You weep for your i-phone app, and you curse the frac crews.
Looking back on it now, the first time I truly felt the need for a note-taking app was when I started researching note-taking apps.
For example, I use a task management system on my computer - can I write an app to make this easier on Glass?
In cases where photos were required, I tapped an in-app camera icon to open the iPhone camera.
Shortly thereafter, i-Free Innovations pulled the now-useless app from the iTunes store.
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Am I giving the NY Giants app a shout-out because I want to royally tick off Eagles, Cowboys Redskins and Jets fans?
The internet browser -- I do believe that app did some damage.
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I'm not tied to an ecosystem and I don't care about app libraries or anything else -- I just need the best email phone on the market.
In several instances, Facebook's in-app notifications were delayed and only appeared when I opened the Facebook app.
Along with the Facebook and Skype issues, I found that a health-tracking app and a Sudoku app didn't work well.
Opt-in leads are the more expensive type, and I would classify someone downloading the Instagram app as a high-value lead for Facebook.
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When I noticed that my wife was taking pictures of her food in order to keep a record of how she was doing diet-wise I wondered if there was an app to make such data management easier.
This week, I tested a free iPad app that simplifies the book-creating process: KeepShot.
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Most if not all of the time, I was plugged into my satellite radio or my app-filled iPhone, which played a steady stream of commercial-free music catering to my tastes.
This is the app I show to all of my touchscreen keyboard-hesitant friends nervous about giving up the physical keyboard.
Verification took a full 25 seconds to timeout (compared to 5-15 seconds to grant access at lower levels, depending on lighting conditions), so using this app requires p-a-t-i-e-n-c-e.
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In short, there's no way I'd consider using the iPhone if the only Google-made app in the iOS universe was a search program.
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There will always be a place for native apps and app stores, but increasingly, I think that high-performance HTML5 apps that are discoverable through simple search will be ascendent.
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In short, there's no way I'd consider using the iPhone if the only Google-made app in the iOS universe was a search program. (Yes, that's the case in Windows Phone -- just a single Google app.) The iPhone would still have sold millions, sure, but one has to wonder how much less impactful it would've been without Google pushing its apps into the App Store.
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"I like the ING security, but I don't trust these app makers, " said the 41-year-old systems administrator in New York.
It was about this topic that I called Cyriac Roeding, the co-founder and CEO of mobile-shopping app Shopkick and an angel investor in Silicon Valley.
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Touch Bionics said its "i-limb ultra revolution" product could be controlled by a new "biosim" app.
It works by using myriad user info, including location, web browsing and mobile app usage data "to create specific insights" -- i.e.
If GPS bracelets become widespread, I hope someone develops a smartphone map app that lets you see all the bracelet-wearing criminals in your area.
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No multiple Google calendars in the Metro Calendar app, which meant I initially had to run my calendar in a mouse-demanding Chrome window.
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But Ryan Orbuch, who I met this past spring, has delivered on his promise to perfect the to-do app, and it launches today.
There is now new technology emerging that helps you create a Facebook-like social media platform that you host, which I predict will become the next killer app.
The first step in designing a great mobile enterprise app is to provide a small subset of task-oriented functions, and I believe that enterprise developers should start by designing micro apps and then add functionality as needed.
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Part of the reason I made the jump to Evernote full- time after using it in conjunction with Simplenote was the top-notch Android app.
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