TUAW's iPhone app: it's alive
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted August 28th 2009 6:26PM
posted August 28th 2009 6:26PM
Read - TUAW's post on the app
Read - iTunes link
posted August 28th 2009 6:26PM
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LOL @ James.
They didnt like your comment, I voted you up. :)
@James
when did this become /RAGE/ ?
+ for effort through.
Surely you mean /RAEG/. Also, gb299chan
I can't begin to tell you how excited I am...
Great app now wheres engadet app
So where's the engadget app?
Why get an app for TUAW or Engadget? An iPhone formatted webpage is better...
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Agreed, I would very much like an engadget app for Windows Mobile.
I would prefer Weblogs app instead, one that combines feeds from all the major Weblogs sources (e.g., Autoblog, Engadget, Joystiq, TUAW). I would hate to download and use app for every single one of them. RSS is what I use now, but TUAW app offers enough compelling feature to justify such app.
Completely agree, what's the deal Engadget?
I agree with nutmac, and not just because his name sounds funny.
Apple Weblog app.. Engadget app..
same difference
Yuo @NutMac's got it right. Hook us up!
I love how the iPhone can, according to the propaganda, browse the whole internet perfectly... and yet we need iPhone formatted versions of websites, and then apps to access those websites...
@Phoenix
Well, whether or not it runs the internet perfectly, I think it's more about convenience than anything. It'd probably be easier and faster than having to fire up the browser, enter the address, etc.
@Phoenix - the iPhone has no problem rendering both full (normal) webpages, and mobile-optimised webpages. Obviously, the mobile versions are usually smaller and therefore load quicker and with less impact on a non-unlimited data plan, while the full versions look and feel like the webpages on a desktop or laptop, so it is good to be able to choose. Browsers on other modern smartphones have an identical ability.
Sorry, did you actually have a point, or is completely missing the mark a pastime of yours?
when is engadget getting one?
If it's anything like their mobile page, I'll pass. TUAW isn't all that. For one thing, the mechanics of their blog is horrible, the comments system absolutely blows, and they NEVER reply to feedback. Aside from that, all their content is recycled from last weeks news. If I weren't too lazy to delete it from my rss feeds, I'm sure I wouldn't miss it. No thanks.
respectfully... respectfully, tuaw is terrible these days...
i have no idea what happened... before, tuaw was a good place to find out stuff about various apple tidbits... now, ever since erica sadun (who was excellent, and ORIGINAL) and scott mcnulty left or something, the articles are usually 2 days late to post something that other blogs have already posted, and 40% of the posts are about iphone apps. it's not even useful anymore, except for the occasional iphone app gem...
the posts are random and reek of poor journalism.
i mean... i understand that you guys would flame me, and i could just not read TUAW...
but I'm not bashing TUAW here... i'm just saying that they used to be SO much better... perhaps the engadget folks could give them a helping hand or something?
To be honest, I see no use of such app at all. It disgusts me the amount of random information that that site has and the shocking decision to create and app for a website that comes 2nd to Engadget, if not less.
Why aren't you guys working on an app for Engadget? It would be much more useful and relevant to everybody who loves technology news rather than an app to view many app reviews and just random, mostly rumors about Apple! When are you people going to stop this Apple craze and get back to your minds?
What a cheap act!
I unfortunately have to agree with this.
TUAW is horrible.
Yeah, as a Mac user and someone who likes to follow Apple a lot, TUAW is nigh-unreadable.
I have to agree that TUAW has been going downhill for a while now... Almost all of their news is late, which to me makes the site useless. I want to know about Apple only news quickly, not after I've read it a few days ago (especially when the author claims the news just broke).
Well, true. But: sometimes there's good stuff, too. Like Notify, the little app that runs in the menu bar for your Gmail accounts.
It's still a blog, blogs are not necessarily about having all the greatest and latest news, don't forget that a blog is more like a diary thing, where multiple people can share their expressions on things that happen in their lives. So if someone from TUAW stumbles across a post on an imaginary techblog and they find it interesting and meaningful to their day to day life and think it could mean someting to others too, then they share it.
Techblogs have gotten so competitive these days, it's all about the speed, who has a piece of news before the other does, does anyone care about quality at all? Like who has a more comprehensive Windows 7 or Snow Leopard review? Because that's why I read techblogs, not any news sites that just give me links to whoever has the first news on the PS3 slim, but because I want to take some time and read what other, mostly independent people, think about it.
