App Anarchy

Posted on Thursday, 26th May 2011 by Keith James

According to a tweet by Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of Russian mobile phone blog Mobile-Review, the iPhone 3GS wont be receiving the IOS 5 update but the iPhone 4 will. You can almost take this as gospel as Mr. Murtazin is seldom wrong when predicting what Apple will do with the next generation of their IOS devices.

So is Apple trying to force you to upgrade (at least to the iPhone 4)? No, not at all. As any of you that updated your 3G iPhone to IOS 4 know, not all legacy hardware has the capability to run the latest software.  I never believed it was Apple’s intentions to cripple the 3G with IOS 4 software, but for all practical purposes it did. Trust me, it is no easy feat to roll back an iPhone update.

Now I love my 3GS. I never upgraded my phone to the 4. I’m kind of hard on phones and compared to the iPhone 4, the 3GS is almost military grade. I did upgrade my wife’s phone to the 4 and have had to replace 2 broken screens. Now I will have to upgrade to the iPhone 4S (I doubt if it will be a new phone but just a new chipset) just for development purposes.

So if you’re still rock’n the 3GS will you be upset if you are not able to update it to IOS 5? Leave me a comment and let me know if you think I’m wrong and it’s just Apple’s way of forcing you to buy a new phone.

You can find Eldar Murtazin’s tweet here.

Tags: 3GS, IOS 5
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Posted on Monday, 31st January 2011 by Keith James

While other app “marketplaces” seem like anything goes, Apple seems to have gotten it right. Except for one simple rule they left out. If you are going to give a five or a one star review to an app, you must leave a comment. There, that simple. If you feel that strongly let us and the developer know why.  My quick and not so scientific survey of app reviews indicate that those leaving the better reviews do leave comments. The one star reviews? Not so much.

So who cares? The apps are only a couple of bucks at most. The problem is there are so many good apps out there that should rise to the top but somehow don’t. Sure we got our Angry Birds.But is that best the app store has for us? Not by a long shot. There are great apps for everyone and every niche. There are also some pretty bad ones.

So next time you find one of these either great or terrible apps, do us all a favor. Write a review instead of just clicking a star. It won’t take but a minute of your time and Apple won’t have to make another rule.

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Posted on Tuesday, 11th January 2011 by Keith James

Well it finally had to happen. Verizon announced today that they would have their CDMA version of the iPhone and I renewed the App Anarchy website for another year.

The Verizon version varies slightly  in appearance to the AT&T version. Most notably the lack of the sim card slot on the Verizon model and the relocation of the antenna. Although many news sites and bloggers speculated that Steve Jobs would make an appearance, I had to say no way. Although Verizon is one of the worlds largest mobile carriers, the CEO of Apple doesn’t go to carrier events. Prior to the announcement of the event, I tweeted that AT&T stores had lowered the price of the iPhone 3GS to $49. I had to expect that the Verizon iPhone was imminent.

As for as AppAnarchy.com, you should (in an ideal world) have considerably more posts this year. They may not be the longest and I’ll really be counting on spell check.

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