IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
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Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Wagetap iPhone app review: wage advances and bill splitting in Australia
Wagetap is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for Australian wage advances and bill splitting.
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Univerbal for iPhone: AI conversation practice for language learners
Univerbal is a YC Winter 2023 language-learning app for speaking practice, instant feedback, and personalized conversation drills.
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Travel apps for iPhone: maps, itineraries and offline preparation
The best travel setup on an iPhone starts with three jobs: keeping reservations together, finding your way, and having essential information available…
Latest perspectives
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Overheard: mapping social conversation in an early iPhone app
The 2010 listing described a geographic view of social posts, not access to private conversations.
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iTunes Ping: Apple’s 2010 experiment in social music discovery
Following artists and friends inside iTunes was an attempt to make music purchases part of a shared conversation.
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Game Center in 2010: Apple adds a social layer to iPhone games
Achievements, leaderboards and multiplayer discovery became shared platform features rather than separate systems inside every game.
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Apple’s September 2010 event: the iPod touch and a changing app platform
Retina graphics, FaceTime and Game Center made the 2010 iPod touch more than a portable music player.
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Fotopedia Heritage: discovering World Heritage through photographs
Revisit the app’s map, photography and reference-information workflow, with the original project identity preserved.
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Ever Thought About Going to Cuba? Havana Good Time for iPhone
Revisit Havana Good Time, Conner Gorry’s 2010 iPhone city guide, with its original app screen, historical sources and current availability notes.
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StumbleUpon goes mobile: the appeal of finding something unexpected
A retrospective on mobile web discovery, the service’s later closure, and ways to keep useful discoveries from disappearing.
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iPub Boxing: a motion-based novelty game from 2010
Identify the game behind the old punch-strength headline and separate its score from a verified measurement.
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Bumps: the physics puzzle built around planning a bounce
The history and design of Utopian Games’ Bumps, a puzzle about placement, motion and collecting the right keys.