As two of the biggest companies connecting people in today’s world, it comes as no surprise that Facebook and Apple, the maker of the iPhone, would be a match made in heaven for many of today’s users who enjoy socializing via digital means. The Facebook app for the iPhone has now been reported to have more than 100 million users who make use of it each month. Of the more than 150 million users making use of Facebook via mobile devices each month, the iPhone’s share is definitely high. This bodes well for both Apple and Facebook who are looking to further expand their demographics, but some insiders have anonymously told the press that well over half of the usage of apps on the iPhone actually comes from the Facebook user base. Of course, given the condition of anonymity, this data can’t be confirmed by the media and is seen as being extremely sensitive for both companies at present. If true, this would mean these two services are most likely striking the same user demographic, experts have said. The latest version of the iPhone’s Facebook app includes new features such as Places which is only for users in the United States right now, but allows these users to post their location so that their friends know where they are.
The new update for the iPhone also lets users more specifically define the privacy settings they would like and allows for threads in their inbox that can include multiple users at the same time.
In a move that has totally taken app experts and critics alike by surprise, the Major League Baseball’s At Bat app for iPhone has not only come out in a new incarnation for the latest upcoming season, this time it is priced at a level that many find utterly impossible to believe: $14.99 for a single download. Even though it is so expensive, it has actually climbed to number 8 on the iTunes charts as proof that baseball’s popularity is alive and well in the United States. In fact, baseball fans will be able to get so much from this particular app that they are gladly paying the price in order to be able to get the streaming audio versions of the games, particularly since the sounds can keep playing while the user does other things on their iPhone. One live video of a game per day are another major incentive for those who have not gone for the MLB.tv package.
As the iPhone continues to become a valuable educational tool in the hands of many users who are leveraging its potential for information delivery, many have decided to create apps that will raise the bar and offer full source guides to a variety of subjects. One of the companies doing this is Indigo Publications who have recently released their five dollar Reef Fish Hawaii app that covers more than one hundred and fifty nine different species of fish that are native to the Hawaiian islands and surrounding areas. For snorkelers, this is a dream come true because it allows them to expand their knowledge of the local sea life in a quick and easy way. A free version is offered that will show case some of the fish in the area, but it is not nearly as in depth as the paid version which is far more comprehensive in both listings and content.
Apple iPhone users have long been looking for a simple way to be able to edit images on their phone and that is what propelled Savoy Software, developers of Liquid Scale, to develop a package that would allow users of both the iPhone and the iPod Touch to be able to edit, hide or scale their photos so that they can edit them to their favorite social media sites right away and use the photos as part of the networking interface offered there. The package was designed to be very user friendly and completely simple to use, making uses of the touch screen and a rapid editing system that would be able to be used intuitively to cut images down to size and adjust them for the proper specifics needed for whatever site users wanted to send them to.