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The popular Napster streaming and download music service won’t be coming to Apple’s iPhone via the App Store per a mocoNews report. According to the story, a rep from Napster said the service, which would be offered at [...]

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While it’s apparent that Apple is at least trying to make its iPhone App platform easier to stomach for developers, the company is still not pleasing everyone.
[BusinessInsider] Digg engineer-turned-iPhone developer Joe Stump is the latest to write an angry, [...]

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Word has it that Apple has brought App Store rejection notices to a whole new low. It has been shown that Apple has stopped informing developers what the problem with their application is, if rejected.
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As if [...]

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This is the story of an epic fail.
Those of you who have been following releases in the App Store may remember the arrival of a little app called Santa Live around mid-November.  It was the brainchild of Adam Majewski, CEO of Casual Game Network, [...]

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Peter Hosey, especially known for his Growl (App Store) and Adium (pre-App Store) applications, has had the idea of starting a website where he can display any and all iPhone applications that Apple [...]

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Apparently the Tetris Company and Tetris Holdings LLC have complained about another Tetris-like game on which has been available on the App Store for over a month now.
The game was called “Shaker”, and had the basic idea [...]

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Okay.  I overlooked the fact that Apple have done some futzing with Safari Mobile where clearly it wasn’t needed.  But this … this simply will not do.
For the last two days something odd was going on with the App Store.  Whenever [...]

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The developers of BreakClassic and BreakTouch 3D posted on the TouchArcade forums on September 17th that Atari insisted they remove their game from the App Store.
Usually when this happens, the company asking [...]

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Oh, Atari, how the mighty have fallen.  From Bushnell to Warner, things were awesome — at least until the Great Crash of ‘83/84.  After that, Atari never seemed to recover.  Jack Tramiel took it over in ‘84 and the company chugged [...]

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Are you interested in getting into iPhone development? Y’know, having your very own application on the iPhone App Store?…
Well if you are, have you any idea what-so-ever as to what you may be getting yourself into? Probably not, right?
No [...]

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According to Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, there are many iPhone game and application developers getting raged at Apple’s application approval process.
It is known that one developer in particular had designed an application for the iPhone [...]

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Noah Witherspoon has agreed to have Tris removed from the iPhone App Store on Wednesday because of copyright infringement. The developers of Tetris offer their own app on the App Store for just short of $10, which Tris [...]

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Remember Flying Rider, the Line Rider clone? You remember how the developers of Line Rider were hassling the developer of Flying Rider to remove it from the App Store, right?
Well, I’m anxious to [...]

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You read that correctly.
Flying Rider is being removed from the App Store tomorrow, so for those of you whom wish to try it out, you better get on downloading it now and giving it a try, [...]

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