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Facebook app developer is through with the iPhone, blames App Store approval process
It would have been nice for the App Store's public relations team if the biggest news in the past few days was the introduction of a more transparent progress report for applications under review, giving developers some of the feedback they need to ...
App Store quietly changes review policy
Since its inception in July, a more fair user-review process has been one of the most constant complaints/requests for the App Store. The old process, which was the same as the existing policy for podcasts, movies, TV shows and music, allowed ...
App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection
A new kind of App Store rejection is making the rounds in the iPhone World. It's not about violating the SDK. It's not about objectionable content. It's about Apple empowering its reviewers to reject software without providing any substantive reason ...
Apple relents: in-app purchase for free apps allows demo-to-paid
Big news coming down the pike today for App Store developers. Apple has finally relented on a sticking point in the developer agreement, allowing in-app purchases for free applications. Finally, developers can distribute a free trial version of their ...
Gallery: App Store Hijinx
Apple introduces the App Store Resource Center
As part of Apple's efforts to make the ins-and-outs of the App Store more clear to everyone, Apple has just Introduced the App Store Resource Center. Apple states this new site is "a single destination where you can find everything from how to ...
Promo codes for nothing, apps for free
The floodgate of new iPhone apps is open and enlarging all the time. Hundreds of new entries hit the App Store every week. This is a wonderful thing, but it does cause a good deal of consternation. If you are an iPhone owner, how can you keep up ...
Podcaster app distributed via Ad Hoc after Apple rejection
There was a lot of debate last week when Apple rejected the Podcaster app for inclusion in the App Store, saying that it "duplicated iTunes functionality." Rather than taking a stand against programming iPhone apps until Apple's policies shift, like ...
FCC Responses: Apple's take on the GV apps mess
The hits just keep on coming, folks: Apple has posted a full response to the FCC inquiries on its web site. It's a long document -- and oddly similar to a fake open letter written two weeks ago by Ian Hamilton -- but some of the highlights (and ...
Sneak Peek: Stair Dismount offers... broken bones, mostly
Remember Zen Bound? It's a gorgeous and fun-to-play little puzzle game. So when I heard that SecretExit, the makers of Zen Bound, were about to release a new app, I was excited to get a sneak preview.
Stair Dismount is a very different game ...
TUAW Review and giveaway: Blur Tripod and app for iPhone
Way back in September, we announced that Mobile Mechatronics was going to be selling a combination of a tiny tripod and an iPhone app called Blur. The idea behind this combo is that the tripod can hold your iPhone more steadily than your hand can, ...
Congressional caricatures on the App Store: The nays have it
Let's face it, America: if you're looking for "obscene, pornographic or defamatory" content, you can pretty much count on the US Congress to satisfy your jones. Put those representatives into cartoon bobble-head form, however, and stack them up with ...
Bodega: App Store of Mac OS X
With the success of mobile application stores (led by the iPhone's App Store and then copied by virtually every other mobile platform), it makes sense that the next step would be to try to extend that all-in-one browse/download/buy experience on ...
Two App Store updates: Trillian ships, Google Earth 2.0 arrives
There are two arrivals in the App Store of note. First, after a three month wait, the multiservice IM client Trillian is now available in the App Store [iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch.
We previously discussed the fact that Trillian was ...
Apple and the App Store: meme of the moment
It's been a couple of months since I first posted my thoughts on the iPhone App Store review process and called for greater objectivity, transparency, and consistency from Apple. Apple's review process has become the meme of the moment this week. ...
