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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Filming with my iPhone 3GS at the Apple StoreVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Dec 21

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By rss@youtube.com (qkenihan) Author: qkenihan Keywords: Apple Iphone App Added: December 21, 2009

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Original at Grouper external link    Tue, Mar 31

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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...

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Original at Grouper external link    Tue, Mar 24

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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...

Year 2008

 

Rate Video: How to Setup Palringo on your iPhone (3G) or iPod touchVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Aug 16

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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

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Jul 10

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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

Stories

January of 2010

 

Rate Fring iPhone App Allows Skype Calls over 3GVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gizmodo external link    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.

Rate Why the iPad May Yet Be Good News For Newspapers

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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...

Rate AT&T sells 3.1 million iPhones, Google VoIP app hits iPhone, iStunt game free today

Original at iPhone Buzz external link    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...

Rate News: Quicktime video of iPad unveiling event now available

Original at iLounge external link    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...

Rate Why the Jury's Still Out on the Apple iPad

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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.

Rate iBooks App & iBookstore

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    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...

Rate News: Apple Announces 140,000 Apps on iPhone App Store

Original at pheedcontent.com external link    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...

Rate Google Voice comes to iPhone and webOS, as a web app

Original at Engadget external link    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...

Rate Apple's Cook embraces AT&T, defends App Store

Original at Macworld external link    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.

Rate Acer Takes On Apple and Amazon in E-book Readers and App Downloads

Original at BloggingStocks external link    Mon, Jan 25

By Brian White Filed under: Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)

Rate Create an App in 27 Seconds? AppMakr Reviewed

Original at Apple Gazette external link    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.

Rate Qik made this announcement this week especially noteworthy for iPhone users

Original at palmaddict.typepad.com external link    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...

Rate Apple's App Store said to have 99.4 percent of all mobile app sales, more like 97.5

Original at Engadget external link    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...

Rate That’s Why I Pay $99 A Year – MobileMe Galley App Released

Original at Apple Gazette external link    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...

Rate Product News: Apple Intros MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone

Original at pheedcontent.com external link    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.

Rate How Much Does Apple Care About App Store Looting?

Original at Gizmodo external link    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...

Rate $450 million iPhone piracy figure not grounded in reality

Original at Ars Technica external link    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...

Rate Unauthorized iPhone news readers raise eyebrows

Original at Engadget external link    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...

Rate WANTED Poster For iPhone Pics Made by Framed! App

Original at Apple Gazette external link    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...

Rate Apple App Store has lost $450 million due to piracy

Original at palmaddict.typepad.com external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Subscribe to TidBITS on the Kindle

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    Mon, Jan 4    4 related articles

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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...

December of 2009

 

Rate IMPULSIVE Review of Awful “Bouncedown” App

Original at Apple Gazette external link    Tue, Dec 22

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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...

Rate Brief: App Store success several times what Apple likely expected

Original at Ars Technica external link    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...

Rate Opinion: Apple Making Mobile Safari Web Apps Better, Faster, Stronger

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    Wed, Dec 16

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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...

Rate There’s (Not) An App for That: 10 Apps Only Available for Jailbroken iPhones

Original at The Apple external link    Fri, Dec 11

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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...

Rate Episode 120: PowerPage Podcast

Original at The Apple Core external link    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...

Rate Apple Bans a Thousand Apps Over Review Fraud

Original at The Apple external link    Tue, Dec 8

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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).

Rate Opinion: The App Store Opus and the Unasked Question

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    Mon, Dec 7    2 related articles

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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...

Rate Opinion: The App Store Opus and the Unasked Question

Original at The Apple external link    Mon, Dec 7    2 related articles

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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...

Rate Opinion: Does Steve Jobs Want A Kinder, Gentler App Approval Process?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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...

November of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Cut the Drama: Private APIs, the App Store & You

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    Thu, Nov 19

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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:

Rate Opinion: Apple’s App Store Approval Process Now Includes an Automated Layer

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    Tue, Nov 17

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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...

Rate News: Apple Improves App Store Review Process Feedback

Original at pheedcontent.com external link    Thu, Nov 12    2 related articles

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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...

Rate Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” IMPULSIVE REVIEW

Original at Apple Gazette external link    Thu, Nov 5

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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...

Rate Patch: Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes [IPhone]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Tue, Nov 3

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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...

October of 2009

 

Rate “Truth or Dare” IMPULSIVE REVIEW of Application

Original at Apple Gazette external link    Sat, Oct 24

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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 [...]

Rate My Thoughts: Apple’s Conflicting Stand On Piracy

Original at Apple Gazette external link    Fri, Oct 16

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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.

Rate Podcast: In App Purchase Enables Free App Feature Unlocking

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    Fri, Oct 16    2 related articles

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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...

