Archive for the ‘App Store’

  • iPhone Devs: Android in app description = BANHAMMER
    When it comes to iPhone apps, Apple is infamous for rejecting them for silly reasons. Once a developer’s application gets rejected, it can take a very long time until it’s approved again. Surprisingly, this time Apple acted differently. The developer of the Flash of Genius iPhone application put “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!”...
    by Hans at February 4th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
  • Apple adds an App Store Resource Center for developers
    Today Apple announced the App Store Resource Center in an e-mail to iPhone Developers. The App Store Resource Center is a single destination where developers can find anything they want to know about submitting their app to the App Store. The App Store Resource Center contains three sections: Prepare for App Submission – Get started with iTunes Connect, including...
    by Hans at September 18th, 2009 at 04:09 pm
  • Search for top iPhone Apps using Bing
    If you want to visually search through top iPhone apps, or  recently released iPhone apps Microsoft has now added this in their Bing search engine. It’s currently in beta, but you can see it in action at Bing.com/visualsearch. It’s really fun to browse for iPhone apps using Bing! With Bing’s visual search you can narrow your search by Publishers, Category,...
    by Hans at September 14th, 2009 at 05:09 pm
  • iPhone App developers: Do not use glossy chat bubbles in your App Store apps!
    Here is another crazy App Store story. If you’re an iPhone App developer, do not use the same glossy buttons in the SMS app in any of your iPhone applications. Apparently this is trademarked by Apple, and they don’t want you to use it in any of your applications. Joe Stump found this out the hard way. Joe Stump, a former architect of Digg made an application...
    by Hans at September 1st, 2009 at 08:09 pm
  • What Facebook 3.0 is missing!
    Today Apple finally approved the Facebook 3.0 iPhone app in the App Store (as of this post it still says version 2.5, but it’s actually 3.0 if you download it). If you’re a Facebook user, you will like using this application. The main features of the Facebook 3.0 iPhone application include the ability to upload videos (iPhone 3GS users only), a built in web-browser,...
    by Hans at August 27th, 2009 at 04:08 pm
  • Facebook 3.0 iPhone App Released!
    The much anticipated Facebook 3.0 iPhone app has now been released and Facebook addicts can download it from the App Store! About a month ago, Joe Hewitt, the developer of the Facebook iPhone app made an update on Facebook saying that Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone was coming. On Sunday, August 16, Joe Hewitt was finally done with the development of the Facebook 3.0 iPhone...
    by Hans at August 27th, 2009 at 03:08 pm
  • Deposit Checks from iPhone with USAA Deposit@Mobile
    Whenever you get a check, you always need to go to your bank to deposit it. USAA mobile plans to change that with a new update to it’s free USAA mobile iPhone App. USAA Mobile has 7.2 million customers, and out of these 7.2 million customers one million use the USAA mobile iPhone app to manage their bank account. USAA plans  to update it’s iPhone app to allow...
    by Hans at August 10th, 2009 at 03:08 pm
  • iTunes Store Now Available in Mexico
    The iTunes store and the App Store are both officially available in Mexico now! Hola Mexicans, and welcome to the iTunes store. The iTunes store in Mexico features Mexican artists including Paulina Rubio, Vincente, Fernández, and Zoé  and a wide range of interneational artists including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and many more. Most songs are priced at 12 pesos...
    by Hans at August 4th, 2009 at 11:08 am
  • Apple Bans iPhone Developer
    Over the course of 9 months, Khalid Shaikh and his team of 26 employees have submitted over 900 applications to the App Store. That is a very huge amount of apps from one company. Unfortunately none of these 900 applications were of good quality. Shaikh and his dev team didn’t care about the quality of the apps, they just cared about making as much money as possible....
    by Hans at August 3rd, 2009 at 07:08 pm
  • AT&T Denies Having Rejected Google Voice Apps
    Last week Apple or AT&T rejected the official Google Voice app, and banned/removed other unofficial Google Voice apps in the App Store. The FCC decided to investigate, and they sent letters to Apple, AT&T, and Google to find out more info. You can see all the letters at TechCrunch. AT&T responded to this by issuing the following statement: “AT&T does...
    by Hans at August 3rd, 2009 at 03:08 pm