Tag Archive | "app store"
Palm hires ex-Apple guy as manger of its Palm Pre developer community
Former Apple employee Chuq Von Rospach recently accepted a position at Palm where he will serve as the Developer Community Manager for the Palm Pre SDK. Apple’s app store is already off to a commanding lead, and the Palm Pre, which doesn’t launch for another few months, will have to play a significant amount of […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects Obama trampoline app for the iPhone
Saturday, February 7, 2009
First Apple rejects an iPhone game that lets you throw a shoe at George Bush, and now it rejects a game that lets you bounce a number of political figures up and down on a trampoline! Oh the humanity. According to TechCrunch, ‘Obama Trampoline’ lets users “select a known U.S. politician (both republicans and democrats) […]
Continue reading...Nickelodeon to release cartoon related iPhone Apps
Saturday, February 7, 2009
In yet another sign of the strength behind the iTunes App Store, Nickelodeon recently announced plans to develop applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch that center around a number of its cartoons, namely “SpongeBob SquarePants”, “Dora the Explorer”, and “iCarly.” If the iPod Touch is able to position itself as a must-have device for […]
Continue reading...Use your iPhone to help find missing children and wanted fugitives
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Recognizing criminals on Milk cartons is so 1980’s when you can now use an iPhone instead. A relatively new application in the iTunes App Store called “FBI Most Wanted” allows users to view pictures and listings of the most wanted men in America, and then gives them the ability to contact the nearest local FBI […]
Continue reading...Playing “Hot N Cold” on the iPhone with Ocarina [Video]
Friday, February 6, 2009
Check out this cool video of a guy using the iPhone app Ocarina to play the song “Hot N Cold” by Katy Perry. Towards the end he’s just singing and playing the guitar, but it’s still worth checking out.
Continue reading...Apple rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Apple recently rejected a Pakistani developers iPhone application that lets users use the iPhone’s accelerometer to hurl a virtual shoe at former President George W. Bush. If you recall, in the weeks preceding Bush’s tenure as President, he was giving a speech in Iraq when a journalist popped up and threw a shoe at him. […]
Continue reading...The nuances of App Store pricing and marketing
Thursday, February 5, 2009
David Frampton, the creator of the popular iPhone game ‘Chopper’, has an extremely enlightening blog entry about his experiences with App Store pricing and marketing in iTunes. Frampton on the trend of lowering prices in order to boost sales volume: But the biggest problem with setting an app price at the lowest possible value is […]
Continue reading...iPhone users download games like crazy
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new report from ComScore shows that over the past year, downloads of mobile games increased by 17%. Naturally, a huge reason for this increase is the ever-growing popularity of smartphones, which are significantly more geared towards gaming than regular voice phones. What’s even more interesting is the fact that iPhone users are seemingly downloading […]
Continue reading...Create a TimeLapse video with your iPhone
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Even with over 19,000 apps already available in the iTunes App Store, developers keep on coming up with original and clever ideas for applications. One app in particular, called TimeLapse, takes a photo with your iPhone every few seconds, and then compiles them all together into a video. In hindsight, this app seems like a […]
Continue reading...Is Apple planning opening up a premium games section on the App Store?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Pocketgamer is reporting that Apple has plans to open up a section on the iTunes App Store dedicated solely to games priced over $19.99. ..The initiative will only be open to a restricted number of large publishers, rather than the thousands of smaller developers currently selling their titles on the main App Store. The rumour […]
Continue reading...Podcaster now available in the App Store
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A few months ago, in September to be exact, there was a tiny bit of controversy regarding Apple’s decision not to accept an application known as ‘Podcaster’ into the iTunes App Store. Podcaster allowed users to stream and download podcasts over an Internet connection without having to access them via iTunes. This proved to be […]
Continue reading...Break your iPhone Screen.. On Purpose
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
A soon to be released iPhone app lets users break their iPhone screens and blow up icons on the iPhone homepage. Check out this slightly over-produced video about the new app, aptly titled “Fracture.” It seems pretty cool, and looks gimmicky (read: fun) enough to become a hot selling app in no time. It’s also […]
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Monday, February 9, 2009
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