Interview Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Meet Heckerty, well-known British children's story, makes its way to the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Meet Heckerty is a delightful British children's story starring Heckerty, a "zany, 409-year-old, upside-down-on-her-broomstick, green-faced witch," and her sidekick cat Zanzibar. The traditional story has made its way to the iPad with a wonderful adaptation that takes advantage of the ...

Jony Ive says Apple's current work is "most important"

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Earlier today, Jonathan Ive was officially knighted at Buckingham Palace. To mark this occasion, Shane Richmond of The Telegraph published an excellent interview with the Apple design chief. In the long and personal conversation, Ive talks about his early design influences, which are decidedly ...

Blackline TV goes live with its iPad-optimized, HTML5 magazine

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 2nd, 2012)

HTML5 is fast becoming an attractive solution for content producers that want to target mobile consumers without limiting their reach to one platform. Done properly, HTML5 can target iPads, Android tablets, mobile phones and desktop users with minimal effort. It's a strategy that magazines and ...

London Evening Standard interviews Jony Ive

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th, 2012)

The London Evening Standard interviewed famed Apple designer Jonathan Ive. As the man credited with the industrial design of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Ive's name is well-known, but his face is not as public as CEO Tim Cook or Phil Schiller. This exclusive interview paints a personal picture of Ive ...

Fishlabs sets the Galaxy on Fire with Valkyrie update

by Mike Schramm (Mar 12th, 2012)

Fishlabs Entertainment is a German-based gaming studio that scored a hit with the Galaxy on Fire series for iOS. The latest, most popular iteration is Galaxy on Fire 2, which Fishlabs has kept fresh with updates and extra content since launch. Players fight pirates, loot, mine asteroids and ...

Readability eliminates the fluff and lets you read: our chat with Rich Ziade

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2012)

Readability is now in the iOS App Store, ready to change how you read the web. We were able to get a preview copy and have been playing with app for a few days. It's a universal app that lets you browse articles without the clutter of ads, superfluous links and redundant images. For those who use ...

IGG Software, iBank and its climb from one-man shop to Intuit competitor

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 20th, 2012)

You probably haven't heard of IGG Software, but you will. It's the company behind the popular Mac and iOS financial software iBank and it's about to send a knock out blow to finance giant Intuit. So how did iBank climb from a single-man operation to its position as one of the top financial apps ...

The Omni Group's Ken Case talks with TUAW at Macworld iWorld 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 26th, 2012)

One of the most innovative and longstanding software development firms in the Apple ecosystem is The Omni Group. The company originally developed software for Steve Jobs's NeXT in the 1990's, created some of the first OS X software in the 2000s, and has gracefully made the transition to iOS with ...

How Line2 accidentally disrupted the phone industry

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

Last week at CES 2012, I met up with Line2 CEO Peter Sisson; he is a man who's done a lot of butting heads with big companies over what started off as a pretty simple proposition. Line2's basic concept was to create a second line (for business or personal calls) on your iPhone. Sisson's ...

OnLive goes from gaming to Desktop and TV

by Mike Schramm (Jan 16th, 2012)

The folks from OnLive, who we met up with last week at CES, are understandably apologetic about the fact that the iOS app for gaming hasn't yet shown up in the App Store. But though they may be sorry it hasn't appeared, OnLive's Bruce Grove is still mum on what the holdup is all about, only ...

Algoriddim's Mac App of the Year djay 4 trades iOS and Mac features

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2012)

Algoriddim is back in a booth at CES 2012 this week in Las Vegas, and TUAW stopped by to chat with the company as well as congratulate them on winning Mac App of the Year for its turntable music app, djay 4. We got to see the app early before it was released, and since then, Algoriddim's CTO ...

Selena Gomez talks tech with TUAW

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 23rd, 2011)

Before 2011, you probably only knew who Selena Gomez was if you had teenagers or younger children. But this year the young woman who plays Alex on Disney's Emmy Award-winning Wizards of Waverly Place has made her way into the mainstream spotlight. In the last twelve months she's starred in ...

Interview: Olivia Broadfield on Macs, apps and DIY music making

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 14th, 2011)

You've probably not heard of UK based singer songwriter Olivia Broadfield before, but chances are you've heard her music at some point, especially if you watch a lot of TV. Songs from her debut album, Eyes Wide Open (released in 2009), reached over 50 TV placements on shows like The Hills, ...

The New York Times goes one-on-one with Walter Isaacson

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 18th, 2011)

It's turn-the-table time, and the man who spent the last several years interviewing people for his Steve Jobs biography is now being interviewed by the New York Times. As expected, the interview focuses on Isaacson's book and the time he spent with Steve Jobs. In his conversation with New York ...

First reviews of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview appear

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 14th, 2011)

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is a TV interview turned feature film that will be shown this week in Landmark Theatres across the US. The interview was originally recorded in 1995 when Jobs had left Apple and contains a lively conversation between Robert Cringely and Jobs. Ten minutes of the ...