Apple recently announced that their App store made an astonishing $10 Billion last year, with $1 Billion in December. Their customers downloaded almost 3 billion apps.
That’s so many Apps.
Eddie Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said this about the feat:
“We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, . “The lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.”
Ya, we are too Eddie. particularly the app where you can taste what you see on the internet, the app that uses time travel technology (obviously) and the make your own tiny dinosaur App. Those are the ones we’re really looking forward to.
Our tiny pet dinosaur will be named Sheldon. D’uh.
Images couresy of Android.appstorm.net & Pinterest.
See this guy? This guy is John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile. A couple of days ago he was at CES 2014, the biggest consumer electronics show in the world. Probably because he has some kind of mild interest in new technology, right? Also – apparently John Legere really likes Macklemore., because he went to see him perform while he was there, and because Macklemore is pretty rad, right?
All of this sounds realllly logical. Until you get to the part where Macklemore was actually performing at the AT&T CES party at Rain Nightclub, which John Legere crashed, and was promptly escorted out by security because AT&T got a little upset.
CNET News Executive Editor Roger Cheng was at the party and tweeted:
“Ran into @JohnLegere at the AT&T party. Yep, he crashed it. And still wearing the pink t-mo shirt. #CES2014”
and then:
“Oh wow, security just escorted @JohnLegere out of the party. AT&T is not happy with my tweet. #ces2014”
“Some security guards escorted him out. It was crazy. ”
According to a security guard that spoke with Geek Wire AT&T staffers said that the CEO was “harassing” them.
Later on in the evening, the twitter world heard from the man himself-
” @RogerWCheng great to see you! I just love Macklemore! Very bad move by @ATT and #PalmCasino . Have a great night! I am very angry!
C’mon guys, can’t we all just get along? What would Macklemore do? What what what whaaat what what what whaaaaat…?
Also, some friday afternoon hilarity just for you guys:
Images courtesy of Geekwire, Pandawhale & Memecenter
What would you do if you were Apple; a super giant mobile tech company with millions of dollars and super smart employees and awesome products- stay with us- and some kid comes along with an App that makes your smartphone camera 100 times better? Well?
You buy it, dummies! Or, excuse us, you ‘acquire’ it.
And that’s what Apple has just done, although we may have slightly misspoken with all that ‘kid’ talk. Doctor John Papandriopoulos is the San Fransisco based Australian founder (and sole employee!) of Snappycam, an app which basically turns the iPhone camera super awesome by giving it the capability to take 20 photos per second, giving it burst shoot functionality.
He did this by rewriting the JPEG Algorithm. Obviously.
The acquisition has been rumored for some time after the App was taken out of the App store and all social media presence of Snappycam was taken down, but it was confirmed to the Wall Street Journal last Saturday.
Apple will most likely use the technology to improve their own camera capabilities and release them to us with future software updates.
Yay! We like better camera stuff! We just can’t wait until you can take things out of photos, you know what we mean? Like cupcakes. And Beach holidays. And kittens. This guy should start working on that.
Images courtesy of Techradar & Petapixel
Tags: Apple, Australia, Camera, Entrepreneur, Tech company
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January 8, 2014 1:00 pm | 
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INFOGRAPHICS! YEAH! These things make everything fun to read what with the colors and the shapes and the little pointy arrows!
We give you the best fun of 2014 so far- Smartphone infographics!
YEAH!
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Want to try Google Glass? Haven’t been able to yet? You can either check out eBay for a couple thousand clams OR you can try checking out subscribing to Google’s All Access Music service.
In Google’s most recent device expansion, users who are currently subscribed in the US would have recently received an invitation to try the infamous wearable tech. For only about $1500! Sweet right?
Um, by the way…
Um, yeah. Whats up with that Google? Opportunity MISSED! What suckers. …really rich powerful suckers. Are we right?
Anyway. Google Play Music was just launched on Google Glass, so it made sense for them to send out the invitations for Glass at the same time. Google Play Music All Access is a service available for $9.99 per month that lets users stream music from the internet on their devices.
According to AndroidCentral the invitations read: “Interested in rocking out while exploring with Glass? Sign up to receive your invitation below!”
If you live outside the US, can’t justify the cost, or just can’t fandangle an invite yet, Google Glass is expected to be released to the general public at some point this year, and possibly at less than the current $1500 price tag.
Images courtesy of TheVerge, Knowyourmeme & Lolshelf.
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