Apple has allegedly dipped into its cash hoard and purchased app developer SnappyLabs. The latter is the developer behind SnappyCam, an app that helps users take rapid fire burst photographs on the iPhone. The man behind the company and the app is John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineer from Down Under who devised a way for the camera on the iPhone to take 20 to 30 full-resolution shots in a single second.
SnappyCam has disappeared from the App Store and the website belonging to SnappyLabs has gone blank, suggesting that something has taken place. A published report on Saturday cites a source as saying that Apple has acquired the company. The report added that other big name tech giants were also sniffing around the company. Apple has yet to confirm the purchase, and there has been no speculation about the price of the purported acquisition.
When it was available in the App Store, SnappyCam sold for $1 and during the summer it was the number one paid iOS app in 9 countries. If it turns out that Apple did buy SnappyCam, we will probably see the technology incorporated into the native iPhone camera as soon as the Apple iPhone 6.
Has Apple purchased SnappyLabs and its creation, SnappyCam?
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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