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iPhone App Store

Apple Making App Store Easier for Devs – App Release Dates & Price Changes Can Now Be Automated

March 17, 2010

This looks like very good news for iPhone app developers. From Apple Insider’s report:
Apple this week unlocked new tools that allow iPhone developers and publishers to pre-set the release date of their applications and schedule price changes.
The new features appeared in the web-based iTunesConnect interface that application publishers — and all other [...]

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‘Little Guy’ Developers Still Doing Well in the App Store

March 16, 2010

The latest set of smartphone ‘industry pulse’ data from Flurry Analytics has some encouraging numbers for smaller, startup type iPhone app developers and publishers. As seen above, Flurry estimates that native iPhone developers account for 20% in the ‘Heritage Pie’ chart, second only to Online Gaming.

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Hooters iPhone Calendar App: In, Banned, Back In, Banned Again

March 13, 2010

Somebody needs to fire up a daytime soap called ‘As the App Store Turns’ real soon. It seems to become more and more of a bad soap opera all the time just lately. Just the new policy on no ‘overtly sexual’ apps could probably keep its own reality show going.
KRAPPS has the lowdown [...]

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App Store Success Stories: Doodle Jump Hits 3 Million Sales

March 9, 2010

Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer’s fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they’ve got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling.
Tomorrow morning, Lima Sky will be announcing that Doodle [...]

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All WiFi-Detecting Apps Yanked From the App Store

March 4, 2010

In yet another bizarre, head-scratching move, Apple has removed all apps that allow the iPhone and iPod Touch to detect nearby Wifi networks, such as WiFiTrack and WiFiFoFum.
The explanation from a few of the affected developers is that the apps were removed because they used “private frameworks” to collect information on the wireless networks nearby. [...]

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Just When You Thought App Store Decisions Couldn’t Get Any Stupider …

March 2, 2010

Now an iPhone app gets rejected for ‘minimal user functionality’

We’re still seeing all the repercussions from Apple’s recent ban on ‘overtly sexual’ apps, and they’re typically inconsistent application of the new policy. Now they appear to have made another, equally stupid, change of course on what is acceptable in the App Store – [...]

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Crazy App Store Numbers: Plants vs Zombies Nets $1 Million in 9 Days

February 26, 2010

More than 300,000 iPhone and iPod touch owners have shelled out to download Plants vs. Zombies since its App Store debut nine days ago.
The popular game from PopCap, priced at $2.99, has in fact netted the developer more than $1 million so far, leading to the claim that it has set a new [...]

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New Explicit Category Coming to the App Store Soon? [iPhone App Store]

February 24, 2010

Just days after Apple removed over 5000 "overtly sexual" applications from the App Store, the company appears to have taken a curious turn that could result in the reinstatement of many of these applications.

Cult of Mac reports and MacRumors has confirmed that Apple has added a new "Explicit" category in the iTunes Connect [...]

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Shocker: New App Store ‘Sexy Apps’ Policy Causing Ridiculous Rejections, Reversals, and Plenty of Criticism

February 23, 2010

Who woulda thunk that Apple’s new shift in App Store policy – the one that now has them banning ‘overtly sexual’ apps from the store – would end up causing controversy, ridicule, and daft decisions and decision reversals when it comes to individual apps affected by it?
Sure enough, just a few days after the [...]

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Recommended: KRAPPS’ Take on Latest App Store Banning of ‘Overtly Sexual’ Apps [iPhone App Store]

February 19, 2010

Today’s big App Store news is that Apple has decided to oust all apps that contain ‘overtly sexual’ content. This is being reported by tons of sites, but our friends over at KRAPPS have one of the best rundowns on it, as they’ve been following Apple’s gradually increasing intolerance of ‘smut apps’ from the [...]

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When Genius for Apps Goes Wrong [iPhone App Store]

February 18, 2010

Genius for Apps – Apple’s iPhone app recommendations feature built into the App Store since the release of the iPhone OS 3.1 update – seems to be learning from my installed and purchased apps pretty well. It offers up some decent app recommendations most of the time after a few months of being [...]

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