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Video: Filming with my iPhone 3GS at the Apple StoreOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Dec 21
By rss@youtube.com (qkenihan) Author: qkenihan Keywords: Apple Iphone App Added: December 21, 2009
Video: Skype Launches Application for iPhone and iPod ...Original at Grouper
• Tue, Mar 31
By info@crackle.com (newsinfusion) For more information visit www.newsinfusion.com LAS VEGAS, March 31, 2009 – Skype announced that its highly anticipated application, Skype™ for iPhone, will be available on the Apple App Store beginning today. The app also adds Skype calling and instant messaging to any second generati...
Video: Match.com App for iPhone and iPod touch Makes it E...Original at Grouper
• Tue, Mar 24
By info@crackle.com (MultiVuVideo) Match.com, the world's largest online dating company, announced the availability of a free application on the Apple App Store. The Match.com application takes the most useful and popular features of the Match.com online experience and brings them to the revolutionary iPhone and iPod tou...
Video: How to Setup Palringo on your iPhone (3G) or iPod touchOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Aug 16
By rss@youtube.com (TwistedShrapnel) Get Palringo @ the app store for free! This tutorial will show you how to setup the Palringo IM app Author: TwistedShrapnel Keywords: MSN iPhone Gmail AIM touch iPod Apple App Store iTunes Free Client Added: August 16, 2008
Video: Apple Remote App for iPhoneOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Jul 10
By rss@youtube.com (automatedhomeuk) A two minute tour of the free iPhone and iPod Touch application from Apple Author: automatedhomeuk Keywords: app apple appletv application control iphone itunes remote tv Added: July 10, 2008
Fring iPhone App Allows Skype Calls over 3GOriginal at Gizmodo
• Thu, Jan 28
By Rosa Golijan You don't need to update your version of the Fring app as it was simply a matter of Apple lifting some restrictions on its end. You can now freely make Skype calls without being connected through Wi-Fi—assuming you've got decent reception.
Why the iPad May Yet Be Good News For Newspapers
Original at BusinessWeek
• Thu, Jan 28
By Peter Burrows 1. A More Hands-Off Approach: Apple could have announced an iNewstand (or somesuch name) wing of the iTunes store yesterday, along with the new iBook Store. But it didn't. Instead, it had the New York Times get up and show off an App it is building specifically for the iPad. So it's no leap to assu...
AT&T sells 3.1 million iPhones, Google VoIP app hits iPhone, iStunt game free today
Original at iPhone Buzz
• Thu, Jan 28
By Shane McGlaun AT&T is gaining a bit on Verizon thanks to the iPhone. Last quarter AT&T sold 3.1 million iPhones and now has 85.1 million total subscribers. Apple may have denied the Google Voice App for the iPhone, but Google has a workaround in place. The search giant has made a GV Web App that works wi...
News: Quicktime video of iPad unveiling event now available
Original at iLounge
• Wed, Jan 27
By dennisl@ilounge.com (Dennis Lloyd) Apple has posted a streaming Quicktime video of its iPad announcement event, held earlier today at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. The video is one hour and thirty-three minutes long, and contains several demonstrations including the iPad, iBooks, iTunes, App s...
Why the Jury's Still Out on the Apple iPad
Original at BusinessWeek
• Wed, Jan 27
By Cliff Edwards The iPad is designed to access the same applications available for iPods and the iPhone on Apple's popular App Store. There's even software that will automatically re-size existing applications for better viewing on the larger screen.
iBooks App & iBookstore
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Wed, Jan 27
By Weldon Dodd So is the iPad a Kindle Killer? I think the biggest advantage that Apple will bring to the e-book reader market is a reading experience that is on par with the Amazon Kindle, but on a multi-purpose device that will have wider appeal. Apple has absolutely nailed the relationship between devi...
News: Apple Announces 140,000 Apps on iPhone App Store
Original at pheedcontent.com
• Wed, Jan 27
Apple announced today the the App Store now has more than 140,000 apps available. The company made the announcement during the "some updates" phase of Steve Jobs's media event keynote, according to Endgadget. Mr. Jobs did not update the number of apps that had been downloaded, repeating th...
Google Voice comes to iPhone and webOS, as a web app
Original at Engadget
• Tue, Jan 26
By Ross Miller FCC investigation be damned, Google has finally managed to bypass the App Store and release Google Voice to the iPhone (and webOS, too) the same way it pulled off Latitude, i.e. via a HTML5-based web app. According to Senior Product Manager Vincent Paquet, it should work with any HTML5-comp...
