You can buy a £3 version of iPhoto for your iPad and iPhone now. You can edit your photos to make them look better, on your handheld Apple device. It looks very handsome. But it's also confusing, superfluous, and a little dumb.
To take advantage of its fancy new retina display, higher res camera, and boosted processor, the iWork and iLife apps for the third-generation iPad have also been updated. And since that new display will make working with photos a treat, Apple also introduced an iOS version of iPhoto.
Today Google took steps to get all of its entertainment ducklings in a row. Google Play is the new umbrella that will cover the company's Apps, Movies, Music, and Books offerings. It'll cover both desktops and Android phones.
Adobe's latest version of Lightroom, the photo management and editing tool, was released as beta back in January. Now it's been officially released as Lightroom 4, and brings with it a big drop in price; the full version now costs around £110 instead of the £250-of-so.
We've now downloaded an astronomical 25 billion iOS apps, and Apple's put out lists of the all time most popular for iPhone and iPad.
Photo filters are fine, I suppose, but the idea of having an app that can pixellate the shit out of a photo in any number of ways sounds like even more fun. Enter pxl.
Ahead of Wednesday's iPad launch, Apple has just announced that it's hit a staggering 25 billion downloads from its App Store. That puts Google's total of 10 billion in the shade. [Apple]
Over at TheNextWeb, Matthew Panzarino argues that because expected resolution bump of the iPad 3 display would make app file sizes much larger, the App Store full of iPad apps larger than 20 megabytes which can't be downloaded over a 3G connection. Honestly, however, it's too soon to declare anything a problem.
Apple didn't mislead UK consumers over what Siri would be capable of when it arrived over here, it was our stupid fault for watching US announcements and getting too excited over features we were never going to get.
EA's attempt to bring its popular shooter series to mobiles has come to an embarrassing end, with the mega-publisher admitting its rubbish game won't be returning to iTunes.
According to the New York Times, Apple’s pushing ahead with a proposed streaming TV service, where channels are individual apps. Apparently, despite finding it hard going to secure content deals, Apple is prioritising the streaming service over an Apple HDTV, and it’s been going at it for months trying to throw its weight around.
