Viber Launches Desktop Apps For Mac And PC; Allows Video Calls
Mmmm.. Microsoft bought Skype. Who is next to buy Viber?!
Rovio Will Let You Save Game Progress in the Cloud, Resume Playing on Any Device
Rovio:
Some of you may have noticed a new feature in your Rovio games called Rovio Account. Our fans have been asking for a way to play their game on different phones or tablets without losing their progress when changing the device. This is exactly what Rovio Account lets you do!
Sounds great. This should be default to all multi-platform games.
For All Those Arguing About Apple Needs A Flat Design, Would You Please Shut Up!
Apple is fond of design, and this is a fact. Now, Simply put, almost all the best-in-class design Apps[ref]Yes, indisputable design that everyone seems to like[/ref] are non-other-than skeuomorphic in a way or another[ref]In these Apps skeuomorphism could refer to using real-life design elements, material, fabrics, or animations[/ref] including, Instagram, Camera+, Tweetbot, Reeder, Park Guides, TodoMovies, InFuse, Sooner, Convertbot, Weightbot, to name a few.
Not surprising that people seem to embrace those Apps as long as they look elegant, feel intuitive and do the job.
In addition to the Apps links, I uploaded a complete list of collected screenshots that can be viewed by vising the photo stream I share here: Skeuomorphism in iOS
Apple could do us a favor and only one in particular; add more functionalities to the damned iOS.
Bill Gates on the iPad: ‘A Lot of Those Users Are Frustrated’
Bill Gates to CNBC:
Gates was asked about the declining PC market. He said that tablets are growing in popularity, and it’s “going to be harder and harder to distinguish products” that are PCs versus tablets. The Surface, he says, brings the “portability of the tablet but the richness of the PC.”
He then said of people using iPad-like devices, “A lot of those users are frustrated, they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.”
This is just laughably dumb stupid. Can’t Gates just realize that Microsoft Surface has literally 0.0% market share, a device with physical keyboard and Office yet, no one seems to embrace it?! Not surprising, it’s the same guy who once said the iPad would fail because it had no stylus.
Not to mention, Apple sold 19.5 million iPads last quarter.