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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Marketing Forecast: a mobile research reader, not a prediction engine
What Ad-ology’s early iPhone app delivered and how to evaluate a marketing statistic before building a decision around it.
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Rally Master Pro: revisiting Fishlabs’ iPhone preview
Read the original Rally Master Pro announcement as a preview and separate promised racing features from a finished-game review.
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iGarageSale: finding nearby sales in an early iPhone map app
The original iGarageSale listing connected searchable local-sale notices with a map and list view.
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Office on the go: the document workflows early iPhone apps tried to solve
A historical look at Quickoffice and Documents To Go, with practical questions for evaluating mobile document work.
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Shazam: the iPhone app that put a name to a song
How Shazam brought music recognition to the early App Store, what audio matching does, and where to find the current official app.
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IM+ 3.3: a 2009 update to the mobile messaging interface
A historical look at the inbox, chat and service changes described for IM+ version 3.3.
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Free Books by Spreadsong: what “free” meant in the original app
Revisit the original Free Books reader, its catalog model and the distinction between an app’s price and the books inside it.
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Internet Radio Box: keep the station as well as the player
The legacy eingrad radio app highlights a useful habit for internet listening: know the broadcaster behind a saved favourite.
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Early iPhone VoIP: iCall, Vopium and Truphone compared in 2009
The historical comparison shows three different approaches to internet calling, pricing and messaging on the early iPhone.