Apple's Cook embraces AT&T, defends App Store
Original at Macworld
• Tue, Jan 26
By Philip Michaels Monday's conference call featuring Apple executives touched on two issues of interest to iPhone users and developers -- AT&T's coverage and the approval process for iPhone and iPod touch apps. And it provided a rare look at what Apple's top executives think about those issues.
Acer Takes On Apple and Amazon in E-book Readers and App Downloads
Original at BloggingStocks
• Mon, Jan 25
By Brian White Filed under: Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)
Create an App in 27 Seconds? AppMakr Reviewed
Original at Apple Gazette
• Thu, Jan 21
By lorrainemarie There’s no question that iPhone apps are huge now. Over 3 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, and if you do business online, releasing an iPhone app of your own is one of the hottest ways to connect to both existing and potential clients.
Qik made this announcement this week especially noteworthy for iPhone users
Original at palmaddict.typepad.com
• Tue, Jan 19
By sam mcloughln From Hans] Qik made this announcement this week especially noteworthy for iPhone users. "We are very excited to announce a major update to our Qik VideoCamera app in the Apple App Store. Not only did we make some significant quality improvements (like recording videos with 15 frames per se...
Apple's App Store said to have 99.4 percent of all mobile app sales, more like 97.5
Original at Engadget
• Mon, Jan 18
By Vladislav Savov The latest research from Gartner indicates that, for the year 2009, only 16 million app sales were executed on mobile devices not bearing the infamous bitten apple logo. In reporting this data, Ars Technica inadvertently conflates Apple's latest announcement of three billion apps dow...
That’s Why I Pay $99 A Year – MobileMe Galley App Released
Original at Apple Gazette
• Fri, Jan 15
By Kevin Whipps Anyways, today Apple introduced their official MobileMe Gallery app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, which allows you to view your MobileMe gallery right on your phone. From what I can tell, it just shows you what you’ve got, then allows you to mail links to the photos if you like. You can’t upload...
Product News: Apple Intros MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone
Original at pheedcontent.com
• Fri, Jan 15
• 1 related articles
Apple released Gallery for the iPhone and iPod touch late on Thursday. Gallery is an app that lets users view the photos and videos in their own and friend's MobileMe Galleries.
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How Much Does Apple Care About App Store Looting?
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Jan 14
By matt buchanan Here's the thing: Apple is not merely the exclusive means by which an app enters the App Store, but by extension, Apple controls the only legitimate way for an app to reach an iPhone. This is very different from, say, Macs, where they have virtually no control over what applications are inst...
$450 million iPhone piracy figure not grounded in reality
Original at Ars Technica
• Thu, Jan 14
By jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil) Apple and third-party developers have lost $450 million due to App Store piracy since the store launched in July of 2008, according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall Street. This number might seem shocking at first, but the buzz generated by this report is misleading—the estimate is based on que...
Unauthorized iPhone news readers raise eyebrows
Original at Engadget
• Thu, Jan 14
By Nilay Patel P.S.- Let's not even get into the fact that Apple's rated the NYT Mobile Reader app "12+" for "Infrequent / Mild Mature / Suggestive Themes." Oh, the App Store.Unauthorized iPhone news readers raise eyebrows originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:23:00 EST. Please see our term...
WANTED Poster For iPhone Pics Made by Framed! App
Original at Apple Gazette
• Thu, Jan 14
By RJ Huneke The instant background framing application for photographs taken on the iPhone is here! With three touches of the screen one can use a photo for a WANTED poster, complete with a customizable REWARD, and then upload it onto FaceBook or Email it! The “Framed! Lite” App is a Must Have for iPho...
Apple App Store has lost $450 million due to piracy
Original at palmaddict.typepad.com
• Wed, Jan 13
By sam mcloughln From Eric Mann] It's a big figure, Apple App Store has lost $450 million due to piracy. "Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according to an analysis by...
Podcast: Subscribe to TidBITS on the Kindle
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Mon, Jan 4
• 4 related articles
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Although it's likely that more TidBITS readers rely on an iPhone or iPod touch for reading TidBITS, particularly now that we've released a free TidBITS News app (see "Free TidBITS News iPhone App," 4 January 2010), we also have good news for Kindle users: you can now subscribe to TidBITS o...
