Google pulls Sparrow email app from App Store

Google seems to be shaking off more of its extra weight with the latest app it has pulled from the Apple App Store for iOS and OS X. The Sparrow app was a Google acquisition and like most of its purchases, updates have stopped coming in for the app. Google hasn’t made any official statements about the app being pulled. But you can see this as Google working to push Inbox forward and see how contextual email will work. Have you been a user of Sparrow? What will you miss about the service?

Source: TechCrunch | Via: SlashGear

Share away on Dropbox for iOS 8

iOS 8 users must be breathing a sigh of relief because it’s now easier to share files to Dropbox on the platform. The new version of Dropbox (3.7) adds the new extension for iOS 8. For example, you can send photos right to Dropbox from your iOS Photos app. It should also support Notes, files in Safari, and the like.

Source: 9to5Mac | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

Google brings Play Music for iOS to the iPad

Finally, Google has decided to bring its Google Play Music app to the iPad. Almost at par with the Android version of the app, you get Google’s Material Design on both the iPhone and iPad. The only thing you can’t do still is sign up for Google Play Music’s monthly subscription service because Google doesn’t want Apple to take a cut. But otherwise you’ll get the same experience. Download away if you still don’t have it and want to try it out.

Source: The Verge | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

New Yorker publishes rare and intimate profile on Apple's Jony Ive

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The New Yorker's Ian Parker's immersive profile "The Shape of things to Come," on Apple's SVP for Design Jony Ive is totally worth reading. It gives an intimate profile on Ive as the key cog of Apple's product design powerhouse, his approach on how user interface and design should be seamless as well as the evolution of various key Apple products, including the anticipated Apple Watch. It is an engrossing read from end to end.

The profile is around 17,000 words long but it s definitely worth a read because it covers a lot of things related to Apple, Ive, Tim Cook and the way products come to life from concepts. I enjoyed this more than the unauthorized Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products biography which was woven mostly from second and third-hand sources.