iOS News for iPhone and iPad Owners

According to Gizmodo, ATT and Apple are trying to work on an Apple app for "tethering" your iPhone service to a regular mac -- in other words, using the phone to provide internet connectivity to the desktop.

Tagged: tethering iPhone

According to the Android Developers Blog Google is working on a version of App Store for the Android platform, dubbed the "Android Market".

Tagged: Android Market

Got this when trying to download the free app Hanoi. My credit rating must have taken a swift and substantial turn for the worse.

According to tech news site tomsguide, analysts are increasing their estimates for iPhone3g sales (and mac) across the board.

The 3G is my first iPhone.  So I've been honeymooning since early July.  But now I'm seeing larger issues.  One gripe (besides lousy connectivity,  now the subject of a class action lawsuit) is that apps don't interoperate.

Our friends at PosiMotion clued us in to the upcoming release of GolfFlyOver, an app that gives you a bird's-eye view of any of 12,000 golf courses they have in their database.

Tagged: golf courses, Google maps

Friend of AppCraver Bill Trost of dev shop The Blimp Pilots checked in to let us know that Koi Pond 2.0 has been released.

In this side by side test done by iPhonebuzz, the new firmware 2.02 (available since yesterday) is significantly faster in every way to the previous 2.01 version. While not scientific, the video is convincing.

Apple describes the update as "Bug Fixes". No word yet on whether this fixes any of the 3g connectivity issues. Appcraver: No noticible speed difference, but given the fragility of the software, we recommend the install.

According to the Washington Post, one of Appcraver's absolute favorite applications, Pandora, is on the verge of shutting down. "We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. "This is like a last stand for webcasting.

Tagged: Internet radio

Chris Pirillo, a veteran internet commentator and organizer of the "Gnomdex" conference has launched a version of digg specifically for iPhone apps at iphone.lockergnome.com.

Tagged: Digg

Lots of discussion of iPhone at the latest TechCrunch / August Capital Mobile Conference. Some key facts: Pandora was running at about 12,000 new subscribers a month. In the first month on iPhone, 320,000  Pandora apps were downloaded.

According to MacWorld, Best Buy will start selling the iPhone3G in September in over 970 full size stores.

Good god - Super Monkey Ball has sold 300,000 units on the iPhone App Store in 20 days. I think you'll be seeing a lot more game developers taking the iPhone seriously in the months to come.

"Comprehensive" video review of the "I Am Rich" iPhone application (the cracked version, that is).