Google has always been a firm supporter for Apple and their iPhone, They provided the main Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch from day one, and now they plan to do it again. Google has announced they plan to have more Apps ready from day one of the iPhone and iPod Touch software version 2.0
This is defiantly the week of Web Apps, Google is now making its popular RSS reader “Google Reader” newly optimized for the iPod Touch and iPhone. It comes with a new interface and some new features although this is a BETA so Google is trying to find out what works and what doesn’t when it comes to Web Apps.
You can check out the new Google Reader interface on your iPod Touch or iPhone at (http://www.google.com/reader/i)
Recently Apple has not been so nice to all of their early adapters and see them as just another way to make a few bucks. This started at the “Beat Goes On” Keynote in late 2007. Here they announced the $200 dollar price drop for the iPhone and left many people unhappy.
This continued at Macworld 2008 with the announcement of iPhone apps on the iPod Touch. The apps will of course be preinstalled BUT all of the people who had been there from the start will be slapped with a $20 fee to install the apps for themselves.
Last week Google took some time out from Android to flirt a little with Apple’s pair of touchscreen stunners, bringing a newly-tweaked homepage for the omnipresent search engine to their finger-friendly screens. Well, they obviously have a taste for developing mobile Safari apps (or are busy testing out potential Android content!) because they’ve now updated image organisation software Picasa to work nicely with the iPod Touch and iPhone’s browser.
With a recent update to the mobile Google Reader interface, the RSS aggregator software takes another pace in front of the competition with more choice as to how feeds are displayed and improvements to the UI:
“While the functionality is the same as previous versions, we’ve changed the user interface to make it easier to navigate and select often-used links. We’ve also moved the navigational buttons to the top, since it’s easy to return to the top of the page by just tapping on the status bar”Dolapo Falola, Google Reader official blog
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