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Barnes & Noble Introduces Nook For Web, Which Will Benefit iOS Customers Too
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue July 17th, 2012
The largest brick and mortar book retailer in the U.S. announces the release of Nook for Web. Now you can read your e-books everywhere.
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Amazon Launches Their Own Game Center For Kindle Fire
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed July 11th, 2012
Amazon launches GameCircle, taking on Apple's own Game Center.
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Welcome To The Smartphone Market, Amazon
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Fri July 06th, 2012
Where there's smoke ... Amazon expected to launch first Kindle Phone.
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Launch Of Google's Nexus 7 Tablet All But Guarantees Apple Will Unveil An iPad 'mini' This Fall
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue July 03rd, 2012
There is no way Apple will let Google's Nexus 7 become a success; look for an iPad "mini" to arrive soon.
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Apple Points Finger At Amazon In E-Book Price Fixing Case
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Fri June 01st, 2012
In a new court filing, Apple is again defending itself over alleged e-book price fixing. In doing so they put the blame on Amazon.
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Is The iPad 2 What Slowed The Kindle Fire?
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu May 10th, 2012
Last fall, the technology world was proclaiming that a true iPad competitor was born in Amazon’s Kindle Fire. However, six months after the tablet arrived, its popularity has waned almost to the point of obscurity. Apple’s lower priced iPad 2 is to blame, says All Things Digital.
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Was Apple Behind Target's Decision To Stop Selling Amazon's Kindle Line?
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed May 02nd, 2012
Target today confirmed they are phasing out Kindles and Amazon- and Kindle-branded products. This news, which was original reported by The Verge, ends as the retailer plans to roll out Apple “mini-stores” later this year. Coincidence?
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Use LEGOS To Create Your Own Unique iPhone Case
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu April 26th, 2012
If you’re still looking for a case for your iPhone and also want show off your creative side, check out the SmartWorks Brickcase for the iPhone 4S/4 and iPod touch.
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AppAdvice’s Week In Review
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Sun April 15th, 2012
Are we getting close to another dot-com tech bubble? Perhaps we are when this week's most interesting (and troubling) stories in technology revolved around companies making huge sums of money. While we're all for folks making money, when they do so by screwing customers, we've got a problem. What's going on here?
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Apple Spokesperson Rebuts E-Books Price-Fixing Allegations
BY Joe White on Thu April 12th, 2012
A couple of days ago, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple, and a number of other publishers, regarding alleged e-books price-fixing. Now, Apple has commented on the matter, rebutting charges and firing back at both the Department of Justice, and Amazon.
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Sorry Apple, Amazon Announces Lower E-Book Prices Are Coming
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu April 12th, 2012
News yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice was going after Apple and two major publishers over alleged e-book price fixing must have been like Christmas day at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington. In fact, after the DOJ announced its plans, Amazon celebrated by announcing that their e-book prices would soon begin to fall.
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Updated: U.S. Government Files Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers Over Alleged E-Book Price Fixing
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed April 11th, 2012
The U.S. Justice Department today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five of the nation’s largest publishers. The government alleges that the parties conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Amazon Officially Enters In-App Purchase Market
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue April 10th, 2012
As expected, Amazon is joining Apple and Google in offering their mobile customers the ability to make in-app purchases. The world’s largest online retailer’s in-app purchase marketplace arrives today for customers and developers.
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Amazon's Ecosystem Growing Up, As Company Prepares To Offer In-App Purchases
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue April 03rd, 2012
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, could soon enter the highly profitable in-app purchase market, according to Bloomberg News.
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Apple Says There Is No e-Book Pricing ‘Conspiracy’
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Fri March 09th, 2012
In a new court filing, Apple says that it just wants to sell eBooks in the company’s iBookstore and has absolutely no incentive to drive up prices. The claim comes as Apple hopes to have a class action lawsuit over eBook price fixing thrown out, according to iPaidContent.org.
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Amazon's Kindle Sales Figures Are Disappointing Compared To Apple's iOS Device Sales
BY Joe White on Thu December 29th, 2011
Amazon recently announced that it expects to have sold over four million Kindle devices in December. Though this figure might sound impressive, on just one day (Christmas Day) Apple saw an estimated 4.2 million iOS device activations, suggesting that Amazon has a long way to go before it can catch up with the cool cats in Cupertino, CA.
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AppAdvice Gift-Guide: Unique iOS Gifts
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu December 08th, 2011
Our Gift-Guide series continues today as we look at some of the more unique gifts available for iOS. Enjoy!
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This Saturday, Amazon Is Offering Customers Another Reason To Buy From Them, Not From Brick And Mortar Stores
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue December 06th, 2011
Amazon on Saturday, December 10, will “incentivize” shoppers in brick and mortar stores to buy from them instead, by offering an additional five percent off of qualifying products. This incentive, which was first reported by 9 To 5 Mac, will be offered to those folks using Amazon’s Price Check app.
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Top AppAdvice News And Apps Of The Past Week
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Sun November 20th, 2011
The Kindle Fire better than the iPad? George Clooney as Steve Jobs? iOS 5.1 arriving soon? These and other questions were (almost) answered during the week that was.
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The AppAdvice Kindle Fire Review
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu November 17th, 2011
Until this week, the Apple iPad largely defined the emergent tablet market. Starting this week, however, that is almost certainly going to change, with the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which arrives on the scene at less than half the cost of the iPad 2.
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