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Deconstructing Jason Calacanis’ “Case against Apple” article piece by piece
Jason Calacanis, of Mahalo, Weblogs, and TWIT fame, recently penned an article titled “The Case against Apple in 5 parts” where he details why his long love affair with Apple is coming to an end. From what I’ve seen and heard of Calacanis, he seems like an alright guy, but much of the reasoning in […]
Continue reading...Apple removes Sex Offender app from the iTunes App Store
Friday, August 7, 2009
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Apple this week removed an iPhone app which allowed users to locate nearby sex offenders. Hmm, that didn’t come out quite right. Let’s try again. Apple this week removed an iPhone app which, in the interest of safety, allowed users to check and see if sex offenders were living in their area. Now before you […]
Continue reading...The App Store approval process explained
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Who knew the app store approval process was so simple. Turns out, Apple just uses this piece of code and runs it on an infinite loop. Genius! flipCoin() if (heads) approve app else reject app wait 1 week if (pressCoverage >= lotsOf) rejectMoreApps else if (pressCoverage >= tooMuch) fireBoardMember else rejectAppAnyway via TechCrunch
Continue reading...Phil Schiller chimes in on “censoring” of Ninjawords dictionary app
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Two days ago we wrote about how Apple’s app store review team forced the developers of the dictionary app Ninjawords to remove certain objectionable words from their app, yet still slapped a 17+ rating on it, a seeming contradiction in terms. But to Apple’s credit, they’ve responded in the form of a Phil Schiller email […]
Continue reading...Fast food hits the iPhone
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Information Week writes: Taco Bell and KFC are weathering the recession, since cash-crunched consumers can pick up a meal for less than $5. But Pizza Hut — Yum! Brand’s other big restaurant business–is a pricey problem. And that’s where a new iPhone application could make a difference.The Pizza Hut online meal-ordering app has been downloaded […]
Continue reading...iTunes App Store spammer tried to sell his operation for millions of dollars
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Remember that jackass developer we reported on yesterday, the guy who with a team of 26 produced nearly 1000 buggy and pointless iPhone apps to bilk customers out of their hard earned money? Well, apparently he tried to sell his entire app store scam operation for millions of dollars back in early July. On Flippa.com, […]
Continue reading...Landrover releases usless, yet funny, iPhone app [Photo]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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Check out this slightly amusing iPhone app from Landrover. In an effort to highlight how monstrous a vehicle the Landrover is, the app doesn’t give you actual driving directions, but merely displays a straight line between your starting point and destination. Apparently it can just climb over any and every thing that gets in its […]
Continue reading...Apple finally bans dumbass and shady developer from the iPhone app store for copyright infringement
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
With over 65,000 apps and growing, the iTunes App Store has a commanding lead over competing app stores. But its large library of apps also makes navigating around and finding quality apps an increasingly tougher task for iPhone users. The iTunes App Store has been likened to a gold rush, and as such, it’s filled […]
Continue reading...Another ridiculous decision from Apple’s app store review team
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Call us gullible or optimistic, but after learning of Apple’s new channels of communication with developers, we genuinely believed that the days of ridiculous and non-sensical app rejections were behind us. We were wrong. DaringFireball gives us the low down on the trials and tribulations experienced by the developers of Ninjawords, an iPhone dictionary app […]
Continue reading...The iPhone/App store puts iPod/iTunes growth to shame [Graphs]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB, the venture capital firm behind the $100 Million iFund initiative, came up with some interesting graphs which illustrate how much more quickly the rate of growth has been for the iPhone and the iTunes App Store compared to the iPod and iTunes Music Store. The differences are staggering. Kleiner Perkins iFund […]
Continue reading...Apple debuts 2 new iPhone commercials [Video]
Monday, August 3, 2009
Apple on Monday unveiled 2 new iPhone ads. One is called “Share”, and highlights iPhone apps that enable users to connect with one another, such as playing a multi-player game of iPhone Scrabble, or sharing contact information with other iPhone users with the “Bump” app. (Quick bit of trivia: the Bump app was the 1 […]
Continue reading...Microsoft tells developers how to port apps over from the iPhone to Windows Mobile
Monday, August 3, 2009
This fall, Microsoft will unveil its own version of a mobile app store for Windows Mobile phones, aptly called the Windows Marketplace. Clearly, Microsoft will have a lot of work on its hands as it attempts to compete with the already mature iTunes App Store which currently boasts more than 65,000 applications. In an effort […]
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
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