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Apple’s revised developer guidelines target unscrupulous developers
Apple this past September published its App Review Guidelines in an effort to create more transparency between developers and Apple’s sometimes inexplicable app store decisions. One of the more interesting aspects of Apple’s app review guidelines involved Apple’s efforts to stave off shady developers looking to pull a scam on iTunes. As an example, the […]
Continue reading...Breaking down app store market share and revenue
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Whether or not you believe Apple app store success is rooted in dumb luck or foresight, there’s no denying that Apple’s been on the vanguard of a mobile app industry that has quickly become a multi-billion dollar business. Following in Apple’s footsteps, competitors like Google, Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft have all released competing app stores […]
Continue reading...Apple talks to Capcom over in-app purchases on Smurfs’ Village, Capcom denies spat
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Well it looks like Capcom has smurfed its way into some iTunes App Store controversy. Capcom is the development company behind Smurfs’ Village, a top grossing iPhone game that’s free to download but charges users real money to purchase in-app content. Apple reportedly had strong words for Capcom following a rash of customer complaints from parents […]
Continue reading...New Steve Jobs email addresses in-app subscriptions for software as a service apps
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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With all of the drama surrounding Apple’s new in-app subscription guidelines as applied to software as a service, one MacRumors reader emailed Steve Jobs the following: Hello Steve, As a full time iOS developer, I am concerned (and confused) withe the new App Store guideline regarding “Apps offering subscriptions” (section 11.12). Most of the iOS […]
Continue reading...Apple’s rejects Readability app on account of new in-app subscription rules
Monday, February 21, 2011
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TUAW reports: Readability simplifies websites for easier reading. It’s a service which strips online articles of annoying jiggly-belly ads and other distractions, puts that content into a very readable format, and delivers it to you in Safari or on mobile browsers. Readability was so loved by someone at Apple that they even put it into […]
Continue reading...Last.Fm founder says Apple just f’d over online music subscriptions
Friday, February 18, 2011
Apparently not one to mince words, Last.fm founder Richard Jones lambasted Apple for their recently announced app store subscription rules. “Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone,” Jones wrote in an IRC chat earlier this week. Two days ago, Rhapsody also chastised Apple’s new policy, explaining that giving Apple a 30% cut […]
Continue reading...Rhapsody scoffs at Apple’s new subscription policy, contemplates legal action
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Apple’s new in-app subscription feature is causing quite a stir. Under Apple’s recently published guidelines, if a publisher signs up a new subscriber via an iOS app, Apple gets a 30% cut – and this occurs even when the actual subscription is subsequently processed via a website and outside of the iOS ecosystem. In other […]
Continue reading...Apple launches in-app subscriptions; Publishers wary of Apple’s 30% take
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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Apple today announced that in-app subscriptions, which first premiered with the launch of The Daily a few weeks ago, will now be available to all publishers to take advantage of. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has been used to buy billions of […]
Continue reading...Apple planning to eliminate boxed software – Rumor
Monday, February 7, 2011
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MacRumors reports that the recent launch of the Mac App Store may catalyze Apple’s efforts to completely do away with boxed software. With the success of the iTunes App Store and the launch of the Mac App Store, it seems clear that the long term future of software sales is going to be digital distribution. Based […]
Continue reading...Most popular iPhone and iPad apps of all-time – Updated January 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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Two weeks ago, Apple recorded the 10 billionth app download from iTunes. As part of the commemoration, Apple updated its listing of the most popular iPhone and iPad apps, breaking them down into categories of all-time top paid apps and all-time top free apps. As for the top paid iPhone apps, the list is hardly surprising. […]
Continue reading...Apple and News Corp. officially introduce “The Daily”
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Rupert Murdoch today unveiled a new iPad-only publication called The Daily. “New times demand new journalism,” Murdoch explained. “So we built The Daily completely from scratch — on the most innovative device to come about in my time — the iPad.” Looking to spice things up, The Daily will feature a medley of text, photography, […]
Continue reading...iTunes payments to developers growing faster than payments to record labels
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
With a few basic assumptions in tow, Horace Dediu charts the payments made by Apple to both record labels and developers. As you can tell, payments to record labels are closing in on $12 billion while payments to app developers are slightly above the $2 billion mark. But what’s interesting about the data is that […]
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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