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Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Status: A fandom roleplay social feed for iPhone
Status is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for fandom roleplay and social-feed storytelling.
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SHEIN – Shopping Online for iPhone: what it does and what to expect
Browse SHEIN’s mobile storefront, review permissions, and check iOS compatibility before installing.
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IoTFlows iPhone app brings machine monitoring to factory teams
IoTFlows is a Winter 2022 YC app for iPhone that helps manufacturers monitor machines, downtime, and maintenance.
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iPhone Sudoku: Steve McLaughlin’s early browser puzzle
Steve McLaughlin’s browser Sudoku helped define early iPhone gaming. Revisit its number-first controls and historical identity.
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RonPaul iPhone Headquarters: a campaign website for the first iPhone
A look at the 2007 mobile campaign site built by Terra Eclipse for Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign.
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New York On Tap: finding the next stop with an early iPhone
Revisit the mobile New York On Tap bar directory and its practical approach to small-screen local search.
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MSN Messenger on the first iPhone: the original web widget
Identify the third-party MSN widget behind this 2007 bookmark and understand why a messenger’s interface and network are different things.
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iPhone sho’fr: automotive reviews in the mobile browser
Identify sho’fr’s early iPhone community and how local automotive reviews differ from a service specification.
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Apple’s early iPhone RSS reader: a web-shaped beginning for mobile news
The reader.mac.com experiment belongs to the first iPhone’s browser-based era and still offers a useful lesson about choosing a manageable news feed.
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iPhone recipes: organize the dishes you actually cook
A practical recipe-library workflow for saving sources, recording changes, and planning a useful grocery list.
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CheapMF: an early mobile product-search tool
Revisit the product search and customer-review workflow behind this 2007 iPhone web listing.
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YouTube on the first iPhone: the mobile website and built-in app
Understand the two early routes to YouTube on iPhone and why the date of an archived page matters.