TUAW's iPhone app: it's alive

If you love TUAW, iPhones, and apps (and let's be honest... you do), then today should be filled with wonderment and excitement. Why you ask? Because our homeboys and girls over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog have released their very own iPhone app -- and it's pretty darn slick. If you know what's good for you, you'll get to downloading it right now. It's what Steve Jobs would want you to do.

Read - TUAW's post on the app
Read - iTunes link

[Cy Starkman Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:49PM]

I really don't know. The browser adaptive webpage they already have (and engadget) is already good. Actually I've changed my desktop experience so it is the mobile site... Much faster and focused.

As for engadget making an app, the brand-harems of everyone cept apple and the general haters would start spitting blood from their eyes as the rage overwhelmed them. I can imagine all the script-kiddies starting up their downloaded DoS apps and targeting engadget.

Actuallly if engadget has any sense for it's own survival, there will be no App for iPhone, even the comment system would crash under the all out warfare that would breakout.

[VanillaSpice Posted Aug 31st 2009 1:26AM]

@10minutehobo - 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.

The point of the app itself is - quicker access to certain parts of TUAW, a layout and interface not constricted by HTML, in the future a push system so you don't have to reload the webpage to see new stories, access to potential new readers (browsers of the App Store who don't read TUAW yet), and the fact that many users would prefer the ease of "open an app" instead of "open Safari, access bookmarks, select TUAW bookmark".

[Dusty Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:35PM]

Engadget needs an app!

[jinushaun Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:43PM]

For an iPhone app ABOUT Apple, it sure is ugly... Why didn't they stick with the standard iPhone controls? But it's the content, I guess.

[Cy Starkman Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:51PM]

The content is ugly?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2009 8:37PM]

If this means all random iPhone app news will go directly to TUAW and that app then I'm all for it. Too much of that crap is posted at engadget proper.

[Level 5 Posted Aug 28th 2009 10:23PM]

Worthless. I have zero idea why this is superior to an RSS reader unless you only read TUAW ever. Is it really that hard to have to click to Safari through an RSS reader at the expense of, oh I dunno.. having ALL of your OTHER news in said reader? Lame.

[chuckles Posted Aug 28th 2009 10:56PM]

Requires firmware v3.0. What is UP with that?!

They just HAD to use some feature found ONLY in v3.0? It's a freaking blog interface, fer gosh sakes!

I really chaps my @ss when developers do this. Yeah, so crazy intense game that needs the latest graphics lib fixes, or uses a compass, but for a vanilla app? C'mon, choose to write for compatibility, willya? Not EVERYONE feels the need to pay for the upgrade to their perfectly good v2.0.

I'm with @Level 5. Screw this attitude. I'll stick with my RSS reader.

Sheesh!

[Langdon Alger Posted Aug 29th 2009 2:09PM]

I said, TUAW, huh
Good God, y'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

[dmccall Posted Aug 29th 2009 3:25PM]

Yet another custom iPhone BROWSER to make up for Safari's inadequacies.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 29th 2009 8:38PM]

As soon as I saw the TUAW app a few days ago I immediately checked for the "ENGADGET app" only to be disappointed. Sucks they beat you to the punch. TUAW is #1 now. Engadget is now in the stone age. Get a move on it....

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2009 1:17AM]

3.0 only