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IMPULSIVE Review of Awful “Bouncedown” App
Original at Apple Gazette
• Tue, Dec 22
By RJ Huneke The #1 Top Downloaded Free application in the Apple Store is “Bouncedown,” and I wish that this fact had not inspired me to acquire the horrid game for this piece. There could be prejudice here, as the player testing the “Bouncedown” App is absolutely awful at the simple, but clunky game for...
Brief: App Store success several times what Apple likely expected
Original at Ars Technica
• Mon, Dec 21
By chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman) The runaway success of the iPhone App Store, which Apple didn't even launch until a year after the first iPhone became available, caught even Apple by surprise. The 2-billion-apps-sold milestone, reached in late September after just a year and a half of sales, surpassed even the most opt...
Opinion: Apple Making Mobile Safari Web Apps Better, Faster, Stronger
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Wed, Dec 16
By Darrell Etherington iPhone web apps aren’t being left behind by Apple, despite the fact that the App Store has gone on to become such a huge success following its introduction in 2008. In fact, according to John Gruber at Daring Fireball, recent efforts on the Mac maker’s part show a real dedication to improvin...
There’s (Not) An App for That: 10 Apps Only Available for Jailbroken iPhones
Original at The Apple
• Fri, Dec 11
By Dave Greenbaum I hear from friends that these rogue apps make an iPhone a lot more useful and fun to use then it was without them. Jailbreaking the iPhone isn’t something every iPhone user will want to do, but for those who take the jump, there are some really cool apps out there. Have you jailbroken your iPhon...
Episode 120: PowerPage Podcast
Original at The Apple Core
• Thu, Dec 10
By Jason D. O'Grady Episode 120 of the PowerPage Podcast has been posted. This week we discuss fraudulent App Store reviews, Chrome for Mac bring officially released, more Apple tablet conjecture, first of their kind broadcasting and dictation apps come to the App Store. And we play “What’s on your Mac?” Fea...
Apple Bans a Thousand Apps Over Review Fraud
Original at The Apple
• Tue, Dec 8
By Charles Jade A story that began 10 days ago with a blog posting at iPhoneography and a letter to Apple VP Phil Schiller has ended with Apple banning prolific developer Molinker from the App Store. The developer has been charged with review fraud (not to mention poor grammar).
Opinion: The App Store Opus and the Unasked Question
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Mon, Dec 7
• 2 related articles
By Charles Jade Which customers? That’s the real question. Who, exactly, is Apple trying to persuade that the App Store review process is not a mess? While personal technology enthusiasts and developers might care about the Byzantine nature of the App Store review process, the vast majority of iPhone a...
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Opinion: The App Store Opus and the Unasked Question
Original at The Apple
• Mon, Dec 7
• 2 related articles
By Charles Jade Which customers? That’s the real question. Who, exactly, is Apple trying to persuade that the App Store review process is not a mess? While personal technology enthusiasts and developers might care about the Byzantine nature of the App Store review process, the vast majority of iPhone a...
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Opinion: Does Steve Jobs Want A Kinder, Gentler App Approval Process?Original at BusinessWeek
• Mon, Nov 30
By Peter Burrows Dear Steve, Remember dropping out of school to drop in other classes to make it as an entrepreneur? I have admired you as an entrepreneur. I am a life long entrepreneur. I have never given up. I push my own rock up my mountain no matter how long it takes to get to the top, and love every minute of the j...
Opinion: Cut the Drama: Private APIs, the App Store & You
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Thu, Nov 19
By Andrew Bednarz These two headlines are actually the same story, a fact that was made quite apparent by a popular direct iPhone-to-iPhone messaging App called Ping!. On Ping!’s Facebook Page, the developer announced that the much-anticipated version 1.2 of Ping! has been rejected by Apple:
Opinion: Apple’s App Store Approval Process Now Includes an Automated Layer
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Tue, Nov 17
By Darrell Etherington It’s also technically fair, since Apple has said all along that private APIs are off-limits. The published reason being that Apple can’t confirm that said APIs will remain stable from release to release of the iPhone OS, meaning that something based on them might break every time an updat...
News: Apple Improves App Store Review Process Feedback
Original at pheedcontent.com
• Thu, Nov 12
• 2 related articles
iPhone and iPod touch application developers are finally getting a little more feedback from Apple on their status in the App Store review process. Instead of simply being told the average time from submission to approval, developers can now see when their app is being reviewed and when i...
