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Gauss: An iPhone app for managing credit cards, budgets, and debt payoff
Gauss is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app that helps users manage credit cards, budgets, and debt payoff plans.
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Apple updates App Store Connect for iPhone Duo, signaling broader app rollout
Apple’s App Store Connect now supports iPhone Duo, opening the submission path for optimized apps and new App Store badges.
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Zoom Workplace iPhone Guide: Meetings, Chat, Scheduling, and AI
Zoom Workplace combines meetings, chat, phone, docs, and AI tools in one iPhone app.
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Hungry Penguins: the physics puzzle behind the 2011 headline
Identify the original penguin game and its fish-collecting, obstacle-navigation challenge.
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Facebook, Facely HD and iSocialize: a 2011 interface comparison
The original article compared three ways to reach Facebook from an iPhone.
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iPad 2 and the moment the tablet became a creative notebook
Apple’s 2011 tablet launch paired cameras with music and video tools, suggesting a useful approach to making small projects.
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Springpad vs Evernote: smart notes, saved ideas, and keeping your data
Revisit Springpad’s 2011 approach to organizing notes, its later shutdown, and the export checks that still matter when choosing a notes app.
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Show of Hands: the mobile polling app reviewed in 2011
Revisit the app’s question-and-results workflow and how to read a voluntary poll carefully.
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Square in 2011: turning a phone into a payment point
Revisit the early Square reader and the mobile-payment workflow discussed in the original article.
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CrispApp’s Facebook Messenger: calling Facebook friends in 2011
This February 2011 app came from CrispApp. Explore its original voice-calling pitch and watch the historical iPhoneApplicationList demonstration.
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iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom: the expectations before launch
Read the January 2011 comparison as a record of tablet speculation, with confirmed announcements kept separate.
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iPhone app trends in 2010: bigger screens and a broader platform
A retrospective on the iPad, iPhone 4, and iOS changes that gave app developers new choices in 2010.