The iPhone App Show Episode 58 - “Questia weighs in: The Future of mobile eBooks”




The App Show - iPhone Application News, Reviews and Interviews show

Summary: The App Show for March 7, 2010 In today's show, we will have an interesting interview with Sean Sullivan of Questia, blocked Wifi apps, HTC's man in the middle of Google and Apple Interview - Sean Sullivan - Director of Consumer Sales and Marketing Questia Research books How many book does Questia make available? Who are your typical customers? What sort of books do you make available? in-app purchase - webbased subscriptions How much do you charge for access? Do you provide apps for other platforms? Do you plan to port this to the iPad? Can customers copy/paste text out of a book? what sort of DRM do you use? Is it portable? Reference http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/ Brief Talking points Steve had to restore and re-jailbreak 3.1.2 - experiences News Apple removing wifi scanners from the store A brief overview of why The API problem AT#38;T to make major upgrades in Michigan - Happy Steve, Dave not happy until he get 3G - link Buzzie for the iPhone - first native Google Buzz app. $1.99 RevMedia allows you to create iPhone apps without knowing ObjectiveC plans to sell for $999 when released $799 will get you in the beta program along with the final release Apple rejected an app that estimated the radiation that your body absorbs from the phone Tawkon remail goes open source Google backs HTC in what could be 'long and bloody battle' with Apple - Link Acceleramoter Flip screen - Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device Object-Oriented Graphic System Jailbroken News LastApp is like alt+tab for the iPhone LINK iPad News Orders start March 12. nbsp;Shipping April 3 16GB WiFi only -- $499 32GB WiFi only -- $599 64GB WiFi only -- $699 16GB WiFi + 3G -- $629 32GB WiFi + 3G -- $729 64GB WiFi + 3G -- $829 Steve Jobs says iPad won't teather from an iPhone (link) - not much he can do about the mywi app, though. Apple iPad Available For Pre-Order From March 12, On Sale From April 3 Which iPad should you buy? iPad to make emergency phone calls? WSJ has pre-release iPad kept 'under padlock and key' by Apple - Link Vers Handcrafted Wood iPad Case Beautifies Your Bezel, Props Your Pad - Link App Picks Steve - Doodle Buddy - Free - Link