technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 11/24/2008
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Ah, the circus that is the App Store approval process. While it appears that Google's new voice-enabled Mobile App slipped through the approval process despite some SDK no-nos , so did a far-too an innocent sounding app, Wallpaper Universe. Wallpaper Universe (since removed) by FunMobility ...
Nearly 1/4 of the App Store is Games
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 3/9/2009 — We knew the game category was popular at the iPhone / iPod Touch App Store, but this popular? According to iPhone app tracking site MobClix , that number now exceeds 6,000. The number, according to MobClix, is 6,276, or 23.1% of the total. Moreover, puzzle games take nearly 18% of the game ...
Apple wants to squelch rogue iPhone app store
techspot.com 3/10/2009 — Last week, we began to hear about some of the first rogue iPhone App stores that began to appear. Attempting to cut out Apple, these unauthorized stores were largely developer-backed, for reasons ranging from increasing profit to getting around Apple's strict App Store entrance rules. To ...
App Store Incorrectly Rejects App Over "Undocumented API Use"
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 12/16/2008 — A developer has had his app rejected by Apple's App Store because he used undocumented APIs. Problem is, he didn't. Landon Fuller developed a photo contact management system called Peeps. On his blog, he outlined the rejection: Upon review of your ...
App Store Censors Wake Up; Nine Inch Nails App Approved
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 5/8/2009 — After rejecting an updated Nine Inch Nails app the other day for no good reason, the draconian censors at the App Store decided to relent, and approved the app sans changes. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor announced the approval via Twitter : NEWS FLASH: Apple has approved the NIN iPhone ...
Apple: Over Two Billion App Store Downloads Served
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 9/28/2009 — One has to wonder, given the growth of App Store downloads for the iPhone and iPod touch, if the App Store could ever pass McDonald's in terms of those "served." Obviously, it would seem eating would outdo even the iPhone, you never know, but still ... at any rate, on Monday, Apple announced ...
The App Store Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 7/11/2009 — On Friday, July 10th, the iTunes App Store turned one year old. Yes, it was only shortly over a year ago that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, an SDK, and the App Store to hold the (currently more than 50,000 apps). Naturally, when you go to iTunes, you get a promotional announcement: Light a ...
Apple changes to App Store review policy worry developers
arstechnica.com 5/8/2009 —
Apple sent shock waves through the iPhone developer community Thursday when it announced that it would start exclusively reviewing applications using the iPhone 3.0 firmware. This update, which has not been released to the public, was ...
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
apple.com 7/14/2009 — s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers CUPERTINO, California July 14, 2009 Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its ...
The App Store Closes In On 100,000 Apps
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 27 days ago — According to App Shopper, a third-party site that tracks applications in Apple's App Store, while many keep using the last amount quoted by Apple (85,000) as the number of apps in that repository, the App Store is nearing 100,000 apps, and should hit that number soon. In fact, App Shopper, ...
10,000 Apps, 300 Million Downloads from App Store: Apple
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 12/6/2008 — I wrote earlier that the App Store had reached 10,000 apps (depending on your level of measurement). It's now been confirmed by Apple, with a full-page ad than ran in Friday's edition of both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . The ad ...
Iphone knocks Razr off the top —
Home - THE INQUIRER 11/24/2008
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Monday 24 November 2008. 10:15:00 Motorola no longer the leading handset maker FRUIT-THEMED toymaker Apple will be opening the bubbly over the news that its 3G Jesus phone is the leading handset purchased by adult ...
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