For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz â the four-year-old business news publication owned by Atlantic Media â was going to be completely blank when you opened it up. "The whole thing was just notifications," Zach Seward, Quartz's executive editor and VP of product, tells The Verge. "The thought was that this would tell you, like, this is an app meant to be consumed entirely outside the square icon."...
In May of last year, I posed a question on Twitter: Do you ever get the feeling that everyone at Medium is drunk? My question had been inspired by the latest release notes for the publishing platformâs iOS app, which had taken the form of a poem:...
I missed the era of cinematic newsreels by several decades, so I've mostly seen the concept deployed in fiction, where it signals an earlier era when stentorian male voices delivered thinly veiled propaganda to awed, passive audiences. The New York Times' latest experiment with virtual reality â a nine-minute video called The Contender that follows four of our current presidential candidates through their campaign rallies â is not propaganda, nor is it narrated by a man of any voice type. But "VR...
Microsoft just quietly launched yet another experimental iOS app.
Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering…
News stepped to a fast pace at the beginning of 2016, with numerous rumors about the iPhone 7, and worries about Apple's stock price and the prospects for iPhone 6s sales.
Whether visiting family, off on vacation or spending some quiet time at home for Christmas, chances are you'll have an iPhone or iPad at your side. AppleInsider offers together a list of critically acclaimed and family-friendly iOS games to make the season bright.
A look at the best educational apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.
AppleInsider is trying to find the best news app for iOS. Vote for your favorite app and we'll tell you the winner next week.
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Readbug’s pitch to its target indie magazine publishers is the chance to increase their digital reach without having to do any extra work or spend any extra money themselves. And its pitch to hipsters is all-you-can eat access to their favorite aspirational reads for a Spotify style monthly fee.
This week's list includes a social news app, an app to take 3D selfies and an app to browse travel videos.
Last month, The New York Times announced that it would be shipping Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets to all its print subscribers (and shipping redeemable coupons to a few of its digital-only subscribers). Those headsets won't start showing up until this weekend, but the NYT VR mobile app is now available on Apple's App Store and the Google Play store. Viewers without Google Cardboard will be able to view its contents as flatscreen 360-degree videos, and a modified desktop version is also...
A company called NewsON launched today, offering cord cutters and mobile consumers access to local news with an app that works on iOS, Android, and Roku devices. The service, which is financially backed by a cohort of TV stations, claims to offer local news coverage across 75 percent of the U.S., including video content from a total of 118 stations in 90 markets.The launch comes at a time…
This week's list includes an intelligent shopping assistant, a new social trivia game and a major update to Waze's navigation app.
Apple released significant updates for iOS, OS X, and watchOS this week, but ran into serious issues in China, even as it tried to put a positive spin on its environmental efforts there.
Apple this week made surprise announcements of new iMacs, Mac accessories and iWork updates, but also found itself in the spotlight for less enjoyable reasons, including lawsuits and problems with its online services.
This week saw Apple honor Steve Jobs on the fourth anniversary of his death, and simultaneously make a series of small-scale product announcements, while putting out fires related to iPhone battery life and iOS security.
Talking about podcasts, podcast network Relay FM released an iOS app today to showcase its 17 shows for creative, curious and obsessive people. It’s a polished app with gorgeous animated artworks. It’s great to discover the network and then subscribe to a few shows in your favorite podcast app.
Overcast, The Verge's pick for best iPhone / iPad podcast app, received a big update today. Most notably, some features that previously required an in-app purchase are now free for everyone to use. "Iâd rather have you using Overcast for free than not using it at all, and I want everyone to be using the good version of Overcast," developer Marco Arment wrote in a blog post. According to Arment, only about 20 percent of Overcast users opted for the in-app purchase that unlocked the app's best features...
So, you've downloaded iOS 9, now what? Update all your apps, of course.
This week's launch of iOS 9 also marked the debut of optional content (read: mobile ad) blockers in Apple's Safari browser. The ensuing firestorm has led to a highly emotional debate over intrusive and annoying ads, versus the need for online publishers to make money in order to stay afloat.
Apple chose to highlight AppleInsider content in its new News app at this year's WWDC keynote, so it should come as no surprise that you can add us as a source in News after updating your iPhone or iPad to iOS 9.
An early morning tweet from one of Apple's official accounts suggests that the App Store will be a major focus of today's special event, lending support to long-running rumors that the marketplace would expand to an all-new Apple TV.
Twitter's Periscope platform will come to the next-generation Apple TV in the form of a third-party app, to be available for download on the device's dedicated App Store, a new report reveals.
