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Napster Opts Out of Streaming Application for App Store

Date September 2, 2009


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 Best Buy stores, is not being sent out for Apple approval because of the high licensing fees [...]

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“We’re Getting F—ed By Apple,” Says iPhone Developer

Date September 2, 2009


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, public rant to Apple. But his, unlike some others, is peppered with entertaining swear words! (It’s [...]

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Dropbox App for iPhone Submitted for App Store Approval

Date August 30, 2009


That little sketch above, from the Dropbox Blog post on this, is exactly how I felt when I spotted this news. Dropbox’s iPhone app has been submitted to the App Store – last week – and is just awaiting approval.[JAiPB] I’ve used a number of online backup / file sync apps on the desktop, [...]

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Big Game Publishers Making Their Way to the App Store

Date July 18, 2009


While many of the early successful iPhone and iPod touch games came from small-time developers, big-name content creators like Electronic Arts, id Software and Konami are flocking to the platform, using their brands and marketing muscle to compete.
The App Store has about 13,000 games in 19 separate categories, ranging from old-fashioned board games to complex [...]

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No Promo Codes Available for Apps Rated 17+

Date July 18, 2009


Developers will notice that applications that are rated 17+, and are submitted to the App Store do not come with up-to-50 promo codes that you would receive otherwise.
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 [...]

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Over 1.5 Billion App Store Downloads in First Year

Date July 14, 2009


Apple has earlier today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from the Apple App Store. Aside from such, there are more than 65,000 apps available on the App Store, and there are officially over 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program working on releasing these thousands of [...]

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iPhone OS 3.0-Compatible Apps Showing Up on the App Store

Date June 15, 2009


 
Tap Tap Revenge [iTunes link] has been updated to version 2.6, featuring compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0. By my knowledge, this is the first application to support proper compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 features.
Using Apple’s upcoming Push Notification features, Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 would most likely advise you of incoming challenges that others have sent [...]

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15 Apps Rendered Obsolete Because of iPhone 3G S and OS 3.0

Date June 14, 2009


I’m sure most of the world’s people were happy to hear about Apple’s new iPhone 3G S to be available on June 19th, and their upcoming iPhone OS v3.0 to be available on June 17th. But I can assure you that there are a select few people out there that are not nearly as happy-go-happy [...]

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Apple’s Crappy New Way of Rejecting App Store Applications

Date June 13, 2009


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.
Image via TUAW
As if there weren’t already enough problems with Apple’s App Store review process already, it is now being said [...]

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iPhone App Store 20% on its way to 100k Applications

Date February 14, 2009


As the title reads, it has been officially announced that the iPhone App Store has over 20,000 applications available for download. Some of which are free, and some of which will cost you much more than a pretty penny.
This announcement was made official on February 10th by Apptism, a site that tracks and rates App [...]

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A Crap Load of Farting Apps, All of which are, Sadly, Available on the App Store

Date February 13, 2009


TUAW recently uploaded a video to YouTube, providing a sneak peek at several dozen of the ever-too-many farting applications available on the App Store. How many farting apps are there on the App Store exactly? Over 60. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Have a look at the video via YouTube by clicking here.
It’s safe to say that my [...]

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App Store on Pace to a Billion?

Date January 19, 2009


Plastered across the front page of Apple’s website is the exciting news that the App Store has reached 500 million downloads. While it took the App Store nearly 6 months to reach the 300 million mark, the holiday shopping season proved to be a success as we saw that number almost double in merely one [...]

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App Store Spotlight: Escape

Date January 4, 2009


App Name:
Escape

Developer:
Nuclear Nova Software

Version:
1.0

Publisher:
Nuclear Nova Software

Size:
4 MB

Category:
Logic & Puzzle Games

Price:
$2.99/$4.99

Around the middle of last October I reviewed the lite version of Nuclear Nova’s GL Golf.  Those of you who remember may recall that I wasn’t entirely too pleased with it, as among other things, it looked like an early [...]

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SimCity for iPhone/iPod Touch is LIVE!

Date December 17, 2008


Some very well developed games are cruising to the App Store recently including some new games from Tapulous, a clean Tower Defense game and for the ever anticipated Rolando that’s due out tommorow! But today, it’s Sim City that everyones eyes are on.
This EA Games release will almost has the same functionality as the PC [...]

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