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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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Stock Unlock: iPhone stock tracking and analysis from a Winter 2022 YC company
An iPhone app from Winter 2022 YC company Stock Unlock for portfolio tracking, stock scores, and stock research.
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Cash App for iPhone: payments, debit card, savings, and investing
Cash App combines peer-to-peer payments, a debit card, savings tools, and investing for iPhone users.
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Errand Tracker: shared shopping lists organized around places
The original Errand Tracker connected retailer-based lists, a map and a website for coordinated errands.
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Xpandaballs: a puzzle where every stopped ball takes up space
Craig Caldwell’s early iPhone game combined expanding balls, special types and the risk of running out of room.
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School supply lists on iPhone: buy what the classroom actually needs
Turn a school’s requirements into a clear shopping list, with quantities, ownership and checks for items you already have.
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NZ metMate: a New Zealand weather web app for the early iPhone
NZ metMate brought local forecasts and rain radar into an iPhone-friendly web app. The developer’s 2009 launch discussion preserves the details.
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PhotoToMac: moving early iPhone photographs over Wi-Fi
Revisit Galarina’s PhotoToMac and the distinction between transferring an image and preserving all of its information.
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TonePad: making music with a grid of light
The original TonePad turned a sixteen-by-sixteen grid into an approachable musical sketchpad.
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Be Nice to Bunnies: checking cruelty-free products on iPhone
The historical PETA app put a shopping database on a phone. Its useful lesson is to check the current source behind a…
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PocketScore by Electric Ears: early music notation on the iPhone
PocketScore explored composing a melody on a phone. Contemporary music educators documented its one-staff approach and the limits of a small touchscreen.
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RDM+: controlling a Mac or Windows desktop from an early iPhone
SHAPE Services’ RDM+ paired a mobile remote-control client with software installed on the target computer.