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Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” IMPULSIVE REVIEW
Original at Apple Gazette
• Thu, Nov 5
By RJ Huneke Once the “Sonos Controller” App is downloaded for free in the Apple Store, the iPhone, or iPod Touch, becomes a customizable remote control. One can access all of the music from the network, make play-lists, tweet their friends, change the volume, or access Internet radio from the palm of...
Patch: Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes [IPhone]
Original at Gizmodo
• Tue, Nov 3
By John Herrman Apple can permanently patch the blacksn0w exploit in their next firmware update. You must download Cydia's "On File" system in case Apple blocks more exploits in future updates. It's still safe to run the tool, but keep in mind that Apple can—and probably will—patch the core exploit used b...
“Truth or Dare” IMPULSIVE REVIEW of Application
Original at Apple Gazette
• Sat, Oct 24
By RJ Huneke Grade: A When Apple said there was an App for everything, did they mean it? Look at the “Truth or Dare” application, and think on it. The “Truth or Dare” App for the iPhone is exactly what the name suggests, a Truth or Dare game. Download the free version, or splurge $1.99 on an [...]
My Thoughts: Apple’s Conflicting Stand On Piracy
Original at Apple Gazette
• Fri, Oct 16
By Lia This constant move on keeping the iPhone hack-free definitely shows that Apple is very much against piracy. But I guess I kind of understand why Apple is more vigilant with keeping the iPhone piracy-fee. In a way, I see it as Apple’s way to protect the iPhone App developers.
Podcast: In App Purchase Enables Free App Feature Unlocking
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Fri, Oct 16
• 2 related articles
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Apple has notified iPhone developers that the In App Purchase feature, previously restricted to paid apps, is now available for free apps as well. This is a huge change, and an about-face from the "Free apps remain free" response Apple originally gave in response to the question of using I...
Opinion: Rumor Has It: Apple Developing Radio App for iPhone and iPod touch
Original at TheAppleBlog
• Wed, Oct 14
By Liam Cassidy The ZuneHD has it. The latest iPod Nano has it. Even a chunky digital watch I owned when I was seven years old had it. I’m talking FM Radio, and the latest rumors tell us Apple is working on its very own native Radio.app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Podcast: TomTom Prices Car Kit for iPhone App
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Tue, Sep 29
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) TomTom will sell its car kit - a complement to its iPhone app - for $119.95 in the United States, £99.99 in the UK, and €99.99 in Europe. The car kit will ship in October 2009. The iPhone software is not included; TomTom offers several apps, each for a different part of the world. In what appears to be n...
Podcast: Pantone iPhone App Offers Enjoyable Color ExplorationOriginal at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Mon, Sep 21
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Because it's impossible to describe what a program about color does - I might as well dance about architecture - and because Apple doesn't have demo versions of iPhone apps, I created a 4-minute tour as a movie that should give you a good sense of how the program works.
Apple Told Us in July That ‘Voice’ App Would be Rejected, Google Says (Updated)
Original at Wired
• Fri, Sep 18
By Ryan Singel Updates with Apple statement to Silicon Alley Insider) In August, the FCC asked Google, Apple and AT&T to explain why Apple rejected the Google Voice app, which lets users make calls and send SMSes through a Google-provided number.
Somebody has to say it: it’s time for iTunes Lite
Original at Techcrunch
• Wed, Sep 9
By Devin Coldewey Facebook integration. Tweeting my music interests. AppleTV. Full-screen album extras. App management. An entire online store. Smart playlists. CD burning. Ringtone creation. Tips the scales at 88MB. All this in what is essentially the only music player on OS X. At some point enough is enough, and...
Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano
Original at Slashdot
• Wed, Sep 9
By Soulskill Apple just finished their latest press event, and they revealed a number of new services and features for their products. They kicked things off by saying that iPhone OS 3.1 is now available. It will add the Genius recommendation technology to the App store, giving users suggestions on whic...
Podcast: Vonage App Coming to iPhone
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Tue, Sep 1
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) With Vonage on an iPhone or iPod touch, you could have your home or office landline number also ring on your iPhone or iPod touch. And placing calls using the Vonage app while connected to a Wi-Fi network would also enable you to avoid using minutes from your cellular calling plan.
