Smartphones before & after
Thursday, 09 February 2012
Smartphones before and after iPhone — Sometimes a picture says a thousand words. Look at smartphones (picture, left, from Cult of Mac) before the iPhone, and see the impact it had once it came out (right).[While that's remarkable, it's also pretty boring, all those black similarly-sized smartphones.]
Smartphone profits almost all Apples — According to All Things D, Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt charted the industry’s revenue performance, specifically looking at smartphones and tablets. The results show that industry revenues have essentially doubled since the iPhone was introduced in 2007 from $37.9 billion to $71.4 billion.
What’s startling is that all the new revenue growth in mobile since then has belonged to Apple.
And the app economy has created almost half a million jobs.
Mass Effect App to increase game knowledge — EA’s next major console title, Mass Effect 3, is set to grace game stores in the U.S. on March 6, and will be accompanied by an iOS app called Mass Effect Infiltrator that promises to “increase a player’s Galactic Readiness rating.”
Retina Display screenshots: 3GS soon to be discontinued? Apple is now requiring iPhone developers to submit Retina screenshots. Any updates to existing apps must also include Retina screenshots, if they are not already present, otherwise the updates will not be approved by Apple.
The requirements for high-resolution images are 960x640, 960x600, 640x960, or 640x920 pixels. Images must be at least 72 dpi, RGB and the file must be .jpeg, .jpg, .tif, .tiff, or .png. You can update your screenshot files at any time in iTunes Connect.
The iPad 3 is expected to appear within the next few months carrying a higher-resolution display that will utilize the same ideas as with the iPhone and iPod touch, doubling the display resolution in each dimension to 2048x1536 to allow for sharper content while easily maintaining compatibility with lower-resolution apps using pixel doubling. .
[Makes sense – if an iPhone 5 appears in May, the iPhone 4/4S becomes the cheap secondary iPhone.]
iPad at work — If you're following Macworld's iPad at work series, here's part 3.