Rate Opinion: Rumor Has It: Apple Developing Radio App for iPhone and iPod touch

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    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.

September of 2009

 

Rate Podcast: TomTom Prices Car Kit for iPhone App

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Pantone iPhone App Offers Enjoyable Color ExplorationVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    Mon, Sep 21

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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.

Rate Apple Told Us in July That ‘Voice’ App Would be Rejected, Google Says (Updated)

Original at Wired external link    Fri, Sep 18

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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.

Rate Somebody has to say it: it’s time for iTunes Lite

Original at Techcrunch external link    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...

Rate Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano

Original at Slashdot external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Vonage App Coming to iPhone

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    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.

August of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Apple Responds to FCC's App Store Questions

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    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.

Rate Apple To FCC: We're Still Studying Google Voice App

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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...

Rate Opinion: Apple Responds To FCC Over App Store Policies

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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...

Rate AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store

Original at Engadget Mobile external link    Fri, Aug 21

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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.

Rate AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store

Original at Engadget external link    Fri, Aug 21

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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...

Rate App Store Lessons: App Emergencies

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Aug 12

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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...

Rate Five Apps for movie nuts

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sun, Aug 9

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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.

Rate What Apple could borrow from Domino's

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Fri, Aug 7

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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...

Rate App Store rejections tied to third party rights infringements

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Aug 5

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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...

Rate Opinion: FCC Queries Apple, AT&T, and Google about Google Voice App

Original at TidBITS external link    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&...

Rate Opinion: FCC Queries Apple, AT&T, and Google about Google Voice App

Original at tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) external link    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&...

Rate Patent nonsense: News that could change the way we work and play

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sun, Aug 2

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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...

Rate Hands on (a little late) with GV Mobile for jailbroken phones

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Fri, Jul 31

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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.

July of 2009

 

Rate Yeah, there's an app for that. But for how long, and at what cost?

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Thu, Jul 30

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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...

Rate The Google Voice rejection: What's needed now

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Jul 29

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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...

Rate Opinion: GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Mon, Jul 27

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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...

Rate Update: Promo codes again allowed for 17+ apps

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sun, Jul 26

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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.

Rate How Apple's App Review Is Sabotaging the iPhone

Original at Slashdot external link    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...

Rate Patch: News: Apple quietly approving racy new 17+ content?

Original at iLounge external link    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...

Rate App Store Lessons: No promo codes for apps rated 17+

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Thu, Jul 16

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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...

June of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store, anyone surprised? Updated

Original at Engadget external link    Thu, Jun 25

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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...

Rate Opinion: Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store, anyone surprised? Updated

Original at Engadget Mobile external link    Thu, Jun 25

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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...

Rate Opinion: App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Thu, Jun 11

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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.

Rate Patch: News: Apple releases iTunes 8.2 ahead of iPhone OS 3.0

Original at iLounge external link    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...

Year 2009

 

Rate iPhone OS 3.0 previewed and App Store changes

Original at Phones Review external link    Mon, May 18

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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. ...

Rate iPhone OS 3.0 now being used for App Store admission reviews

Original at Engadget external link    Thu, May 7

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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...

Rate Opinion: Free Max Calculator Apple iPhone App

Original at Phones Review external link    Tue, Apr 28

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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 ...

Rate Opinion: The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE BILLION APPS [IPhone Apps]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, Apr 24

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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

Rate Billionth iPhone App Downloader Scores Freebies; Developer Wins Too

Original at Wired News external link    Fri, Apr 24

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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...

Rate A secret look into the iPhone App Review Process: It’s run by eight-year-olds

Original at CrunchGear external link    Fri, Apr 24

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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...

Rate Podcast: Apple Yanks Crass "Baby Shaker" iPhone AppVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at TidBITS external link    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...

Rate Patch: Apple releases second beta of iPhone 3.0 Software to developers

Original at Apple Insider external link    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.

Rate Podcast: Apple Adds Petite Aluminum Keyboard

Original at TidBITS external link    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...

Rate Apple's Updated Safari Browser: Hedging The App Store Bet

Original at BusinessWeek external link    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...

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Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Feb 18

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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

Rate How To: Remote AppVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Feb 17

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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

Rate Opinion: Test your hearing with Audiometry for the iPhone

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Feb 4

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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...

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Rate Opinion: Apple Approves Smutty iPhone App By Mistake

Original at Two for Elbowing external link    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.

Rate External Link: iPhone Developers Can Now Give Out Review Copies

Original at TidBITS external link    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...

Rate Opinion: Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies

Original at Engadget external link    Fri, Nov 21

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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...

Rate iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, Nov 21

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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

Rate Opinion: Apple iPhone gets live TV streaming via Orb 2.0

Original at Phones Review external link    Fri, Nov 21

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 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

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