Street Fighter IV for iPhone went live last night at the GDC Capcom Fight Club in San Francisco and is in the App Store for all you budding pocket fighters. First impressions are, it’s a fantastic representation of Street Fighter IV on the iPhone, but playing it without buttons is a bit of a mission.

Check it out for yourselves [iTunes Link] for the not so little £5.99/$9.99.

In the past, Macs have definitely gotten the shaft from game developers, opting to program their games for Windows instead, leaving Mac users out in the cold. But recently, with the ability for Mac users to run Windows through Boot Camp, that has slowly been changed. And now, it seems as game developer Valve is ready to make an announcement that Mac enthusiasts have been waiting for. (more…)

More and more news about innocent iPhone apps being taken down because Apple is too scared to put any type of nudity on the iTunes store. Simply Beach’s swimwear catalog iPhone app was one of the 5,000 apps to be taken down over the last weekend.  Again, no fair warning from Apple.  Just a “no app store for you” e-mail.  Now, I understand that having sexy photos on your app could lead to pornography. But a swimwear catalog? Yes, there are girls in bikini’s on it, but this is going way too far. Where will it end? Oh, right. It’ll end if you have a multi-million dollar company or an app with hot girls in burqas.

Got photos in your iPhone app that depict women in sexy bikini’s with big boobs? Well, check your e-mail.  You might have a notice from Apple saying that have removed your app from the app store. Why? Because of Apple’s revision to their app guidelines.

The App Store continues to evolve, and as such, we are constantly refining our guidelines. Your application contains content that we had originally believed to be suitable for distribution. However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately.

Oh no! Women in bikinis! I’m scared this will ruin my child’s life! Seriously, who are these people that complain about this? I’m not sure if these people know but there is a parental control system in iTunes and the iPhone to stop your “innocent” child from downloading these apps.

Now, if you search the iTunes store, you’d think that all Bikini related apps have been removed because of these new guidelines. Nope. After searching for apps using the keywords bikini or sexy, the search results came back with: Kim Kardashian photo app, Playboy app, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit App, Bikini Surfing App, and Terror at Bikini Beach.

So, the bottom line is that if you already have a well established name or the women are animated big-boobed characters in bikinis, your app is A-OK. Geeze, Apple, get it together.  It’s just like that South Park episode with Tom Cruise in the closet.  “Either everything is ok to make fun of, or nothing.” So, in this cause, either all Bikini apps are ok, or no Bikini apps are ok. No gray lines.

When the iPad debuted it wasn’t exactly universally praised. Many people derided it as a giant iPod touch, and the name. I mean apple has made few mistakes since the first gen iPod’s but come on. Don’t they do testing to see if the name is going to fly?How could they not see it coming? So with all the backlash it was only a matter of time till someone took their anger at the iPad itself. And Daniel Tosh is that man.  Now, personally I would have gone with a baseball bat bat but to each his own I guess.

Another week another Apple story, this time it might even interest to those students amongst us. Several textbook publishers have signed on to distribute their wares via a company called ScrollMotion, who are the folks behind the Iceburg Reader on the iPhone. The deal includes McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K-12, Pearson Education and Kaplan Inc, with others said to be in talks. Could this see the iPad becoming the one student-friendly device to rule them all? Unless you’re willing to pay through the nose for electronic copies of these textbooks, I doubt it. But you have to admit textbooks on a device like the iPad is an attractive thought. Let’s just hope they get the text search done right, so you don’t have to sift through pages upon pages of irrelevant rubbish to find that golden paragraph you’ve been looking for. (more…)

There has been a ton of discussion surrounding the iPad concerning both negative and positive impressions. Well let me be one those few whom throw a little more fire into the negative side of things against the gigantic iPod touch device.

Last week Steve Jobs wow’d the rows and tiers of fanboy’s with the “Apple Tablet” starting at $499 when it had been rumored for so long to be closer to a $1000 smackaroo’s. Depending on whom you speak with, this is a great price however still overly priced compared to most netbooks running fully functioning yet productive operating systems.

Here’s the kicker, according to Computerworld, Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AMTech estimates that the cost of goods inside a 16gb Wi-F0 only iPad totals $270.50. This would mean that Apple would make an estimated $208 on every 16gb iPad sold. Of course this doesn’t compensate the R&D, manufacturing, and other added value costs. It would certainly have one thinking if this is really something worth purchasing during an economical down swing.

[via Tom's Hardware]

During the opening of the 52nd Grammys, leader of the Colbert Nation, Stephen Colbert, whips out a real iPad.  This officially makes him the coolest kid on the block.  Even if he was just loaned one and not given one, to pull one out in front of America without wearing a black turtle neck and jeans gives you a lot of geek cred.

Pee Wee is now one of the first people to get the new Apple iPad. Congratulations to him, he gets to experience what it’s like to walk around with an over sized iPod Touch.