Google gets a love tap from Apple!

Well, love tap may be a little tame, a bit more like what they do at the abattoir to your next unsuspecting steak dinner. Hitting the news earlier this week, was a new app for  the iPhone, from Google and what better way to illustrate it.

Than to send you to a look at a video of the app being used. [Update: It looks like the video has been pulled, and according to CrunchGear this one's been hit on the head.]

The question has been going around this week, that the fruit company is building a search engine, and this may seem like confirmation for lots of people. How does that SDK thing go , if it replicates any of the native functions, or intended native functions of the iPhone, it’s a no go zone in the app store.

But why not just say it? Why all the skulking? Could Apple be taking a page from Stalin’s playbook? The “hushing up inconvenient news” page, not the “purge of millions of intelligentsia page,” obviously.

It’s a big No from Apple to Google, are they scared of Android? Or is this really confirmation of an iPhone based search engine. Why doesn’t Apple like Google?

Thanks to techAU for the link

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Opera mini for iPhone! has the fat lady sung?

Opera Mini is ready for the iPhone, but it can’t get approval for the app store. Now we all know Opera is the best Windows Mobile Browser right, and Opera mini, is the most versatile and complete browser over many platforms. As a phone at the moment, I’m using a basic Samsung phone, so for internet I use opera Mini, you can’t beat it. Opera Mini is the prefered browser of a lot of dumb phone users.  If you are a Windows Mobile user you are probably going to be sporting a version of opera to circumvent MIE, cause let’s face it, it’s lacking at the moment [an update would be appreciated by all]

The idea though that Opera Mini has been rejected by Apple is a bit inflammatory to say the least. Of course it makes good copy to say Apple have rejected a respected application from the app store. Anything that goes up against or replicates native app’s on the iPhone, is not allowed.

One thing I would point out here is the source article from the NYTimes

I have to confess, I haven’t paid much attention to Opera Software until recently. The Norwegian company has been an also-ran in the browser market for 13 years.

The author has obviously not been paying attention to the mobile market, and it’s quite sad that a reputable publication can offer up such uninformed views.

Apple Blocking Opera Mini for iPhone

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Review: Texas Hold’em for iPhone

I have always loved playing poker.  I still remember when I was young, and my friend’s Dad taught me how to play seven card draw.  I won’t say I was hooked (because that might imply something far more sinister) but I had a blast playing.  Since then, I have been a member of both regular and (more often) semi-regular poker tables.  And I am always hunting for the latest and greatest electronic poker games on whatever device I am currently using.

I love playing these games electronically for two reasons.  First, have you ever tried to explain to your wife that you just lost $10,000 playing poker?  Yeah, much easier when it is imaginary money.  And second, it is much easier to win every once in a while.

So, with that in mind I decided to try out Texas Hold’em for the iPhone, one of the few games which was actually developed by Apple itself.

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App for iPhone… Sonic Lighter!

Ok I find this fascinating, not knowing if it’s useful for anything, but it does demonstrate some advanced features of the iPhone, communicating with other iPhone’s in a unique way. Especially the ability to blow on the iPhone’s touch screen and get a response from the app. The app comes from Smule, and it only costs $1, other than amusement, I don’t know what it does but it obviously qualifies for the app store.

Via Gizmodo

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Chrome your Android, or is it nickel plated?

Has everyone tried Google’s new browser, ok I’ll wait just a minute whilst you install it…

Chrome has made a big shiny splash this week and there’s lot’s of speculation about what it means, for Cloud computing and for Mobile computing. Maybe even for OS’s?

Now most of the rumours are actually being fuelled by Google (or it’s representatives) itself, and it raised a few questions for me, when I turned on random brain functionality. (read: sat down and thought about all of the stuff I’ve read about it in the last couple of days, and started to formulate a new possibility). What really kicked off this train of thought was a post from Matt Miller over at ZDnet, his observations of the construction of the Chrome browser, really triggered off a phantasmagorical train of thought for me.

the new Chrome browser is based on the WebKit open source project like the Nokia S60 and Apple iPhone browsers I think it is very possible that it will be coming to the mobile space and may actually be the browser that we see launched on the Google Android

That simple statement made me think, if Android, S60 and Apples apps are that similair, based on a comparable operating environment, might this be Google’s “incognito” route to an open source operating system? I know it’s a big jump, but Sergey looks rather tired, and any challenge to Microsoft that Google may make in the OS war, would have to start covertly with mobile and migrate to the desktop, this is just some speculation on my part.
If you build a browser that is Desktop and Mobile compatible, you might start to think that the mobile OS that will run the Mobile compatible Browser, will run a Desktop computer?

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i Rumours…

Kevin Rose posted a picture of what might be the new iPod Nano, then Brandon shared a link with me, that indicated there was a company out there making cases to fit an iPod that resembles this form factor. Anyone recall the furor around the “fattie” the iPod ugly duckling? It turned out to be a swan didn’t it? 

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