According to WSJ, Apple is working on cheaper iphones so as to enter into to mid-price range smartphones market.  This market is dominated mainly

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by android powered mobiles .

With more mobile phones makers going android, it will soon become the dominant player. Sensing this Apple is all set to launch cheap phones.

It is quite strange as Apple products are usually expensive which makes it quite elitist, generating unprecedented fan craze. Cnet puts it aptly “Is Apple no longer the BMW of tech?”

This has been done so as to halt Google’s march. Remember, Google is planning to start music store, another Apple territory.

Apple insist that it won’t cut down the features available in the current phones for cheaper phones, so only thing they might do to save costs is reduce the hardware specs. But this would give rise to fragmentation as many apps which require specific specification won’t work on it, which has also become a bane for Android.

It will be interesting to see if consumers of this range who are usually tech-savvy would buy an iPhone over an Android.

If you are planning a crime make sure you don’t carry Apple’s  iPhone or the iPad.

Why? They can trace your location and and are willing to share it. It will help the advertisers to send targeted ads to you.

You can opt-out targeted ads if you wish to do so but not out of their location tracking.

The updated privacy policy for mac, iphone and ipad excerpt from ilounge

Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out by accessing the following link on your device: http://oo.apple.com. If you opt out, you will continue to receive the same number of mobile ads, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests. You may still see ads related to the content on a web page or in an application or based on other non-personal information. This opt-out applies only to Apple advertising services and does not affect interest-based advertising from other advertising networks.

Please note that even though this affects all Apple products, it is particularly useful on on its mobile devices like the iPhone and the iPad.

With Apple about to announce its latest revolutionary product – the Tablet PC, its share value and earnings is bound to rise several times. But importantly, it will help many freelance programmers earn a fortune by developing apps for it.

iPhone apps are developed in Objective C.  However, there is an python implementation too. According to Wikipedia, Objective C is used only on Apple’s Mac OS x and iPhone OS.

Now with a tablet PC being added to its stable, the developers will have more flexibility and CPU power than the iPhone to develop killer apps. Already it is rumoured that the print media is looking forward to find a way to generate revenue from tablet PC.

So what is objective c? It is an OOP language which adds smalltalk like messaging to C. Here is a Primer on the language from apple and more detailed here.

Do you know the language? How do you find it?

According to research carried out by app store analytics company Distimo, the majority of sales taking place in the App Store are for games, while Android users are buying more tools and applications.

Studying the top 15 paid applications  for the iPhone, the report found nine of them were games, while not even one game made the top 15 on the Android chart. To balance that, not one productivity or utilities app appeared in Apple’s top 15.

This pattern continues for free games as well. One important point from the report is Classic games on Android Market are more popular than in the Apple App Store, with even 3 out of the 15 most popular games for Android being emulators. These types of emulators are not allowed in the Apple App Store.

If you are a developer you can sign up for developing apps for iphone and android.