Spotify may be one of the quickest growing and most popular music streaming services racing around the globe. Well designed and fun/easy to navigate it is not. If only this fantastic UI concept designed by Dribbble user Maxwell Barvian could be implemented… Let’s just say, if Spotify looked like this on a Mac, we’d grimace a lot less every time we fired it up. Thoughts? Check out Maxwell’s other work on his Dribbble account right over...
Since Apple first picked up Placebase, a mapping company, in 2009, rumors have run wild pointing to the eventual killing of Google Maps. Again in 2010, Apple scooped up another mapping company, Poly9. Finally, again in late 2011, Apple acquired mapping company (this time a 3D mapping company) C3, which (yet) again fueled speculation that Google Maps’ days on iOS were numbered. Today, 9to5Mac...
Sometime last year, Foxconn promised to change it’s conditions to further benefit it’s employees. In the past, Foxconn and Apple had been in the spotlight for the poor conditions that the factory workers were placed under. As of now, we aren’t entirely aware of what steps in that direction Foxconn has taken, but, today, Apple promises to lend a hand, financially. The public, still, isn’t quite clear on what the precise details of this arraignment...
Google and Apple may not be the biggest of friends, but that doesn’t mean Google can ignore their frenemy in Cupertino. Supporting iOS is a very important thing for Google to do, as while many people may eschew their in-house mobile platform, there is still plenty of cash to be made in online services spread across platforms. Today, the company pushed out their new 2.0 (2.0.0.5888 exactly) update for Google+ for iOS. And wow, what a change it brings. Every ounce of...
Image Source: The Verge The ongoing battle over nano-SIM designs is heating up. This week at CTIA, designs from both Nokia (and friends) as well as the Apple-led, backwards compatible version were shown off. Specifically, SIM card maker Giesecke & Devrient was waving the Apple designed nano-SIMs around giving us a good glimpse at what the near future will bring to SIM cards, and on a larger scale, mobile devices. The most surprising update to the whole story is that...
