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Navigating through the App Store review process
The App Store review process is riddled with mystery. An app like Tweetie is initially banned because of a technicality while an app like Babyshaker somehow frolics into the app store unscathed. While Apple quickly rectified both of the above mentioned mistakes, it makes you wonder what sort of criteria Apple employs in making its […]
Continue reading...Apple’s releases new web ad in celebration of 1 Billion app downloads
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Apple recently released an entertaining new web ad to celebrate the 1 Billionth app download from iTunes. The video below shows the ad first without sound, and then with sound.
Continue reading...13 year old downloads billionth app from iTunes
Friday, April 24, 2009
In a press release today, Apple announced that 13 year old Connor Mulcahey from Connecticut was the lucky guy who downloaded the billionth app from iTunes. He’ll be receiving a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Not too shabby, but 10 grand in cash might have been […]
Continue reading...McDonald’s isn’t impressed with 1 Billion iTunes App Downloads
Friday, April 24, 2009
1 Billion downloads from the iTunes App Store might seem like a lot, but not everyone is fawning over Apple. McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers, and basically stopped counting when they hit 99 billion years ago. Needless to say, they’re not impressed.
Continue reading...BabyShaker App in Action [Video] and Apple issues apology
Thursday, April 23, 2009
In case you missed it, an app called Babyshaker made its way into the iTunes App Store yesterday. What did it do? Well, it displayed drawings of babies accompanied by “annoying” sounds such as crying and screaming. The stated purpose of the app was to see how long you could endure the “annoying” sounds before […]
Continue reading...iTunes App Store officially hits 1 Billion downloads
Thursday, April 23, 2009
It’s official. Today at approximately 1:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, the Billionth application was downloaded from iTunes. And it only took 9 months. By way of comparison, it took nearly 3 years before the Billionth song was downloaded from iTunes. Granted, a good number of app store downloads are free, but that’s still damn impressive. […]
Continue reading...Apple approves “Babyshaker” app.. WTF!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Update: Apple acted fast and removed the application earlier today. Is anyone at Apple actually paying attention to what goes into the iTunes App Store these days? Babyshaker is an app that displays drawings of babies, accompanied by “annoying” sounds such as crying and screaming. The stated purpose of the app is to see how […]
Continue reading...Apple’s Celebration Page for the Billionth Download App Leaked
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
If you set your computers date forward by a few days and go to www.apple.com, you’re greeted with the splash screen Apple’s planning on using on its homepage once the billionth app is downloaded from iTunes. For those of you who are interested, we did a bit of trial and error testing, and it appears […]
Continue reading...“Badass” Hulu app coming to the iPhone?
Friday, April 17, 2009
Citing a “plugged-in industry executive”, BusinessInsider is reporting that Hulu is working on a “badass” iPhone app that will work on both 3G and WiFi networks. If true, a Hulu app would certainly be a huge hit on the iTunes App Store. Interestingly, Hulu competes directly with iTunes as it offers an impressive number of […]
Continue reading...The all-time most popular iPhone apps (Free and Paid)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
As part of Apple’s promotion for the 1 Billionth downloaded app from iTunes, it recently released a list of the all-time most popular free and paid apps to ever grace the iTunes App Store. Not surprisingly, 14 of the top 20 paid apps are games. Take a look at the rundown below. Most Popular Paid […]
Continue reading...The Most Ridiculous Apple article of the day award goes to..
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Joe Wilcox, for his recent article, “Will App Store Developers Lose by Winning?” Congrats! In Wilcox’s latest article, he equates the iTunes App Store to a Hollywood movie set – “all facade, with nothing much behind it”, and argues that developers are devoting too many resources towards iPhone development at the expense of other platforms.
Continue reading...Nastiest iPhone App Yet
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Attempting to follow in the successful footsteps of other gross-out apps, a new iPhone app attempts to take things to the next level with a focus on skin lesions. iLeprosy (it feels weird even typing it out) is a new app that lets users take pictures of their friends and digitally apply a wide variety […]
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
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