Opinion: Apple Responds to FCC's App Store Questions
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Fri, Aug 21
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Apple and AT&T -- In the response, Apple says, in the context of whether Apple acted in consultation with AT&T in rejecting the Google Voice app: Apple alone makes the final decisions to approve or not approve iPhone applications.
Apple To FCC: We're Still Studying Google Voice App
Original at BusinessWeek
• Fri, Aug 21
By Arik Hesseldahl Asked if AT&T has any role in approving applications that appear in the App store generally, Apple says it alone decides which apps make it into the store. However, "..There is a provision in Apple's agreement with AT&T that obligates Apple not to include functionality in any Apple...
Opinion: Apple Responds To FCC Over App Store Policies
Original at BusinessWeek
• Fri, Aug 21
By Peter Burrows Apple works with network providers around the world so that iPhone users have access to a cellular network. In the United States, we struck a groundbreaking deal with AT&T in 2006 that gives Apple the freedom to decide which software to make available for the iPhone. This was an industr...
AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store
Original at Engadget Mobile
• Fri, Aug 21
By Nilay Patel Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store
Original at Engadget
• Fri, Aug 21
By Nilay Patel Continue reading AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of...
App Store Lessons: App Emergencies
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Wed, Aug 12
By Erica Sadun Bad things happen. Despite all your user testing, sometimes an iPhone app release hits the wild with unexpected results. I recently heard about one application upgrade that passed Apple review, but that crashed when run on handsets that had a previously installed version of the app. Anoth...
Five Apps for movie nuts
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Sun, Aug 9
By David Winograd Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review Then came the iPhone/iPod Touch and things got considerably easier, although there is no clear demarcation of what service sells what, or where. I want to give you two alternatives, each using one of the two competing services.
What Apple could borrow from Domino's
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Fri, Aug 7
By Dave Caolo Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, Developer, App Store Ged and his coworkers at The Iconfactory have been waiting 12 days (as of this writing) for Apple to approve Ramp Champ, their next iPhone game. As Ged describes in the post, the waiting wouldn't be so bad if they knew wh...
App Store rejections tied to third party rights infringements
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Wed, Aug 5
By Erica Sadun It's obviously premature to assign an external motivation to Apple and TUAW has no evidence whatsoever that Apple is using these rejections to pave its way to a new market. At the same time, the timing of these rejections couldn't be worse. With Apple rumored to enter the e-book market somet...
Opinion: FCC Queries Apple, AT&T, and Google about Google Voice App
Original at TidBITS
• Mon, Aug 3
It looks as if Apple won't be able to fall back on the utterly lame "I can't go into granular detail" answer for why certain applications have been rejected and removed from the App Store. On 31-Jul-09, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent letters of inquiry to Apple, AT&...
Opinion: FCC Queries Apple, AT&T, and Google about Google Voice App
Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)
• Mon, Aug 3
By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) It looks as if Apple won't be able to fall back on the utterly lame "I can't go into granular detail" answer for why certain applications have been rejected and removed from the App Store. On 31-Jul-09, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent letters of inquiry to Apple, AT&...
Patent nonsense: News that could change the way we work and play
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Sun, Aug 2
By Steven Sande Last week provided a lot of legal fun for Apple, complete with news of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sending a letter to the company asking for information about the removal of the Google Voice app from the App Store, and word that upstart Mac cloner Psystar has retained a...
Hands on (a little late) with GV Mobile for jailbroken phones
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Fri, Jul 31
By Erica Sadun Filed under: iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage, App Review TUAWHands on (a little late) with GV Mobile for jailbroken phones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Yeah, there's an app for that. But for how long, and at what cost?
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Thu, Jul 30
By Michael Jones As the developers of GV Mobile and VoiceCentral recently discovered, Apple can take an app that was previously given the all-clear, decide that it now duplicates native functionality of the iPhone, and yank it from the App Store in a matter of minutes. Needless to say, there are some serio...
The Google Voice rejection: What's needed now
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Wed, Jul 29
By Erica Sadun When it comes to "duplicate functionality", Apple doesn't seem to have any problem allowing applications like AT&T co-branded Virtual Recptionist (iTunes link) in App Store. Virtual Receptionist provides custom call forwarding to three phone numbers, in a similar manner to Goo...
