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Amazon Introduces Game Downloads Store with 30-minute playable demos – like Apple should have

Amazon has launched its new Game Downloads Store, which gives users the ability to download over 600 game titles priced at $9.99 or less. While not quite a threat to the iPhone app store ( the service is currently PC-only and aimed at the desktop market) it does have a nice feature that I wish Apple had adopted for the iPhone – namely, the ability for customers to download... Read More

Apple releases iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 with tons of new features!

HAHAHAHA… OK, here’s what it really does.. This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following: – Improved general stability of Safari – Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll Well thank GOD! I knew that when Palm announced their new touch screen Pre that the healthy competition would... Read More

Apple slowly warming to the idea of iPhone porn

It was just last month that Apple banned the 3D breast jiggling app iBoobs (potentially the greatest iPhone app of all time) from the iTunes app store, sighting its offensiveness (presumably to women) as the reason for the rejection. But what a difference a month makes! Check out these two new apps that just hit the iTunes store today. First up is iFloaty, a tribute to those... Read More

iQuief: Rethinking Apple’s App Store censorship policy

Hmm… remind me again why we wanted Apple to drop its ban on gross or offensive iTunes apps? I don’t remember hearing anyone mention they wanted to have a queefing app, but maybe I was too busy hoping for porn to notice. Anyway, the good news is that (in what will surely be a death blow to RIM) we now have iQuief to hold over BlackBerry users! “Bored with all those... Read More

Well, the good news is, now Apple has 6 months to build a sex robot!

My fellow Apple stockholders and I have a saying – “This sucks“. The saying was first popularized on September 8th of last year, and then subsequently RE-popularized on September 17th and 29th – and then finally put on Tee shirts on October 7th. It stems from the seemingly unstoppable plunge in Apple’s stock price in recent months. Even Phil... Read More

Wow, that was quick

I won’t say this isn’t homophobic, and I won’t say this isn’t racist, but I also won’t say I didn’t laugh once or twice. And man, talk about a fast turn around! Surprisingly I find the singing and acting quality to be about the same as the original. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Kevin for the link!  Read More

Another milestone reached – over 50 quality iPhone apps now on the iTunes store

Apple today announced that yet another iTunes milestone has been crossed – according to the company, over 50 iPhone applications are now available on iTunes which are considered to be “worth installing”. In related news, Apple also announced that the iTunes store this morning now contains over 15,000 applications in total. The 51st quality app, Goldfish Clock... Read More

C’Mon Apple, really? (Part 2)

So, let’s go around the room and take a poll. How many of you think the company IndiaINC, LLC was hired by Disney to write the story of “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 1.0” for the iPhone? Anyone? I’m still not sure why the approval process for apps takes so long. Obviously no one is actually LOOKING at them…  Read More

Macworld 2009 Keynote highlghts

In case you blinked.  Read More

A prime example of why Apple needs to overhaul the App store – and the solution

There has been much complaining on the interweb of late about the amount of useless/worse than useless apps cluttering up the iTunes app store, with some folks even calling for Apple to overhaul the approval system. Now, obviously an app that may appear useless to one person might be deemed critical by another, so it would be nearly impossible for Apple to make judgment calls on... Read More