MobileViews Blog

Category: Apple

  • Apple (AAPL) Market Cap Larger Than Google (GOOG) – A Back & Forth Battle

    Just noticed that Apple’s (AAPL) market cap is now larger than Google’s (GOOG):

    AAPL: $141.73 billion
    GOOG: $139.92 billion

    I should note that the AAPL and GOOG have been very close in market cap for several years now and have been trading places one upping each other for over two years now.

    Next in AAPL’s sites? Maybe Microsoft (MSFT) whose share price dropped 9% so far today and who yesterday reported large double digit percentage losses in all kinds of metrics. MSFT’s current market cap is $206.83 billion.

  • Podcast 30: iFixit iPhone 3G S Tear Down Discussion with Luke Soules

    iFixit’s Kyle Wiens flew to London to be one of the first people in the world to buy an iPhone 3G S and then take it apart. iFixit co-founder Luke Soules and I discussed what Kyle found. You can find a step-by-step description with photos of the tear down process here:

    iFixit iPhone 3G S Teardown

    This podcast is 19 minutes 10 seconds long.

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  • Mini-Podcast 10: iPhone OS 3.0 Update

    I updated my iPhone 3G to iPhone OS 3.0 and decided to try out the new Voice Memos app to record a mini-podcast. I apologize for the exceptionally poor sound quality. I didn’t realize that it would be so poor. I have a number of other rude OS 3.0 shocks that I discovered after recording this mini-podcast. Rants to follow later…

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
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    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • Podcast 28: iFixit.com Gadget Teardowns – CEO Kyle Wiens

    iFixit.com is famous for its detailed photography and text descriptions of gadget tear downs (mostly Apple products). They were the group, for example, that discovered the 2nd generation iPod had an unused Bluetooth radio in it. They took apart the Palm Pre and its TouchStone induction charger this past weekend. I spoke with its CEO and founder Kyle Wiens to talk about iFixit, their tear downs and their new user contributed tear downs.

    http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown

    This podcast is 26 minutes and 47 seconds long.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your phone.

  • Blast from the Podcast Past: Podcast 4 with Ilium Software

    I just found out that one of my long time favorite mobile software development firms has a Twitter account. You can follow Ilium Software at…

    @IliumSoftware

    Ilium’s Ellen Craw and Marc Tassin were one of the very first podcast guests on the MobileViews Podcast (then called the MobileAppsToday Podcast). You can listen to it using the embedded podcast player above.

  • Podcast 26: iHound Software – Track a Lost or Stolen iPhone

    I had the opportunity to speak with iHound Software’s VP of Business Development (and one of the firm’s founders) about their iHound for iPhone app that can help you recover a lost or stolen iPhone. The app normally costs $3.99 but is currently on sale in the iTunes App Store for $2.99. Purchasing the app includes 6 months of tracking service via their website. The annual cost for the service is $9.99.

    Gary announced on the podcast that they just started providing code to enable other applications to use their service. This means, for example, that if a game is iHound enabled, if someone uses that app on your iPhone, it will broadcast its current position.

    – You can listen to the podcast right now from your web browser by using the embedded player above.
    – You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or this RSS feed.
    – You can also point your smartphone’s browser at mobiletoday.podbean.com to listen to or download the MP3 file over the air to your pho