Publisher Cancels iPhone Book Because of NDA
Apparently Apple's imposed non-disclosure agreement on iPhone's software developer kit is affecting not only programmers but publishers as well. Pragmatic Programmers has announced canceling public...
Android vs. iPhone: Which Is The Better Bet for Developers?
If you’re a mobile application developer, where should you be playing your chips — on Apple’s side of the table or Google’s? That’s the question Neil McAllister tackles in his SDK Shoot-out over a...
Android Welcomes App Store's Rejects With Arms Wide Open
Disgusted with Apple's seemingly arbitrary and restrictive App Store policies, some developers have been thinking about dumping their iPhone projects in favor of Google's open mobile platform, Andr...
Don't drive iPhone developers away, Apple
One of the presenters at the recent C4 Mac developers conference made a point about Apple that is incredibly relevant to how the company is viewed, especially by the media and rabid Apple fans. To ...
First Android Phone Shows Off Polished Features
T-Mobile’s, first Google Android-enabled phone officially announced Tuesday. Now all we have to do is wait for them to go on sale October 22. Today’s announcement is the first time the public, via...
Apple Imposes NDA For App Store Rejections
If you're a developer and Apple rejects your iPhone application from its App Store, the company wants you to shut up and get over it. Apple's serious about it: The company has extended the iPhone ...
Apple Zaps Another Competing iPhone App
Angelo DiNardi’s MailWranger app for the iPhone has been denied entry to the App Store because it “duplicates the functionality” of the built-in Mail app. The reason is similar to why Podcaster was...
App Store is a Goldmine: Indie Developer Makes $250,000 in Two Months
The game is called Trism, and it's an example of why – despite Apple throwing its toys out of the pram every time it sees an iPhone App it doesn't like – developers will continue to make quality so...
iPhone Developers Go From Rags to Riches
The iPhone is a revolutionary handset. But it is also the key to a virtual gold mine -- the iTunes App Store, where independent developers can become multimillionaires in just a year. Since its la...
Gadget Lab's Suggestions for Apple's App Store Rules
« Scariest Toy Concept Ever: The Epidermits Thing | Main | Kodak Announces 7.6-in OLED Digital Frame, We Pay Attention » Gadget Lab's Suggestions for Apple's App Store Rules By Brian X. Chen Emai...
Snubbed by Apple, Podcaster Developer Turns to ‘Ad Hoc’ Distribution
Podcaster is the latest app to fall afoul of Apple’s seemingly random process of approving and denying iPhone applications. Podcaster, an application for subscribing to, streaming and downloading p...
Rejected: 'Pull My Finger' iPhone App
When Apple released a $1,000 iPhone application that did nothing -- and pulled it down shortly after -- some questioned whether the company exercised any quality standards for its App Store. A purp...
Android's Market Mimics iPhone's App Store
Android’s mobile OS platform developers revealed their own version of Apple’s App Store Thursday. Google-hosted Android Market is a near feature by feature copy of the iPhone’s App Store — a centra...
Tetris Clone Yanked From App Store
You've got one more day to download the iPhone Tetris clone Tris before it is removed from Apple's App Store. In a move that's hardly surprising, Apple was contacted by The Tetris Company over cop...
Apple Should Have Kept ‘I am Rich’ App
Fans of the iPhone may have heard that Apple removed several apps from its App Store after previously approving them. Though few are likely to argue with Apple removing malicious apps, it has gone ...
iPhone App Store Nets Apple $0. But That is Still Good News.
« Google Reiterates YouTube's Worthlessness | Main | Political Advertising Fire Sale » iPhone App Store Nets Apple $0. But That is Still Good News. By John C Abell EmailAugust 11, 2008 | 10:18:00...
Opinion: App Store Turns iPhone Users Into Guinea Pigs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open acknowledgment of an emergency iPhone-application "kill switch" was a welcome move toward transparency, but he gave away a pretty big tell: We iPhone users are the softw...
Apple Reviews NetShare; Permanent Ban Likely
Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application NetShare, which turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for your laptop, might not be returning to the App Store after all. Earlier in the week, Nullrive...
iPhone Coders Muzzled, Miffed by Apple’s NDA
iPhone Coders Muzzled, Miffed by Apple’s NDA By Scott Loganbill August 6, 2008 Categories: Mobile, Software & Tools BrokeniPhone by JefferySimpson via FlickrThe iPhone development community is gr...
IPhone Developers Devote Profane Web Site to Apple's NDA
Apple's tight-lipped culture is not only damaging its reputation with the public; it's also pissing off its direct supporters -- iPhone application developers. In accordance to Apple's non-disclos...
Pay $1,000 For an iPhone App; Prove You're a Jerk
Before you're rich enough to start throwing away your money to cancer foundations and third-world countries, consider buying a $1,000 iPhone application that does nothing. My old colleague Harry M...
Apple Mysteriously Yanks Software from iPhone App Store
Some iPhone application developers and users are befuddled by the mysterious removal of two programs from Apple's App Store over the weekend. Apple on Friday evening removed Nullriver's NetShare -...
IPhone Modem App Disappears -- Again
Minutes after Nullriver released an application allowing you to use your iPhone as a wireless 3G/EDGE modem for your computer, Apple took it down. Hours later, the software, called Netshare, was b...
FuckingNDA.com Launches
Justin Williams from Second Gear lets loose his frustration by launching FuckingNDA.com. The site conglomerates Twitter comments and (now) delicious feeds complaining about Apple's NDA.
IPhone Developer: Apple's Secrecy, Slowness Makes Things Difficult
The iPhone 3G/2.0 launch suffered many problems, from activation issues through availability to a buggy OS. And although there were few customer problems with the App Store -- where users can get s...
Apple Releases iPhone 2.0 Software Update, App Store Comes to Everyone
After manically clicking on the "Check for Updates" button in iTunes all morning, the 2.0 iPhone and iPod Touch firmware has finally show up. The update will bring all the functionality of the iPho...
App Store Launch: 552 Applications, 135 of Them Free
Phone developer house Pinch Media has analyzed the App Store numbers, listing the number of apps and what they will cost you. Of the 550-plus applications available right now, about 25 percent of t...
Apple Store Launched
Apple launched the newest version of their media player, iTunes 7.7. Included with the release is the iPhone App Store and version 2.0 of the iPhone/iPod operating system. Apple’s App Store provid...
iPhone App Store Exclusivity Is a Big Drawback
The new iPhone is open to third-party applications, hooray! However, those applications can apparently only be distributed through the new App Store, “the exclusive channel for iPhone and iPod touc...
