulous
Yesterday Hackulo.us released Crackulous, which strips the DRM protection from iPhone applications. This allows any application bought from the App Store to run on any other iPhone. Writing about this, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has gone with “Crackulous is released, chaos imminent”. I don’t buy that.
Carnival of the Mobilists 159
You lucky people – not one, but two posts from Steve have made it into the Carnival this week. The second looks at mobile phone photography – and I have to admit it made me wince a bit. The quality of the photos from the Samsung INNOV8 is superb, and is a huge contrast to the 2MP non-flash effort on the iPhone. When the new revision of the iPhone comes out (around June, probably), I really hope that Apple bump the camera quality and software.
Read this week’s Carnival over at Mobile Broadband Blog. It’s not quite as jam-packed as in the past couple of weeks, but there are some excellent articles. My favourite was from James Parton (Head of O2 Litmus), writing on wipJam blog. He has an interesting comment on music and application stores:
Research has shown that over 90% of digital music catalogues are never downloaded. It’s an extreme example of Prato’s law. Are App stores already following the same path?
Read the full post for his surprising conclusion on the most important API of 2009.
Next week, stay tuned to All About iPhone for your Carnival fix!