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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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Lovely iPhone Rumor of the Day: Next Model to Have Lower Total Cost of Ownership

February 28, 2010

From an Apple Insider article yesterday:
Apple’s next update to the blockbuster iPhone handset is expected by one prominent analyst to have a lower total cost of ownership, and to also include new gesture-based functionality.
Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley maintains that the biggest barrier to greater iPhone adoption is the cost of the hardware, [...]

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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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The most compelling argument for the lack of wireless syncing on the iPhone thus far

February 22, 2010

Nick Cernis runs a site called the Modern Nerd with a very, very cool logo and a lot of great content. He’s also the developer of Put Things Off, the “let’s be realistic” task manager that Patrick reviewed a little while back. Cernis recently published a post titled “That Syncing Feeling” that lays out his [...]

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New iPhone TV Ad Shows off Multitasking – Oh The Irony

February 22, 2010

One of Apple’s two new iPhone TV ads highlights its multitasking ability.  It shows off  what you can do while on a phone call – checking email, buying a game in the App Store etc.
On the one hand, OK, this is a sort of an answer to those who say it can’t multitask at all.  [...]

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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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Apple Banning iPhone Hackers from the App Store [iPhone jailbreak]

February 15, 2010

Just days after a scrappy young iPhone hacked discovered an unlock exploit for OS 3.1.3 baseband 05.12.01, Sherif Hashim received an ominous message on his iPhone after attempting to log into iTunes: “This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons.” Proving that this is not an isolated incident, fellow hacker iH8sn0w responded to [...]

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Valentines Day Card for Mac Fanboys & Girls

February 13, 2010

Now that’s a big, bold statement of true love. Any of you man (or woman) enough to go with that one?
It’s an e-greeting from someecards if you need one.
Via: Gizmodo

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It’s About Time – Apple Surveying Developers on The App Store

February 9, 2010

I love a good App Store Craziness story as much as the next guy – but I always feel bad for iPhone developers each time we see another tale of loony rejections, absurd inconsistencies, and lack of communication from Apple.
So I’m very happy to hear that Apple is making an effort to get developers’ [...]

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Apple Now Allows VOIP Over 3G on the iPhone

January 28, 2010

Apple has apparently lifted its ban on VOIP over 3G on the iPhone.  Very good news for apps like Skype and many others offering VOIP calling iPhone apps.  In fact, there are already a couple offering support for this.  iCall – whose icon I have mangled for the above screencap – is one and [...]

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Apple’s iPad Launch Event Video Is Up Now

January 27, 2010

Apple’s video of Steve Jobs’ presentation of the new iPad today is up at their site now for our viewing pleasure.
Here’s where to find it:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html

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