Posts Tagged ‘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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Developers: Want to port your iPhone app to Windows Mobile?
    If you’re a developer fed up with the iPhone App Store’s ridiculous process or keep getting rejected from the App Store, you may want to consider porting your app to Windows Mobile. Unlike the iPhone’s App Store, the Windows Mobile Marketplace does not require approval, you can just submit your app! Luke Thompson, a software developer with Gripwire.com...
    by Hans at August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
  • FCC Investigates Apple or AT&T’s Google Voice App Rejection
    Earlier this week Apple rejected the official Google voice app and removed all other previously approved Google Voice Apps from the App Store leaving many developers frustrated. Many developers invested a lot of time and effort in building their apps, and it was a slap in their faces to have their apps removed. It has not been confirmed whether Apple or AT&T were responsible...
    by Arasha at July 31st, 2009 at 11:07 pm
  • Official Google Voice App Blocked from App Store
    Yesterday Apple removed all Google-voice related iPhone apps from the App Store, and they also rejected the official Google Voice iPhone application. They are saying that the Google Voice apps “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Unfortunately due to Apple’s strict App Store policies, we will never see a Google Voice App on the App Store. A...
    by Hans at July 28th, 2009 at 01:07 pm