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Thinking about upgrading your iPad or iPhone just to add more storage for videos, photos and music? Kingston hopes to save the day with its Wi-Drive, a WiFi-enabled battery-powered storage device designed exclusively for use with iOS. Several factors make the pocket-sized device a tough sell, however, including its cost ($130 for 16GB, $175 for 32GB), and the fact that this otherwise clever content sharing contraption adds yet another gadget to your already crowded portable mix. We’d probably save up for a new, higher-capacity device before accessorizing our old gadgets, but a compact media server does seem like the perfect companion for a road trip, serving up HD videos and other content simultaneously to multiple devices using the free iOS app. This is strictly a content server — while you can move move content off the drive and later transfer it back, there’s no backup tool included, and Kingston says we shouldn’t expect one in the future, either. Click past the break for our impressions of Kingston’s flash-based server, due to hit stores later this month.

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This article was written on August 11, 2008 by CyberNet.

The Wall Street Journal recently sat down with Steve Jobs to see how things are going with the newly released App Store. As expected, things are going really well. In the past month that the App Store has been available to iPhone and iPod Touch users, more than 60 million applications have been downloaded. Of course many of those are free, but many have a price tag attached which means developers are making money. Apple is making money too with the 30% that they take, but Steve Jobs pointed out that much of that goes simply towards operating costs.

If we break down the number of apps that have been downloaded, we’ll see that they are slowly declining. Keep in mind that the iPhone 3G will be launching in several new countries on August 22nd which means sales could pick right back-up again.

• Day one through day 3: 10 million apps downloaded – approximately 3.3 million apps downloaded each day on average
• Day four through day 10: an additional 15 million apps downloaded – approximately 2.1 million apps downloaded each day on average
• Day eleven through day thirty: an additional 35 million apps downloaded – 1.75 million apps downloaded each day on average

Paid apps have brought in about $1 million dollars in sales per day. The Wall Street Journal says that if they stay at the current pace, Apple is set to make about $360 million in revenue from the App Store over a year’s time. Developers are making some decent money as well. Probably the best example of a successful game is Super Monkey Ball which has been downloaded over 300,000 times in 20 days. This means Super Monkey Ball alone has brought in $3 million.

Clearly the App Store was a smart move for Apple. During the interview, Steve jobs talked about what has set the iPhone apart from others. He said, “Phone differentiation used to be about radios and antennas and things like that. We think, going forward, the phone of the future will be differentiated by software.” Software has definitely been a big part of what has made the iPhone successful.

It looks as though T-Mobile may see what Steve Jobs does, that the phone of the future will be differentiated by software. Rumor has it that T-Mobile is preparing their own app store for the new phones they will be launching. While Apple’s App Store is only for the iPhone, T-Mobile’s store would be for multiple phones.

Source: Mac Rumors

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Are you sick of hearing from Lodsys? We know devs are, but the rather outspoken patent troll is at it again, hitting the blog to defend its good name. Hidden among today’s posts is an announcement that the firm is taking the next steps with its accusations, filing a lawsuit against some of the developers it previously targeted and, get this, blaming Apple. It explains: “Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple’s threat, in order to preserve its legal options.” We’re not sure which developers are targeted by this suit, specifically, but the firm has promised a $1,000 payment to each dev, “if it turns out that the scope of Apple’s existing license rights apply to fully license you with respect to our claim relating to your App on Apple iOS.” Devs may be tempted to spend that promised gift on a well-deserved vacation (or a WWDC conference pass), but with layers of LLCs protecting the man behind the curtain at Lodsys, we wouldn’t be surprised it the firm disappeared before anyone sees a cent (or 99) of payment. Unfortunately, it appears that the saga continues, so if you’ve had enough of the patent troll, feel free to enjoy the rest of our content, Lodsys free.

[Thanks, Andrew]

Update: We’ve been told that the list of devs named in the lawsuit include: Combay, Iconfactory, Illusion Labs, Shovelmate, Quickoffice, Richard Shinderman, and Wulven Game Studios.

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Apple's iWork will now be compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Photo courtesy Apple

By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

Apple announced on Tuesday that it has updated its iWork productivity suite for iOS with universal versions compatible with both the iPhone and iPod Touch. Though originally released for the larger iPad, you can now use the iOS-flavored iWork to create and edit word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files on Apple’s pocket-sized mobile devices.

iWork includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Apple developed iPad versions when the device was originally launched in April 2010. When we reviewed the apps then, we noted that the iPad’s 10-inch touchscreen worked pretty well and that Apple had done a fairly impressive job of translating the desktop apps to its tablet. However, we also warned that its formatting limitations, awkward file access and inability to print were likely to be serious problems for most users.

Apple has since improved file access a bit by adding iDisk support and adding AirPrint to iOS, which allows wireless printing to a select few HP printers. And while Apple has apparently done a lot of work to shoehorn iWork’s iPad interface onto the 3.5-inch screen of the iPhone, users are likely to run into those same limitations we outlined last year.

You can open files created in the Mac version of iWork or corresponding Microsoft Office applications, edit them, and even send the changes back to the desktop. However, formatting can get bungled in the process, and performing anything other than minor edits using the iPhone or iPod Touch’s tiny keyboard would probably give even the most ardent smartphone typist a headache. Comments from Apple SVP Phil Schiller also suggest the small-screen versions only work with Retina display devices, which means compatibility is limited to the iPhone 4 and fourth-gen iPod Touch. (Apple has not responded to our request for clarification on that point as of publication time.)

Still, the ability to edit Office-type documents right from your phone is pretty impressive in and of itself, and we imagine it could come in handy in emergency situations. We think Apple went in the right direction by building universal apps, so users who already have the iPad versions can get the new iPhone version as a free update.

All three updated apps — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — are available now in the App Store for $9.99 each, or as a free update to existing users.

See Also:

• Apple Leaks iWork for iPhone
• iWork for iPhone is Coming: Pages Gets a Closeup

It’s been available on the iPad since that device launched, and now Apple has finally brought its iWork suite of productivity apps to the iPhone and iPod touch. That, of course, includes Keynote, Pages and Numbers, which are all now universal apps that run the same $9.99 apiece as their iPad-only predecessors — current users can simply upgrade for free, thankfully. Head on past the break for the complete press release.

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