"Color is a lot easier to use when you have the app’s founder, and one of the app’s designers in the same room to walk you through it."

"This is a big departure from how competing application stores, including iTunes, sell apps. Traditionally, the app prices have always been set by the retailer. But Amazon knows how to list items to move. When it comes to setting pricing, Amazon's experience may end up helping developers sell more apps than they would have otherwise."

"Eventually we came to the conclusion that we should stick with what we’re good at: web apps. We know the technologies well, we have a great development environment and workflow, we can control the release cycle, and everyone at 37signals can do the work. It’s what we already do, just on a smaller screen. We all loved our smaller screens so we were eager to dive in. Plus, since WebKit-based browsers were making their way to the webOS and Blackberry platforms too, our single web-app would eventually run on just about every popular smartphone platform."

"Call it the mirror web. If you create digital information in any form, make a parallel version of that information that lives on the web. A magazine publisher creating an iPad app should ensure that each article has clear links to a mirror version of each article on the web."

"Shakespeare is the most widely celebrated writer in the world - yet in London, where he spent his working life, he is curiously neglected apart from the reconstructed Globe theatre. "

RT @imran: cute…stationers making iPad apps? {} #muji!

"After being trialed at the end of 2009 by more than 200 visitors, in its final version, this application provides access to a large amount of audio and video content about the gardens. The leading specialists on the Versailles estate (curators, architects, gardeners, water engineers) welcome visitors, presenting an item of historical information, a detail about the decor, an insightful viewpoint and aspects of life on the estate otherwise unseen by visitors…This enhanced visit will enable visitors to discover the Versailles Gardens onsite or remotely."

Sports apps and pop-up shops

"TAP is a new way for visitors to experience the Museum using an iPod Touch or iPhone. IMA staff developed the software, which provides visitors to major exhibitions the opportunity to immerse themselves in the exhibition through an engaging and thought-provoking multimedia experience that costs just $5."

"some evidence that people are tapping both applications and the browser nearly equally, which should be a wake-up call to media companies or advertisers that are favoring one over the other."

ONLINE alert service TheFashionPixie.com has launched the UK’s first fashion bargain hunter’s iPhone App, making it easier for users to find the best retail deals while on the move.

"Founded specifically as an ePublisher, Collca currently publishes book-derived and other educational and reference mobile apps initially for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. More platforms will be added as required.

The Cold War In An Hour by Rupert Colley is our first app to be on sale in the Apple iTunes store. We are planning a lot of future titles both in the History In An Hour series and for other series."

"Back then, geeks were unused to other industry sectors barging into our little rustic byte farmyards with their fancy suits and corporate triumphantly about digital convergence, and then, seconds later, striding into the business-model threshing machine that thrummed in the corner. We did not know then that there was a queue of people like this, waiting to dance past us into the bloody knives. We watched their cockiness with alarm, not with the disdain that would come later (and definitely not with own brand of hubristic Internet rockstar smugness, the smugness that tempts us all to look a bit less closely at ourselves, and a bit more closely at that thresher). knives."

"People love to create stark choices around economic models. But the app business will not be a winner-take-all market, and is not a competition between strict concepts. In the app business, these options can be used to support each other. There can be hybrid approaches where free becomes both a promotional vehicle and a distribution channel for app sales and additional monetization methods. "

"But so far, what I've noticed most about apps in AppWorld is that they are, for the most part, all about themselves. They're not connected to the greater web, and they don't encourage you to move seamlessly from one app to another, depending on your intent. seamlessly from one app to another, depending on your intent."

"EXPANDING online news service TheBusinessDesk.com has become the first regional business publisher to offer a free iPhone ‘app', making it even easier for users to access its three business news sites while on the move."

"This does mean that there are varying levels of access to handset and network APIs, depending on what handset a widget is sitting, but for simple service concepts widgets, we believe that widgets have huge potential to tick all the boxes, especially for brands and agencies looking for a greater reach or different demographic to the normal iPhone app campaigns."

The BBC has announced it will offer iPhone applications for its news and sport content starting in April.

The free apps will be followed by versions for BlackBerry and phones running Google's Android software.

"“In the interim period, apps will be very successful,” said Jay Sullivan, vice president of Mozilla’s mobile division, in an interview with PC Pro. “Over time, the web will win because it always does.”"

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"There are no logins or apps to open, and your data's always safe."

"Yeah, there is a web for that, all right."

"[1] In this essay, I'm using "the iPhone" as a convenient shorthand for "any of a number of devices and smartphones that offer similar functionality to the iPhone, including but not limited to the Palm Pre, Android phones, Blackberry Storm, and iPod Touch". Similar arguments apply, to varying degrees, to these devices and their manufacturers but are especially relevant to the iPhone and Apple; hence, the shorthand. If you don't read this footnote, adequately absorb its message, and send me email to the effect of "the iPhone sux because Apple and AT&T are monopolistic robber barons", I reserve the right to punch you in the face while yelling I WASN'T JUST TALKING ABOUT THE IPHONE YOU JACKASS."