Linked List: June 15, 2012

Friday, 15 June 2012

Toca Boca 

So on Monday morning, I had a thought about whether I should post this week’s DF RSS sponsorship before or after the WWDC keynote. I decided after. Glad I did, because this week’s sponsor, Toca Boca, got featured during the keynote, which meant we got to add an “As seen in the WWDC 2012 keynote” into the sponsorship blurb. Amazing.

Toca Boca calls itself a “play studio”, and that’s a perfect description for what they do. They make digital toys for the iPhone and iPad. Their apps are ad-free and are wonderfully imaginative. This week only, their robot-building app Toca Robot Lab is available free. Seriously, just download it.

Nokia’s Challenge 

Jordan Crook, writing for AOL/TechCrunch:

According to senior ABI analyst Michael Morgan, “at this point in the year, Nokia will have to grow its Windows Phone business 5000% in 2012 just to offset its declines in Symbian shipments.”

No sweat.