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iPhone app deals: compare the total offer, not the discount badge
Evaluate sale pricing against the edition, included features, renewal terms, and the task you need to complete.
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How to read iPhone app reviews and find evidence that matters
Look past the average score to the task, version and conditions behind a review before deciding whether an app fits your needs.
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Searchme: the early iPhone experiment with visual search results
What made Searchme’s page-preview approach distinctive and how to assess a search interface beyond its presentation.
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Natuba: the early iPhone photo-sharing idea and the archive problem
A retrospective on sharing pictures from a phone, with a practical distinction between posting an image and preserving it.
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Bad Piggies on iPhone: solve the journey by building the vehicle
Bad Piggies asks you to assemble a contraption and discover whether it can reach its destination.
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Bodybook: keep a workout journal useful beyond one app
What surviving 2009 references say about Bodybook Fitness Journal and how to preserve meaningful personal records.
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From an iCols link to myCols: identifying the cycling app by its Apple ID
This legacy address contains the name iCols, while Apple’s lookup for the same numeric app ID currently returns myCols.
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MyRail Lite: an early live-train app and the data behind the timetable
Why an old train app is a useful reminder to distinguish a scheduled departure from an updated running estimate.
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Strategy games on iPhone: choose the decisions you want to make
Compare turn length, readable information, save behavior, and the content included in a mobile strategy game.
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Physics Gamebox: two cannon puzzles from the browser-game era
Ragdoll Cannon and Roly-Poly Cannon brought their chain reactions to early iPhone gaming in one collection.
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Minecraft on iPhone: choose a first project before entering the world
Mojang’s listing describes Creative play with plentiful resources and Survival play built around gathering, crafting and danger.
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MyCalendar Mobile: how to keep birthday reminders useful after an app changes
A historical birthday app leads to a practical routine for maintaining dates, checking calendar visibility and choosing a personal greeting.