iPad By Davis: “App Developer? Take the Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey!” plus 5 more

App Developer? Take the Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey!
10,000 CG iPhone 5's used as dominoes to demonstrate NFC concept technology
Editor's desk: Offline in NYC
Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Blue Constellation
Notable New iPad Apps: Yahoo! Mail
iMore show 346: State of the camera art

App Developer? Take the Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey!

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 04:13 PM PDT

Developer? Take a 10-minute online survey and you could win great prizes! Results will be freely available in June via @visionmobile.

Our friends at Vision Mobile reached out to let us know they're once again running their Developer Economics survey.

The Developer Economics research series, now in its 5th year, examines top mobile platforms, app monetization & many more key issues for developers today. The results from the surveys are released as publicly available reports.

If you're an app developer, take the new Developer Economics 10-minute survey, have your say on the latest trends in mobile development and you can also win great prizes!

Prizes this year include a Samsung Galaxy SIII, a BlackBerry Z10, Lumia 920, AR Drone, Nest thermostat and Nike Fuel band up for grabs!

Take the Survey!

10,000 CG iPhone 5's used as dominoes to demonstrate NFC concept technology

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:05 PM PDT

Aatma Studio has created a pretty amazing video to demonstrate what NFC technology could do in the iPhone. We aren't talking your typical boring concept video, we're talking 10,000 computer-generated iPhone 5's with a hypothetical NFC chip installed that are knocked over like dominoes passing information from one screen to another.

It's a pretty cool concept, even if it doesn't happen anytime soon. Make sure you watch through until the very end as that's arguably the coolest part of the entire video. The folks at Aatma Studio have been playing around with CG iPhones for years now, including a morphing iPhone/iPad video that was just too cool. These 10,000 iPhone 5's are purely CG, but Aatma has certainly put a lot of thought and effort into the concept and the video. Maybe someday Apple will hope on the NFC bandwagon and they can try it again in real life...

Source: Aatma Studio

Editor's desk: Offline in NYC

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:21 AM PDT

All that prep work I've been doing in New York City for the last few weeks? It jumps to warp speed tomorrow and I, along with my fellow Mobile Nations editors, Phil Nickinson, Daniel Rubino, and Kevin Michaluk, along with the enormously talented Cali Lewis and John P, will be pretty much offline most days this week.

I'll still pop in as much as possible, and I'll share via @reneritchie on Twitter, ADN, and Instagram as much as I can. Apple earnings are coming up on Tuesday, so at the very least I'll make sure I'm around for that.

Meanwhile, our new editor, Peter Cohen, starts tomorrow, and Leanna, Ally, Joe, as well as Chris and Simon will be around to keep things running.

We're going to have a ton of stuff coming your way and soon, so please excuse me for a few while we all work our asses off to make it so.

Photo: safe solvent

Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Blue Constellation

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:11 AM PDT

This weekend's iPad wallpaper pick is Blue Constellation, shown above on the iPad mini home screen.

It follows on from last week's pick – which was Constellations. This one is a much more subdued sort of image, one that almost feels like a simple, single color background for the home screen – but with just a little extra interest to it.

It's by Brett Jordan (no relation) just like last week's pick. Brett is one of the biggest regular contributors to our iPad Insight Flickr group. You can download this Blue Constellation image at a range of good iPad wallpaper sizes from the group page – and while you're there check out all the other cool wallpaper images and incredible iPad artwork.