Stanford’s free iPhone coding class passes 1 million downloads

About a month ago, Wired.com gave you a glimpse into the iPhone application programming course at Stanford University. We also noted the lectures were being videotaped and distributed free on the iTunes U educational channel. We’re delighted to see Stanford’s announcement that the video podcast has surpassed 1 million downloads — the fastest this milestone has ever been reached in the history of iTunes U, according to Stanford. Way to go, Stanford! The next army of iPhone developers salutes you.

See Also:

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• Hard Times? Not for iPhone Developers
• Texas University Hands Out Free iPods, iPhones
• Stanford Offers iPhone 101: App Developing Workshop
• Coder’s Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still on
  
• Apple Promotes All-Time Top iPhone Apps
• iPhone Developers Go From Rags to Riches

[via Wired]

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Stanford’s free iPhone coding class passes 1 million downloads

About a month ago, Wired.com gave you a glimpse into the iPhone application programming course at Stanford University. We also noted the lectures were being videotaped and distributed free on the iTunes U educational channel. We’re delighted to see Stanford’s announcement that the video podcast has surpassed 1 million downloads — the fastest this milestone has ever been reached in the history of iTunes U, according to Stanford. Way to go, Stanford! The next army of iPhone developers salutes you.

See Also:

• Apple Launches iPhone University Program
• Nine-Year-Old Prodigy Writes iPhone App
• Hard Times? Not for iPhone Developers
• Texas University Hands Out Free iPods, iPhones
• Stanford Offers iPhone 101: App Developing Workshop
• Coder’s Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still on
  
• Apple Promotes All-Time Top iPhone Apps
• iPhone Developers Go From Rags to Riches

[via Wired]

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Apple Promotes All-Time Top iPhone Apps

Apple has posted the top-20 paid and free iPhone apps that netted the most downloads since the App Store's launch in July.

The list includes games, social networking tools, everyday utilities (e.g. weather and movie listings), novelty apps and musical instruments.

A combination of luck and clever marketing enabled developers to climb to the top. Among the top free apps is Tap Tap Revenge, a rhythm game that has singlehandedly created a new distribution channel for music, enabling artists to promote their tunes and gain exposure.

Another game, iShoot, sits on the list of top paid apps. The game earned its developer Ethan Nicholas $600,000 in a single month. Recently, Nicholas told Wired.com he has surpassed the $800,000 mark. To boost sales, Nicholas developed a free version of the game — iShoot Lite — and used it to promote the paid version. The strategy worked: In January, users downloaded the free version 2.4 million times, which led 320,000 satisfied iShoot Lite players to pay for iShoot.

Continue reading @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Apple Promotes All-Time Top iPhone Apps

Apple has posted the top-20 paid and free iPhone apps that netted the most downloads since the App Store's launch in July.

The list includes games, social networking tools, everyday utilities (e.g. weather and movie listings), novelty apps and musical instruments.

A combination of luck and clever marketing enabled developers to climb to the top. Among the top free apps is Tap Tap Revenge, a rhythm game that has singlehandedly created a new distribution channel for music, enabling artists to promote their tunes and gain exposure.

Another game, iShoot, sits on the list of top paid apps. The game earned its developer Ethan Nicholas $600,000 in a single month. Recently, Nicholas told Wired.com he has surpassed the $800,000 mark. To boost sales, Nicholas developed a free version of the game — iShoot Lite — and used it to promote the paid version. The strategy worked: In January, users downloaded the free version 2.4 million times, which led 320,000 satisfied iShoot Lite players to pay for iShoot.

Continue reading @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the trouble of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

iPhone 3.0 Wish List: Accessory-Powered Apps We Want

Forget copy-and-paste. The real seed of innovation planted in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 upgrade is the OS's ability to interact with special accessories via Bluetooth and the dock connector.

Here's why you should care: There are endless possibilities for app-accessory combos — so many, in fact, that we're going out on a limb and coining a phrase to describe the field: dongleware.

Here's a good example from Apple's recent iPhone 3.0 event: an insulin meter that communicates with a diabetes application for the iPhone. Now, with an iPhone in her pocket hooked to the meter, a diabetes patient can check her glucose levels and plan out her meals and insulin injections using live data. Tell us that isn't intriguing — and that's just scratching the surface.

With the App Store burgeoning into a billion-dollar industry, and the iPod and iPhone accessory market also surpassing a billion dollars a year, you can be assured iPhone developers will leap on this opportunity to push innovation to new heights. IPhone 3.0 could open doors to significant advancements in home entertainment, the medical field and even the military.

IPhone 3.0's huge potential fired up our imaginations, dreaming up a list of accessory-powered apps we'd like to see. It's not long, as we'd like you readers to submit and vote on suggestions, too. What better way to tell developers which apps will help them strike it rich in the App Store?

Read the whole article @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

iPhone 3.0 Wish List: Accessory-Powered Apps We Want

Forget copy-and-paste. The real seed of innovation planted in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 upgrade is the OS's ability to interact with special accessories via Bluetooth and the dock connector.

Here's why you should care: There are endless possibilities for app-accessory combos — so many, in fact, that we're going out on a limb and coining a phrase to describe the field: dongleware.

Here's a good example from Apple's recent iPhone 3.0 event: an insulin meter that communicates with a diabetes application for the iPhone. Now, with an iPhone in her pocket hooked to the meter, a diabetes patient can check her glucose levels and plan out her meals and insulin injections using live data. Tell us that isn't intriguing — and that's just scratching the surface.

