Vintage iPhone Creation

To celebrate WWDC 2012 that took place on Monday I wanted to share this vintage video of an iPhone mod-ing to vintage Apple rainbow colors. As most of you know, the WWDC is Apple’s developer conference where they sometimes introduce new products but mostly update current ones.

The iPhone mod, in the video above – really an aluminium back plate – will bring those memories rushing back to those of you who consider yourselves true “Cult of Mac” members.

I realize that that this post doesn’t discuss an ad, but it does discuss the logo and the brand itself – it is advertising.

Enjoy!

-A.B.

Jade Blox Software- Sky of Arrows

JadeBlox Software is a mobile application and game development company, started by Ahmad Anwar, my brother. I put a short game play video up on YouTube that I would like to share with everyone.

Download Sky of Arrows right now!

We are having a CONTEST Drawing. We want as many people as possible to:

1.     Download the game.

2.     Submit a review on Sky of Arrows in its iTunes page.

3.     Leave your iTunes screen name with a comment on Jadeblox’s YouTube page so that we can find your review.

4.     You will be entered in a drawing to win a $25 iTunes gift card.

So please, help up spread the word about this great new game, the Sky of Arrows.

Best,

-A.B.

Officially My Most Hated Type of Ad

The ad you see above has officially become my number one most hated type of ad. Here are just a few of my reasons:

1. It pops up unexpectedly when opening up an app on your iPhone.
2. It covers the whole screen making you uncertain if you are looking at the app or the app has crashed unexpectedly.
3. The close this ad button is usually within the smallest area of the screen.
4. On the iPhone in particularly the close button is hard to push because of the lack of physical buttons.
5. Trying to close the ads sometime cause you to accidentally launch the ad. This is known as a miss-click and you probably just added to the advertisers revenues even though your click was inadvertent 

The ad above that I clicked on displayed when I launched my Huffington Post iPhone App. The ad was promoting another app for the Microsoft’s Bing Search engine. As a matter of fact, clicking on the ad opened the App Store page to download and install the application.

I think it is part of the iAd network. What do you guys think? Oh, and the ad you see above is directly from my iPhone.

Best

-A.B.