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We certainly aren’t used to Apple leaking such meaty details so easily, but as it seems there is a mention of the January 27th event in the Apples agreement with iPhone app developers. This update to the developer agreement hasn’t leaked any specific details, but just lists “Placeholder Agreement: Need to update this for the [...]
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It has been quite a interesting week for Apple, Google and AT&T. First Apple banned the official Google Voice and related apps from the iTunes AppStore and then FCC started its inquiry on the matter.
Google Voice assigns a single phone number to a user’s cellphone, land line or Internet phone accounts. It also allows free [...]
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The iTunes Appstore recently celebrated its 1st birthday with 1.5 billion app downloads and 65000 apps live on the store. A great milestone for Apple and iPhone developers, this is also the cause of worry for Apple and its developers. Apparently majority of the iPhone developers are suffering from a problem of discoverability. Users are [...]
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App Store developers now have another reason to hate Apple Apparently Apple is not allowing them to give away promo codes for apps that are rated as 17+. A developer can normally give away 50 promo codes for any app published on the iTunes AppStore. These promo codes are given away by developers [...]
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College courses to teach app development commenced long back and now comes a ebook that will leave you poorer by $50 approx but teach you how to sell those killer apps for the iPhone / iPod Touch. Titled “Secrets Of iPhone App Marketing: How To Get Your App Noticed & Increase Your Sales”, this ebook [...]
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Probably came to my notice late, but its disappointing to see App developers add all competitor app names in their description (previously seen in App Title aswell) to gain extra eyeballs via searches on the iTunes app store. While Apple has done well to get 35000+ apps live on the AppStore (and reject some [...]
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While all OS 2.x apps are expected to support the OS 3.0, there can be instances where some of these do not work. Apple recently announced to developers that Apps which are not compliant with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 would be scrapped from the AppStore and it seems that developers are updating their apps right [...]
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Another submission to App Store rejected by Apple for funny reasons. Ebook reader Eucalyptus has been denied entry to the Appstore as searching for Kama Sutra over the app gives obscene results that Apple wont accept:
“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, [...]
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Another addition to the banned AppStore apps. Me So Holy app (also referred as the Jesus App) that allowed you to dress up your images like a god has been rejected by Apple. According to Apple the app contains objectionable content.
About the app:
Me So Holy allows users to put their faces within a religious figure, [...]
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Apple has had a tough year with iPhone developers. Firstly there was lot of protest over unreasonable rejections faced by deserving apps and then the return policy / payment issue. However now as Apple gets ready to unveil the iPhone OS 3, the developers are planning to sue them for non payment.
Many iPhone developers have [...]
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Push notifications is something that App Developers and iPhone fans have been waiting since long. Originally it was expected that the firmware version 2.2.1 from apple would enable Push Notifications.
Background tasks cannot be run currently on the iPhone making IM applications useless unless they are kept open all the time. The same holds true for [...]
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Being an iPhone developer is like sitting on a gold mine today. If you manage to get the right apps out on the AppStore you could end up with a mini fortune in no time. But the iPhone SDK released to developers for building apps is the source of raw material for Jailbreakers and hackers.
Apple [...]
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This one is for all the curious sparkling geeks out there with lots of great ideas for a new iPhone application but with just no clue whatsoever on how to build one. Stanford is bringing in a course for you to give wings to all your imaginations regarding an iPhone application. The “how-to-build-an-iPhone-app” course will be [...]
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AppStore has changed the way SmartPhones work. It has opened up a huge alternate income source for manufactures and at the same time a great opportunity for developers. But a recently added clause to the Apple app store developer agreement is worrying many.
Apparently Appstore buyers can claim refund for an app upto 90 days from [...]
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Last month we heard lot of cries from appStore app developers about Apple’s Attitude!! And one of them was the developers of an app called Podcaster. The app was rejected by Apple as it resembled one of its own service.
Though this didn’t made any sense to many of us back then, as Apple didn’t offer [...]
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Ajax now used widely on the WWW
Developing AJAX applications for the Apple Mobile Platform would be one of the key discussions at iPhone Developer Summit – March 18-20, 2008 New York City. Aptana’s Chris Williams shall share tips, tricks and other advices for developers aspiring to develop AJAX web applications for the iPhone and the [...]
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Apple is conducting free tech talks for Apple iPhone developers around the world from October 22 to December 9. There will be 24 sessions in all across the globe where developers get a chance to interact with Apple engineer.
Apple certainly is looking to cement its future with the iPhone platform and it would be interesting [...]
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The upcoming iPhone firmware v2.2 has some more features, apart from the updated Safari browser some exciting new addons can be found.
The most significant of these being a support for Google Street View inside Google Maps. Street view is a Google service that has been accommodated in the recent Android release G1.
Another much needed update [...]
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Google is all set to gain momentum with Android. And it already has some great plans for the AppStore rival: ‘Android Market’! Apparently the AppStore is tightly held by Apple and developers have limited freedom. However Google’s mantra with Android has been OPEN OPEN OPEN! And thats how they expect to lead with the Android [...]
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Over the past few weeks we have heard more than a few developers cry about Apple’s attitute towards AppStore applications. Many rejection letters and their content have leaked to blogs and this certainly created -ve PR for Apple and its AppStore.
To curb these instances, Apple is reminding its developers that the contents of their Rejection [...]
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Apple is working hard on iPhone software and according to reports the beta version of the firmware v2.2 has been sent to developers for testing.
It is rumored that Background Push notifications has made it to the 2.2 firmware (that was removed from 2.1 to better concentrate on bug fixes). Also expected is a improved GPS [...]
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Apple is known to keep tight control on things, and the latest to realise how frustrating it can be are the iPhone App Developers. Apparently many developers are unhappy over the tight screening process for any App to make it through the AppStore.
Apple doesn’t allow any thing that even remotely resembles any of its own [...]
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