Interesting iPhone Game Concept (UPDATED)

This just shows how cool games can get on the iPhone platform.

UDPATE: This app is real, and you can download it for free in the App Store.

Tweetie 2: Is it worth it?

Tweetie 2 was approved by Apple and got into the App Store yesterday. Now, many people are complaining about the super affordable $3 price tag. C’mon people. This developer, Loren Brichter, spent months working on this app. Software takes time and money to develop. So stop complaining. It’s only $3. I usually don’t pay for apps–I’ve only bought three apps since I got my iPod touch–but Tweetie 2 is such a well-designed app that it deserved my $3.

So what’s new? According to Loren Brichter, Tweetie 2 is a brand new app, based on a brand new, super efficient and speedy core called “Bigbird.” What’s that for the user? It puts Tweetie 2 ahead of all other Twitter cleints for the iPhone. Here’s just some things that it can do:

• An awesome UI. Super smooth scrolling; swipe over a tweet to reveal options, refresh your feed with a gesture…
• Full offline browsing. Yep. Tweetie 2 lets you compose tweets, read tweets, everything–all offline. Everything is seamlessly cached, even avatars.
• Persistence. If you quit the app, it opens instantly back to where you were the next time you open it.
• Post photos and videos with any service you want: TwitPic, yFrog, TweetPhoto, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, Posterous, img.ly, TwitVid…
• Shorten URLs with any service you want: j.mp, bit.ly, TinyURL, is.gd, l.pr, u.nu, Linkyy…
• Geotag your tweets.
• Draft tweets so that you can send them later.
• Threaded Direct Messages that make it look like a conversation.
• View nearby tweets and see what’s around you.
• Live filter your stream. Using the iPhone 3.0 SDK’s live search technology, you can instantly search for anything in your stream.
• Landscape support everywhere: composing tweets, reading tweets, etc.
• and much more…

A gallery of what Tweetie 2 can do is after the break.

iPhone Case Study Video

Here’s a quick summary of the iPhone App Store and SDK.

Be sure to read the full study or check out the shortened version! Also check out other videos I have made here.

The App Store hits 1 Billion Downloads

As I predicted, Apple’s App Store hit one billion downloads today and shows a nice friendly picture of a bunch of apps flowing into an iPhone. Good for you, Apple! Also, Apple reformatted their Thanks a Billion page to show the Top 20 Apps of All Time without opening iTunes.

Dictionary.com for iPhone

Dictionary.com just released a new iPhone app! It’s totally free and does not need Internet access to look up words. There’s also a thesaurus, word of the day, and audio pronunciations. The app is around 40 MB.