My MacBerry

A new app from Amazon lets you take a pic of anything, and supposedly buy it from Amazon.  I’ll have to try this one and see how well it really works.  Oh, and the comments following the article are pretty interesting too.

http://gizmodo.com/5101308/amazon-iphone-app-lets-you-buy-anything-you-take-a-picture-of

It appears that SnapTell already does something similar, so it’ll be interesting to see whose works better.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/snaptell-instant-product-lookup-from-the-iphone-you-want-this/

This article linked below appears to be the beginning in a series of posts to analyze the App Store data and find out what types of applications, pricing, etc. correlate with the popularity and profitability of an app.  So far we know that the killer application category is games, of course.  Surprisingly, in spite of there being a level playing field for independent developers and big companies alike, the established gaming companies seem to be dominant in this category.  I’m looking forward to seeing what other inferences can be made from this data…

http://www.mobileorchard.com/price-and-popularity-the-iphone-app-stores-data-shows-whos-making-the-big-money/

It looks like Linux is finally running on the iPhone! A lot more work lies ahead for those guys to see if/when it’ll ever be a viable alternative to the iPhone’s own slimmed down version of OS X.  It would be good to see Android running on there at some point.  Kudos to the hard work put into it so far.

http://www.crn.com/software/212201156?cid=ChannelWebBreakingNews

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081201-linux-iphone-port-could-pave-the-way-for-android.html