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Making money in a crowded App Store: it's dog eat dog and Spy vs Spy

by Richard Gaywood (Sep 4th, 2012)

On the 25th of July, a shiny iOS remake of the 8-bit classic Spy vs Spy launched on the App Store for $1.99. The next day, the price dropped to $0.99 in a launch sale. On the 30th, it went up briefly, then developer Robots and Pencils announced ...

New Digg iPhone app available

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2012)

Just when you thought that Digg had faded into the obscure fog of irrelevancy, the company comes out with a new Digg app for iPhone (free). The app is getting a lot of buzz, perhaps just because many users have moved on to other ways of getting ...

Taxi Magic 3.0 adds new magic, more taxi fleets

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

Travelers and city-dwellers in the U.S. have been using Taxi Magic (free) for a few years now, and a new update to the app released today makes it even easier to book a taxi with a few taps. Taxi Magic 3.0 has a redesigned user interface for ...

Path gets new sharing features, better camera

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

Users of social networking app Path have a few new features this morning that should make them very happy. The free app, which allows sharing only to a few (150) good friends, is quite popular as it serves as a gateway to posting on other services ...

Fellow app developers speculate on why Sparrow 'sold out'

by Chris Rawson (Jul 24th, 2012)

The popular email app Sparrow was recently acquired by Google for a tidy sum, and pretty much immediately mothballed. This has resulted in a firestorm of criticism leveled at both Google and the Sparrow developers. "Why can't independent developers ...

Local notification spam: Devs, please don't do that

by Erica Sadun (Jul 16th, 2012)

Want to know a quick road to a bad app review from your users? Local notification spam. Frankly, we're sick of it. You spam us, we'll toss your app off our phones like *snap* that. Just because local notifications don't require opt-in doesn't ...

Twitter for iPhone 4.3 available for your tweeting pleasure

by Steven Sande (Jul 10th, 2012)

There's a new update to the official Twitter app for iPhone. Twitter for iPhone 4.3 (free) arrived today with a number of new features and bug fixes that should make life with the app a lot easier. According to the update notes, Twitter for ...

App Store delivering corrupted binaries for some apps (Updated)

by Michael Rose (Jul 5th, 2012)

Update: Per AllThingsD and TechCrunch, Apple has now commented on the binary corruption problem; it says the server issue that was responsible for problematic DRM code has been rectified. There are better ways to spend the 4th of July holiday ...

Layout app adds framing style to images on the iPad

by Steven Sande (Jul 5th, 2012)

JuicyBits Software is well known for some innovative iOS apps, including Halftone and 3D Camera. Now the company has released a new app that's perfect for arranging, annotating, framing, and sharing any image you can view on your iPad. Layout ...

Apple to add food and drink category to App Store

by Steven Sande (Jul 3rd, 2012)

Yesterday, Apple sent out a letter to developers detailing a new Food and Drink category that is coming to the App Store in a few weeks. The category is to include "apps that help users cook and bake, mix drinks, manage recipes, find new ...

Cupcakeroo: kidlet and tween fun

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2012)

There are roughly a badjillion cupcake apps available on the iOS App Store. They're all vaguely the same, providing a fun interactive way to decorate bake goods. Today, I got a chance to play with Cupcakeroo, a new contender in the crowded field ...

With Bento update, lack of App Store upgrades is front-and-center again

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 20th, 2012)

FileMaker released a meaty update to the iPad version of Bento on June 19, pushing it from version 1.15 to 4.0. But with this comes a move previously seen with Tweetie 2 before it became the official Twitter app: the original Bento was pulled ...

Developing my first iPhone game: the inside story

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Editor's Note: From time to time, TUAW does cover commercial apps developed by our staffers, although it is relatively rare for individuals to write about their own projects (with some notable exceptions). In this case, Mike's experience of his ...

What, me worry? MAD Magazine to hit the iPad on April 1st

by Steven Sande (Mar 30th, 2012)

OMG. Let's hope that this isn't a clever April Fools joke, but MAD Magazine is coming to the iPad this Sunday, April 1, 2012. Just think -- Alfred E. Neuman's idiotic grin beaming at you from the Retina display of your new iPad! For several ...

Handcircus set to return to iOS with free game based on Okabu

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2012)

Simon Oliver's Handcircus studio was one of the biggest winners in the early days of the App Store. His game Rolando was originally published by Ngmoco back before the company went completely bonkers with social and free-to-play casual games. ...

Chinese authors suing Apple increase in number, target cash amount

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2012)

In January of 2012, TUAW reported on a group of nine Chinese authors who were banding together to sue Apple for allegedly hosting pirated copies of their literary works through apps in the App Store. At that time, the nine authors were asking for ...