And that is still the case with TUAW, they could cut down on the iPhone apps, but other than that they have everything why I read techblogs. Engadget does too, and so does Gizmodo, though I don't care for the page layout much, it'd be a lot more usable if it was something like the blogsmith system, not just short snippets or even worse only titles of news, but the full thing on the page. But that's up to everyone. I luckily still have enough time to check in on all 3 of them every day.
Erica Sadun has been back with TUAW for several months now, although she's not posting as much as she once did (busy writing books).
Oh, and by the way -- "respectfully" -- the "TUAW used to be better and it sucks now" meme was already old three years ago. I can point you to nigh-identical comments from 2007, just substitute "CK Sample III" and "Laurie Duncan" for Scott and Erica in your post.
"Oh, and by the way -- "respectfully" -- the "TUAW used to be better and it sucks now" meme was already old three years ago."
Well, it's even worse now.
Yeah, I agree with Patriks7, this meme is even worse now than it was three years ago. I mean, it was stupid enough to begin with, now it is just a cliché to be rolled out when you've run out of "Engadget is biased" and "blah blah dumb fanboys blah blah" comments.
so this is an app from an all apple blog? whats the purpose again to get all the apple news you can handle?
i rather see an engadget app.
Who the f*ck cares?! If you've seen 1 app you've seen 'em all.
*nods head in agreement*
This site loves macs too much IMO...
If DownloadSquad put up their own app, I am sure that Engadget would post about it. As it is, Weblogs, Inc. has advertisements for this (in the form of their corner triangle ads) across the majority of their blogs. Hell, DLS put up a post about the app and they are pretty much dedicated to Windows.
I say, the engadget app is long overdue.
I don't get why web sites create apps, I'd rather see more mobile webpages that I can bookmark in safari.
Know what's even slicker? iLounge.com's mobile website, which doesn't require an App.
Besides, I'd take their objectivity over TUAW's cultish fanboy worship of all things Apple any day of the week.
You're an idiot. TUAW stands for The Unofficial Apple Weblog. They report on things related to Apple, it's what they DO. It's about as "cultish" as a news agency reporting on news. Or to put it into a perspective you might be able to understand, a Windows blog reporting on Windows. Or is that a cult too?
Dumbass.
@Zak: Actually, YOU'RE an idiot. If a blog is dedicated to reporting on a particular company, but never have a negative opinion about it, they're either fanboys or blogging about Google. If you read a Windows blog that proclaimed the wonders of Vista (which is actually a pretty decent OS), you would immediately label them as biased. In the end, any journalism that is completely dedicated to a single company is going to be rather cultish. Like the Disney Channel.
I'd be interested to see a side-by-side on a given issue illustrating TUAW's "cultish fanboy" stance compared with iLounge's supposed objectivity. In particular, I'd like to see which other sites have held Apple's feet to the fire on app approvals as TUAW consistently has.
If you're going to play the fanboy card -- particularly, as Zak points out, on a site dedicated to covering all things Apple -- then I think some examples are in order so we can all benefit from your insights.
If a certain party pays AOL a large sum of money for a sweet all-day-corner-takeover spot across a certain tech network, does immediately that make their app "technology news"?
I kind of wish (at least one time) we'd see the advertising dollars not result in an automatic "story"...
Why is it that blatantly offensive and cruel comments that would be COMPLETELY inappropriate if they referred to a person's religion or racial background are "just par for the course" on tech blogs if they are talking about women? Or more specifically, gay women?
I'm embarrassed for my gender. Please, guys, grow the hell up.
AGH STUPID ONEPASSWORD AUTOFILL. Sorry, wrong comment. Correct comment:
"AOL owns Engadget, TUAW and all of Weblogs Inc., so no reason to assume money changed hands."
I thought the unofficial Apple blog was Engadget.com?
I am in SOOO much trouble.
That would be roughlydr.... Nevermind.
Why would you give advertising space to a competitor?
it's not a competing site, that's why. TUAW is one of Engadget's sister sites all run by Weblogs, Inc. owned by AOL/TIME Warner.
I am shocked Apple would approve an app with "Apple" in the title, especially when that Apple refers to Apple Inc and not the fruit. I am certain this is against the SDK agreement.
Place your bets on how long before it's pulled and TUAW is told to rename it...
Not going to happen. App was vetted and approved.
I thought the iPhone already had a full fledged browser that could bring you an internet that's not watered down, graphics less and weak. I thought it could bring you THE internet (flash as you all should know is a bag of hurt). So why is this needed? Why is it even wanted?