Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, Multimedia, iTunes

I coulda told you this, though I am a little surprised that we've seen the results so fast. Despite iTunes having put the new tiered pricing into effect just last week, Billboard is reporting that they've already seen sales drop on the higher-priced tunes. The iTunes Top 100 chart has 40 different songs with a new price of $1.29, and one day after the changes, those songs dropped an average of 5.3 places on the chart, while cheaper songs moved up on average. And on the second day of the price change, ten of the tracks that saw their prices rise within 24 hours dropped a huge 12.4 chart positions on average.

Of course, we're talking only a matter of days here, and there are all kinds of things that could have affected this average drop -- lots of the tracks that became expensive were from a Rascal Flatts album, and it could be just that the album has lost popularity, bringing the average down. And don't forget that even though these sales figures may be dropping, they haven't dropped nearly enough to show a loss of revenue (though fewer songs may be selling, they're still making more money).

But for those convinced that higher prices mean lower sales numbers, these first few days of figures will seem to connect all of the right dots. We'll have to wait and see if the long-term effects match up to the figures Billboard has seen so far.

TUAWBillboard: iTunes prices up, sales down originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iPhone is gaining momentum in the enterprise market, according to a new research report from Forrester.

Ecco le primissime immagini del gioco Assassin’s Creed per iPhone ed iPod Touch che verrà rilasciato a breve in AppStore da Gameloft

La grafica è già ottima e i controlli sembrano simili a quelli di Hero Of Sparta e potremo controllare il personaggio con la massima libertà.

Attendiamo davvero con ansia questo gioco!

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Il gioco Assassin’s Creed, diventato un must-have su Xbox e PS3, tra poco sbarcherà anche su iPhone. Esso sarà ispirato alla versione per Nintendo DS: Altair’s Chronicles. Ecco i primi screenshot direttamente da IGN

Nel gioco ci impersoneremo in Altair, il protagonista, e attraverso il comodo touchscreen scaleremo muri, ci nasconderemo dalle guardie e sconfiggeremo i nostri nemici.

Come vedete la battaglia sembra ben strutturata; con i controlli ai lati dello schermo.

La grafica, che già ora non è niente male, verrà migliorata prima del rilascio ufficiale previsto per le prossime settimane.

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Find and see what other coffee drinkers are drinking and doing through Twitter using Coffee Buzz. Price: $.99 Download This App Developers Website

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, iPhone

Twitter is many things to many people. Some folks use it to keep up with friends or the latest news; others make it their primary tool for online coversation. There exists, however, within the throng of Twitter users, a group of people who use Twitter as the stage from which they deliver their own special brand of humor.

For these types, a tweet isn't something that's typed and quickly posted a few seconds later -- it's a chance to make his/her followers chuckle. To that end, they take great care to ensure that each tweet is finely honed and worded to deliver the maximum amount of gag within the 140-character limit. Birdhouse is an application for these people.

Dubbed by its creators as "A Notepad for Twitter," Birdhouse isn't your typical Twitter client. Instead of reading, replying to and favoriting your buddies' tweets, it focuses on composition. Got an idea for a really hilarious joke? Plug the idea into Birdhouse, then come back to it when you have time. Tweak and refine it until you've got just what you want, and hit publish.

There's no hard limit to the number of drafts you can keep at once, and it maintains a timestamped history of all of the tweets you've published. You can rate each message using a 5-star system, and it also allows you to email yourself a complete list of all pending and published tweets in case you're staring at the business end of an iPhone restore and you don't want to lose that truly golden mom joke you've been working on.

Birdhouse [App Store] is available now for $3.99US.

TUAWLet your tweets incubate with Birdhouse for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Un giornale cinese ha pubblicato un’interessante notizia relativa al fatto che Apple avrebbe ordinato 4 milioni di iPhone da consegnare entro fine giugno. I nuovi modelli, inoltre, sarebbero ben 3.

A scriverlo è il New China Times e le fonti sono proprio le società e le aziende incaricate di consegnare le varie componenti dell’iPhone. Tali componenti, come tra l’altro vi abbiamo anticipato, dovrebbero essere in consegna proprio in questi giorni.

In pratica l’obiettivo della Apple sarebbe quello di distribuire nei negozi il nuovo iPhone entro gli ultimi giorni giugno.

Lo stesso giornale precisa che i nuovi modelli di iPhone saranno tre: due destinati ai mercati internazionali (un Edge e un 3G) e l’altro pensato appositamente per la Cina (senza alcune funzioni, come il WiFi, proibite per legge nel territorio cinese).

I nuovi modelli avranno le stesse dimensioni di quello attuale, per cui è esclusa la presentazione di un iPhone Nano.

Come sempre in questi casi, siamo nel campo delle mere voci che nulla hanno di ufficiale e che, soprattutto per la parte dei 3 modelli, trovo alquanto improbabili.

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