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Google-Made Native iPhone Apps Ready For Store Launch

Google is joining the ranks as one software developer that's highly anticipating the opening of Apple's iPhone/iPod touch App Store. Features provided by Google have been available on the iPhone since the beginning with the Google Maps app, followed by Youtube. Great as those are, don't think they're stopping there. Along with the numerous web apps they have planned, the web giant has several native apps patiently waiting. Said Vic Gundotra, Google VP of engineering, "we expect to have applications at Day One."

Written by Edward Kirk on May 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Google’s Vic Gundotra on the iPhone

I've got a story over at the Mothership about Google's iPhone plans, in which Vic Gundotra, the company's vice president of engineering, talks about Google's commitment to producing native apps for the iPhone. (It's part of a larger profile of Google's Mac development efforts that I wrote, just in case that sort of thing interests you.)

Anyway, there's an anecdote Gundotra related to me that I couldn't fit into the article but that I think is amusing enough to repeat here.

He told me that he and his family were having lunch a few weeks back with another family -- adults clustered at one end of the table, kids at the other. And at one point in the conversation, Gundotra's friend asks a question that Gundotra doesn't know the answer to. He says, "I don't know," which is when his four-year-old -- previously indifferent to the adults' conversation -- chimes in: "Daddy," she asks, "where's your phone?"

"What happened was, she heard me tell my friend 'I don't know,'" Gundotra told me. "And when she hears me say, 'I don't know,' she expects me to pick up my iPhone and get an answer. That's the world a four-year-old is growing up in."

I've had similar experiences with other technology. For example, sometimes when I'm in a movie theater and I miss a portion of the dialogue, I'll instinctively make a motion with my hand like I'm pressing the Rewind button on a TiVo remote -- I'll even mimic the little be-boop noise the TiVo makes when it rewinds, if I'm being especially mindless. And I always feel just a trifle disappointed when the movie doesn't rewind on my command.

But that's just me. How about you? Got any stories about how the iPhone -- or some similar electronic doodad has changed the way you interact with the world around you?

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Written by Philip Michaels on May 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Ecamm Releases Updated iPhone Drive & Data Interface

Yesterday Ecamm Network released version 2.0 of their iPhone interface software, now called PhoneView. Previously called MegaPhone, PhoneView allows iPhone users full access to the media portion of the phone. PhoneView doesn't require any hacks and immediately allows access to your music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, camera roll, and photo albums. Additionally, PhoneView also provides access to notes, contacts, recents, SMS message history, and much more.

Written by Michael Johnston on May 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Common Myths for the Macintosh

Web entrepreneur David Alison addresses various myths Windows users have about switching to Mac in his blog posting, "Common Myths for the Macintosh".

"One of the reasons I was not interested in Macs for a very long time was that I clung to many facts about the Mac that I felt eliminated it from contention. Well, as with many things in life it turns out the facts that I knew about the Mac were either hopelessly outdated or simply myths. What I wanted to do was tell you the ones that I was aware of and often cited when I dismissed Macs in the past."

List of Common Mac Myths:
• Mac's only use a single mouse button
• There are not that many applications for Macs
• Macs are closed machines that cannot be expanded
• Macs don't work well with Windows machines on a network
• Macs are more expensive
• Macs can't run my Windows software
• Macs are mouse centered machines. You constantly have to grab the mouse.

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Written by -Administration- on May 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Boston Apple Store Opens With Red Sox

Crowds stormed the grand opening of Bostons new Apple Store to a thundering applause and Red Sox players.

Christine McConville for the Boston Herald writes, "It was a great night to be an Apple fan."

"Seconds after a cheering mob of Apple employees threw open the glass doors at the nation’s largest Apple Store, awestruck fans ran inside to thundering applause."

"As they spiraled up a glass staircase, the rock star treatment continued. There was Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek chatting nonchalantly with a couple of Apple guys.And on the next level, Sox players Manny Delcarmen and Coco Crisp [stats] drew as many stares as Apple’s lightest-ever laptop computers."

[Images after the break]