Opinion: GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Mon, Jul 27
By TJ Luoma This in loco parentis attitude from Apple hurts iPhone users and developers alike. Developers like Fraser Speirs have stopped developing new applications for the iPhone and he's not the only one. (Fraser's post on Twitter was how I heard how I heard about GV Mobile being pulled from the App...
Update: Promo codes again allowed for 17+ apps
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Sun, Jul 26
By Michael Jones Filed under: iPod Family, Apple, iPhone, App Store Thanks to the developers who sent this in!Update: Promo codes again allowed for 17+ apps originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
How Apple's App Review Is Sabotaging the iPhone
Original at Slashdot
• Mon, Jul 20
By kdawson snydeq writes to recommend Peter Wayner's inside look at the frustration iPhone developers face from Apple when attempting to distribute their apps through the iPhone App Store. Wayner's long piece is an extended analogy comparing Apple to the worst of Soviet-era bureaucracy. "Determ...
Patch: News: Apple quietly approving racy new 17+ content?
Original at iLounge
• Mon, Jul 20
By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Apple has begun allowing racy new content into appropriately-labeled applications, a new update suggests. Based on the tales of woe web site, F-MyLife by enormego has been updated to version 1.5.4, which, according to the release notes posted to the App Store listing, “[e]nables the ‘Sex...
App Store Lessons: No promo codes for apps rated 17+
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Thu, Jul 16
By Michael Jones So where is the problem? It's in the new app rating system that was released a few weeks ago. As it stands, neither the 3.0 software nor iTunes display parental warnings when using a promo code to purchase apps with a mature (17+) rating, so Apple has made the promo code functionality unavaila...
Opinion: Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store, anyone surprised? Updated
Original at Engadget
• Thu, Jun 25
By Nilay Patel And just like that, the iPhone App Store is once again safe for children, people at work, and those who enjoy the iron fist of an anonymous application reviewer gently controlling their hardware / software ecosystem. Yep, the "Hottest Girls" application has been yanked after just a few ho...
Opinion: Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store, anyone surprised? Updated
Original at Engadget Mobile
• Thu, Jun 25
By Nilay Patel And just like that, the iPhone App Store is once again safe for children, people at work, and those who enjoy the iron fist of an anonymous application reviewer gently controlling their hardware / software ecosystem. Yep, the "Hottest Girls" application has been yanked after just a few ho...
Opinion: App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Thu, Jun 11
By Erica Sadun originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Patch: News: Apple releases iTunes 8.2 ahead of iPhone OS 3.0
Original at iLounge
• Mon, Jun 1
• 8 related articles
By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Apple has released iTunes 8.2, the latest version of its digital media management software. According to Apple’s release notes, iTunes 8.2 supports “iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update,” and also includes “many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.” In April, App...
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iPhone OS 3.0 previewed and App Store changes
Original at Phones Review
• Mon, May 18
At Apple's event today, the iPhone 3.0 firmware was previewed and Apple also introduced some features which should have been there from the beginning; however we also learn that it is all about the Apple iTunes App Store, according to product-reviews. ...
iPhone OS 3.0 now being used for App Store admission reviews
Original at Engadget
• Thu, May 7
By Nilay Patel So this is interesting -- we were just forwarded an email from Apple informing iPhone developers that all future App Store testing and review will occur on iPhone OS 3.0 to prepare for a smooth transition this summer, and that incompatible applications won't be approved. Seeing as we're al...
Opinion: Free Max Calculator Apple iPhone App
Original at Phones Review
• Tue, Apr 28
Max Calculator was added to the Apple App Store on April 1st, so this means it is pretty new and free. Blow is a quick intro to this new application for all you iPhone users. We all know that we can put ourselves in danger when being overweight and ...
Opinion: The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE BILLION APPS [IPhone Apps]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Apr 24
By John Mahoney • Paul van Dyk Pitches You the Paul van Dyk iPhone App • Apple Hits One Billion Apps • Apple Apologizes for Approving Baby Shaker iPhone Game • Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Preview • iPhone 3.0 Will Have "Jibbler" Voice Controls, Talk Back to You Like iPod Shuffle
Billionth iPhone App Downloader Scores Freebies; Developer Wins Too
Original at Wired News
• Fri, Apr 24
By Eliot Van Buskirk Nine months after Apple began selling apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut downloaded the billionth application from the iTunes store. Apple, predictably, is celebrating the latest in its long run of iPhone- and iPod-related success...
