Apple: This is out of control. I’m not sure if these people are going for the award of Self-Proclaimed Kings of CrapApp or what, but this is getting to be a tad ridiculous. I mean I’m not against anyone trying to make money by selling their application on the App Store. Heck, if I had one shred of coding ability I’d already have a couple out on the store, but I know for sure I would not have 20 applications that all do the same thing!
Look, reality is this is just plain lazy coding and application whoring. They have one decent countdown application. One. They then took what was a good idea (the countdown program) and slapped 19 new icons on it and sent it to Apple 19 more times. All these applications do the same dammed thing (I’m sure if Apple checked the code they would see its almost line for line identical in the function/method), they take an input (some date in the future) then count down to that date. THAT’S IT!
Fix this Apple. You seem to be able to kick out perfectly useful applications … why not use that effort to kick out the useless CrapApps like this. ZATZ can quite easily re-label and re-icon the ONE useful program they have written here and re-launch it on the App Store.
Before anyone hops all over me for posting politics - let me remind you of something that’s somewhat important to know - I can’t vote, so while I do care, I don’t care. I’m pro-bama but not completely Anti-McCain. I truly believe in the concept of “divided we fail”.
Alright … my stupid views aside, this is really cool.
I think we may have achieved a record for the launch of such a complex app in such a short period, and many excellent features were dropped for lack of time. It was really fun to develop, knowing the power of features like Call Friends (which sorts your address book by key battleground states) and Get Involved (which uses CoreLocation to direct you to the nearest Obama Headquarters). The app was designed as a means to donate your time in discreet segments — we call it ‘micro-volunteering’.
First, what makes this cool is that they managed all of this in a month, and second they all volunteered their time to make this happen. They aren’t charging for the application, they’re simply doing what they know best in an effort to do their part in the election. So, if you’re an Obama supporter take a minute head on over to iTunes and download this wonderful effort.
Alright, cut to the chase time. This is going to be a bit of a different review from what you’re used to seeing come through most blog sites including this one. I’ve already done a review of the iPhone invisibleSHIELD full body shield a short while back so I’m not going to rehash the entire thing. I could go through all the things I went through before, but to be honest most of it remains the same. So, you’re wondering what am I going to do? Well, click on through to find out!
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.
I looked at Billy Frontier a while ago (see here) and at the time the price had gone back to its normal price of $5.99 which caused me to give it a “meh” rating. I recommended they drop it back to the introductory price of $2.99 because I personally thought it would fare pretty well at that level. Well they did that and now they’ve done one better — the mega sale price is only $0.99!!
Honestly - having played the game and still playing the game - 99 cents is a great deal. Jump on it!
I’m going to shamelessly grab the details on this from TUAW and leave you to go and download it yourself. But after a long day… at least there was a little bit to smile about!
Some of the new features are:
Facebook Chat
Address book lookup
New, easier to use interface, including notifications and the full news feed
Write on friends’ walls and view their full profiles
Photo tags (holding your finger down on the photo will show them)
People search, friend requests and your full inbox/inbox search
Need I say more? Ok - I will. YAY! No more Bullshit reviews that are nothing more than - “this apps sucks - it should be free because I don’t think you should charge me for anything. Everything should be free” OR “You want me to spend a dollar on THIS?!”
Unfortunately, now we won’t get to see as many gems like this one:
Maybe now the star ratings will actually mean something?!
Consider this another one of those moments when reading what I have to say is NOT the thing you should be doing right now. Yes, I know it happens all too often - but really. Stop reading and click the link below to go to the App Store and pick up eWallet for CHEAP! (Limited Time = Oct. 3rd)
So, you’re an independent iPhone developer and you have the next great app. But, you know if that app hits the app store and doesn’t work worth a poop … that app will be DOA. It’ll be ripped to shreds in seconds by the millions of users in the store and the millions of bloggers and you’re chances of making any money will end up down the tubes in a heartbeat. So what do you do? Well, you beta test that’s what. Now - where do you find beta testers? Until now - that’s been a tough question to answer.
Not so anymore. Welcome onto the scene - iBetaTest.com!
Now, iBetaTest.com is not a fully live site yet, but you can get on there, get registered as either a developer or a tester and they’ll let you know when things start taking off. So, click on for the press release and then click on through to iBetaTest.com to get signed up!
Engadget Editor-at-Large has just done what Engadget does best and taken a well worded, on-topic, heartfelt shot and put it straight across the bow of Apple. It’s a great post - GO READ IT.
So it seems to me, you have two possible courses of action to clean up this mess, Apple: one, the bare minimum of courtesy and respect for its developers, and the other, full-on-righteous. If absolutely nothing else, you need to post some very clear, very easily interpreted guidelines as to what will and will not fly in the App Store. No more mystery, no more concern as to whether the investment associated with developing a program will be for naught if some faceless App Store approval technician semi-arbitrarily decides to hit reject. Just lay it out for all to bear and follow. Sure, there will be a lot of hating going on when Apple says in explicit terms that Mozilla has zero hope of ever getting Firefox on the iPhone, but at least the crippling uncertainty is removed from the equation. You shouldn’t have to be one of the hallowed few approved by the iFund to be certain before you start work on your app that it will be approved.
Apple could even give Nintendo a run for its money – playing video games on the iPhone is a joy, with users simply having to tilt and rotate the iPhone to control the actions of on-screen characters. — The Telegraph
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