With the App Store burgeoning into a billion-dollar industry, and the iPod and iPhone accessory market also surpassing a billion dollars a year, you can be assured iPhone developers will leap on this opportunity to push innovation to new heights. IPhone 3.0 could open doors to significant advancements in home entertainment, the medical field and even the military.

IPhone 3.0's huge potential fired up our imaginations, dreaming up a list of accessory-powered apps we'd like to see. It's not long, as we'd like you readers to submit and vote on suggestions, too. What better way to tell developers which apps will help them strike it rich in the App Store?

Read the whole article @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Gigotron's iPhone App Pulls Great Gigs From the Sky

AUSTIN, Texas -- Music junkies are crazy about their iPhones, and for good reason. Not only is it a phone and an iPod all in one, but several iPhone apps make it easy to find music clubs, hook up with friends at concerts and change plans on the fly.

One such app is Gigotron, a free iPhone download that lets music lovers search for nearby shows in their area. Concert listings large and small, aggregated from several public databases, are displayed in an elegant interface that's easy to browse.

Right now, Gigotron only has gig listings for a few cities (New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco) but the company is releasing an update this week that will provide info for shows all over the United States -- including Austin.

Gigotron picked up the best mobile app award here at the South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards here Sunday night. Wired.com caught up with founder and CEO Benjamin Satterfield and CTO Tristan Kosmynka to chat about what's next for Gigotron, what it feels like to win and how the company is coping with AT&T's shaky-flaky signal at SXSW.

Read the whole article @ Wired

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Gigotron's iPhone App Pulls Great Gigs From the Sky

AUSTIN, Texas -- Music junkies are crazy about their iPhones, and for good reason. Not only is it a phone and an iPod all in one, but several iPhone apps make it easy to find music clubs, hook up with friends at concerts and change plans on the fly.

One such app is Gigotron, a free iPhone download that lets music lovers search for nearby shows in their area. Concert listings large and small, aggregated from several public databases, are displayed in an elegant interface that's easy to browse.

Right now, Gigotron only has gig listings for a few cities (New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco) but the company is releasing an update this week that will provide info for shows all over the United States -- including Austin.

Gigotron picked up the best mobile app award here at the South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards here Sunday night. Wired.com caught up with founder and CEO Benjamin Satterfield and CTO Tristan Kosmynka to chat about what's next for Gigotron, what it feels like to win and how the company is coping with AT&T's shaky-flaky signal at SXSW.

Read the whole article @ Wired

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Free iPhones Almost Everywhere, Except the US

Much fuss has been made in the last day about the Japanese iPhone, now available free. It might be true that the Japanese hate the iPhone, but this news is being treated as some kind of big deal.

In fact, a cheap iPhone seems to be a US obsession. A Google search for $99 iPhone brings 3,260,000 results. But the fact is, the $99 iPhone is already here, along with the free iPhone -- you just have to look outside North America to get it. I whipped up the table above to show just how widespread is the free handset. These are the countries I have lived in, but there are plenty more.

Sure, you have to pick a hefty contract to get the handset for nothing, but the US already sucked that one in last year with the debut of the iPhone 3G and its carrier subsidies. Quit whining, already.

However, if you read the little blurb below, you CAN get a free iphone in the US and in Canada and you don't even need a contract or pay ANY additional junk fees.

Read the whole article @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Free iPhones Almost Everywhere, Except the US

Much fuss has been made in the last day about the Japanese iPhone, now available free. It might be true that the Japanese hate the iPhone, but this news is being treated as some kind of big deal.

In fact, a cheap iPhone seems to be a US obsession. A Google search for $99 iPhone brings 3,260,000 results. But the fact is, the $99 iPhone is already here, along with the free iPhone -- you just have to look outside North America to get it. I whipped up the table above to show just how widespread is the free handset. These are the countries I have lived in, but there are plenty more.

Sure, you have to pick a hefty contract to get the handset for nothing, but the US already sucked that one in last year with the debut of the iPhone 3G and its carrier subsidies. Quit whining, already.

However, if you read the little blurb below, you CAN get a free iphone in the US and in Canada and you don't even need a contract or pay ANY additional junk fees.

Read the whole article @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!

Why the Japanese Hate the Free iPhone

Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free.

What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: the high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, the low-quality camera, the unfashionable design and the fact that it's not Japanese.

In an effort to boost business, Japanese carrier SoftBank this week launched the "iPhone for Everybody" campaign, which gives away the 8-GB model of the iPhone 3G if customers agree to a two-year contract.

"The pricing has been completely out of whack with market reality," said Global Crown Research analyst Tero Kuittinen in regard to Apple's iPhone prices internationally. "I think they [Apple and its partners overseas] are in the process of adjusting to local conditions."

Read the whole article @ Wired

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Why the Japanese Hate the Free iPhone

Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free.

What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: the high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, the low-quality camera, the unfashionable design and the fact that it's not Japanese.

In an effort to boost business, Japanese carrier SoftBank this week launched the "iPhone for Everybody" campaign, which gives away the 8-GB model of the iPhone 3G if customers agree to a two-year contract.

"The pricing has been completely out of whack with market reality," said Global Crown Research analyst Tero Kuittinen in regard to Apple's iPhone prices internationally. "I think they [Apple and its partners overseas] are in the process of adjusting to local conditions."

Read the whole article @ Wired

Get a Free iPhone! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free iPhone!