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NIN’s Rob Sheridan on Apple rejecting their updated iPhone app
O’reilly Radar has an interesting and informative audio interview with NIN artistic director Rob Sheridan regarding Apple’s recent rejection of NIN’s updated iPhone app. You can check it out over here. Related: Trent Reznor speaks out on App Store approval process
Continue reading...Next iPhone update to include parental controls; Risque content might finally be on the way
Monday, May 4, 2009
Hot on the heels of Apple rejecting an update to the NIN iPhone app due to objectionable content, it seems that Apple is planning to loosen up its puritanical grip on the app store with the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0 update. iLounge reports that a Newspaper app which allowed access to over 50 newspapers worldwide […]
Continue reading...Trent Reznor speaks out on the App Store approval process
Monday, May 4, 2009
A few days ago, Trent Reznor tweeted that an update to the much-acclaimed NIN iPhone App was rejected from the iTunes App Store due to “objectionable content”. Apple rejects the NIN iPhone update because it contains objectionable content. The objectionable content referenced is “The Downward Spiral” Trent Reznor correctly points out, though, that the album […]
Continue reading...Using Macs to develop Twitter
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Apple has an interesting writeup on the use of and preference for Macs over at Twitter HQ. Here are a few of the more interesting excerpts: At Twitter, software engineers use Mac systems running the most recent version of Mac OS X. Twitter was built using software tools like Ruby on Rails, which is provided […]
Continue reading...MLB iPhone app nears $1 Million in Revenue
Monday, April 27, 2009
BusinessInsider reports that the MLB At Bat iPhone app has sold over 130,000 copies thus far. At $10 a pop, that’s $1.3 Million in gross revenue, with $390,000 going to Apple and $910,000 to MLB. $10 for an app is definitely on the high-end, but the popularity of MLB At Bat clearly shows that people […]
Continue reading...Amazon purchases company that developed “Stanza”
Monday, April 27, 2009
Amazon has purchased Lexcycle, the makers of the free iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader “Stanza.” Since its release, Stanza has been an extremely popular application, garnering nearly 500,000 downloads in just the first 3 months it was available on iTunes. Fans of Stanza often claimed, and rightfully so, that the app turns any iPhone […]
Continue reading...Navigating through the App Store review process
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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...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...Why RBC analyst Mike Abramsky’s bearish position on Apple is hard to take seriously – It’s time to put him in check.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Despite the upcoming launch of the iPhone OS 3.0 and rumors of a significant upgrade to the iPhone itself, Mike Abramsky of RBC remains cautious about Apple Stock, and is maintaining his “underperform” rating on the stock, along with his $70 price target. Abramsky wrote in a note to clients that Apple isn’t likely to […]
Continue reading...Convertbot for the iPhone looks super slick [Video]
Friday, March 27, 2009
Check out this video demo of a new iPhone converter app which allows you to convert length, weight and a slew of other variables into other units. The app can also convert currency. The UI looks extremely polished, and has a number of interface options which highlight just how closely the developer paid attention to […]
Continue reading...Ngmoco CEO and Rolando developer heaps praise on the iPhone – “Better than the DS, better than the PSP”
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Neil Young, founder of iPhone development house Ngmoco, heaped some heavy praise on the iPhone yesterday during a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Our love affair with the iPhone began by simply touching it. This was rapidly becoming the most important device I had ever owned. It was an all-encompassing, […]
Continue reading...Beyond Gaming: The iPhone as a medical device
Monday, March 23, 2009
I came across two articles today discussing how medical professionals are increasingly turning to devices like the iPhone to help them in their day-to-day practice. When Apple unveiled the new iPhone SDK last week, one of the presentations involved hooking up an iPhone to a blood-pressure pump. The ability to have an iPhone interact directly […]
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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