A secret look into the iPhone App Review Process: It’s run by eight-year-olds
Original at CrunchGear
• Fri, Apr 24
By John Biggs Hot on the heels of the Great iPhone Baby-Shaking App Debacle of 2009 we have another example of the crack Apple iPhone App Review Team in action. Alkali Media, a little programming shop run by three college grads, decided to make a crude soundboard and entitled it, fittingly, CrudeBox. The...
Podcast: Apple Yanks Crass "Baby Shaker" iPhone AppOriginal at TidBITS
• Wed, Apr 22
Following a day-long eruption of protest on Twitter and in blogs, on Wednesday afternoon Apple removed an app from the App Store that allowed iPhone and iPod touch users to shake a picture of a baby to stop it from crying. The Baby Shaker app, which was posted for sale for 99 cents on Monday, is...
Patch: Apple releases second beta of iPhone 3.0 Software to developers
Original at Apple Insider
• Tue, Mar 31
Apple on Tuesday afternoon provided its vast developer community with a second beta release of iPhone Software 3.0, which arrived alongside a promise by the company to gradually open its live Push Notification service and In-App Purchasing to beta testers in the near term.
Podcast: Apple Adds Petite Aluminum Keyboard
Original at TidBITS
• Tue, Mar 3
Apple last week released a new Apple Keyboard, which offers Apple's sleek aluminum look and two extra USB 2.0 ports, but no numeric keypad. The keyboard costs $49 and requires that you be running at least Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard. In the recent past, if you wanted a small aluminum keyboard from App...
Apple's Updated Safari Browser: Hedging The App Store Bet
Original at BusinessWeek
• Tue, Feb 24
At the same time, however, he thinks Apple is smartly preparing to play in this future mobile Web, while currently cashing in on the App Store. He marvels that Apple made it possible for iPhone users to add their favorite websites on the home page of the device, next to all the apps they've dow...
How to Change Carrier and Banner On IPOD Touch or IPhoneOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 18
By rss@youtube.com (colling223) This is a quick video on how to change the carrier and Banner on IPod Touch or IPhone Author: colling223 Keywords: Apple Ipod IPhone App Store Jailbreak Added: February 18, 2009
How To: Remote AppOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 17
By rss@youtube.com (rav07) Here is a short video on how to install and use the remote app for the iTouch/iPhone! Author: rav07 Keywords: Apple App PC Ipod Touch iPhone mitch625 themightym94 macintoshgeek12 thecreativeone room setup nice cool help how to Added: February 17, 2009
Opinion: Test your hearing with Audiometry for the iPhone
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Wed, Feb 4
By Mike Schramm Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App Store via textually.org]Test your hearing with Audiometry for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of f...
Opinion: Apple Approves Smutty iPhone App By Mistake
Original at Two for Elbowing
• Mon, Dec 8
By chuqui Can we (and should we) expect all the apps Apple approves to be safe and secure? If Apple screws up, who is negligent for the damage caused? This time, Apple's mistake may have only involved naughty wallpaper, but next time, it could be something worse. Oh, the horrors. Apple isn't perfect.
External Link: iPhone Developers Can Now Give Out Review Copies
Original at TidBITS
• Thu, Dec 4
By ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Ars Technica is reporting that Apple has finally eliminated one of the top developer complaints about the iPhone App Store by making it possible for iPhone developers to give reviewers (or friends and family) a free copy of an app. Copyright © 2008 Adam C. Engst. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 T...
Opinion: Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies
Original at Engadget
• Fri, Nov 21
By Joshua Topolsky Recently we were sent a PR email about an iPhone app called BdEmailer. No big deal, press releases about new iPhone applications show up in our box in large bundles every day -- but this one was different. According to the release, the program is the "the first wide email iPhone app that suppor...
iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Nov 21
By Jesus Diaz iTunes and App Store • App store reorganization: The UI has been sightly reorganized and polished. The categories, for example, now display bigger and with icons. As I speculated in our iPhone 2.2 rumor round-up, the icons shown seem to show the top free application. Fixes
Opinion: Apple iPhone gets live TV streaming via Orb 2.0
Original at Phones Review
• Fri, Nov 21
UK - Orb 2.0, the media streaming application has now gone live on the Apple iPhone and is available from the Apple iTunes App Store. ... Stream live TV to your iPhone with OrbLive2.0 on App Store Product Reviews Picture messaging finally heading to iPhone Stuff.tv