For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can’t get enough YouTube on your mobile, we’ve got some great news: starting today, you can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store, bringing you more of the videos you love and more ways to share them with the people you care about.The new app is built by YouTube engineers, to give our iPhone and iPod touch users the best mobile experience.
As expected.
Chris Welch, The Verge:
Apple ruffled some feathers earlier this week when it was discovered third-party apps were being left out of iTunes search results for "podcast" and "podcasts." Today those applications have thankfully returned, though the company still isn't talking about what caused them to be excluded in the first place.
Chris has superb taste in apps, I must say.
The Next Web:
Toy camera app company Hipstamatic has fired all but 5 of its core staff, including engineers and designers.
I never got the appeal of that app, but I know the developers were talented.
Ina Fried for All Things D with a statement from Apple:
“We had a temporary issue that began yesterday with a server that generated DRM code for some apps being downloaded.”
Well, everything is temporary.
“The issue has been rectified and we don’t expect it to occur again,” Apple said. Those who have an affected app can re-download it from the App Store.
TJ Draper's thoughts on Apple's new Podcasts app:
As much as I like some of the interface elements, there are some strange things going on. For instance, in tile mode you can’t access the “Unplayed” area that shows only episodes that have not been played. Sure you can switch to list view, but this seems like a major oversight. What’s more, when in tile view, which is a nice, and beautiful view, you cannot see which podcasts have new and unplayed episodes. Again, an amazing and egregious oversight. This makes tile view beautiful, and completely non-functional.
Satellite Eyes is a simple Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now.
GigaOm:
And Draw Something, which is adding more than 1 million users a day, is pulling in low six figures in revenue a day, (CEO Dan) Porter said, mostly from upgrades but also in-app purchases and advertising.
It’s things like this that make us realize we’re pretty much all in the wrong business.
Also my baby girl just got her second tooth.
Lots of “angry” apps.
Well, can it?
An interesting new app for Mac OS X that tries to help organize your windows by intelligently tiling them.
This is the kind of app that looks great, but I’d really like to try it before dropping $9.99 on it in the App Store, so I can’t comment about actual use.
Worse: the music used in the demo video, intended to be a tongue-in-cheek bit of humor, instead is incredibly obnoxious, off-putting, and distracting from the video’s message. What were they thinking?
I really wish more developers understood the value of a good voice-over.
Try reading this in your Troy McClure voice for best effect:
I’m Zal Bilimoria, and I’m a product manager at Netflix where I lead product innovation for mobile devices. The new app is really a big step forward; it is much more immersive and provides greater focus on our growing catalogue by displaying twice as many titles than the previous interface. In addition, through optimization for touch-enabled tablets, Netflix members can now swipe through rows and rows of titles featuring larger artwork.
I haven’t tried it yet.
