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Shazam violates Developer Agreement, blames Jeff Rock

by Kelly Guimont (Oct 8th, 2011)

Jeff Rock happened to notice a push notification on his iPhone after installing Shazam. He checked it and it turned out to be an advertisement that had popped up. Since it didn't seem like expected behavior (push notification of an advert?), Jeff tweeted the Shazam folks to ask about it. Instead ...

iPhone users may soon be putting on their Google Goggles

by Steven Sande (Aug 24th, 2010)

If iPhone owners are sometimes susceptible to a wee bit of Android envy, one reason might be Google Goggles. If you're not familiar with the Android app, Google Goggles uses pictures from your mobile phone to search the Web. Point your phone's camera at a Russian restaurant menu, and it is ...

First look: free WunderMap weather app for iPad

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2010)

I've always been a bit of a sucker for the Weather Underground "Who Is Hot?" and Wunder Radio iPhone apps, as well as their website, so I was anxiously awaiting word of when they'd announce something for the iPad. I didn't have to wait long, as the company has announced that their free WunderMap has ...

Apple creating "explicit" category for App Store

by Steven Sande (Feb 24th, 2010)

After all of the kerfuffle earlier this week about Apple shutting down racy apps in the App Store, it appears that the company might be creating a special place for all of that suggestive and sexy content. We received a tip and a screenshot (seen above) from a developer who pointed out the new ...

Apple's New Year's resolution? Get apps through approval faster

by Steven Sande (Jan 9th, 2010)

One of the biggest gripes we heard from iPhone developers during 2009 was that it took forever for their apps to make it through the iTunes App Store approval process. Often apps would be disapproved for seemingly illogical reasons after a long wait in the approval queue, and TUAW heard from more ...

Schiller defends App Store approval process

by Mike Schramm (Nov 24th, 2009)

Well here we go. Up until now, we've heard a lot from developers about how much of a mess the App Store's approval process is, from people who've been rejected outright to people who've been forced to resubmit to people who've just given up completely. But we haven't heard much from Apple, and now ...

Stupid and unjustified App Store rejection letter of the day

by Steven Sande (Aug 28th, 2009)

TUAW has covered the fine iPhone apps from Tapbots more than once. ConvertBot is a beautifully-designed and functional app to do a myriad of unit conversion calculations, while WeightBot is my personal favorite app for keeping track of my incredible ballooning body. Tapbots posted an entry on ...

App Store Lessons: App Emergencies

by Erica Sadun (Aug 12th, 2009)

Bad things happen. Despite all your user testing, sometimes an iPhone app release hits the wild with unexpected results. I recently heard about one application upgrade that passed Apple review, but that crashed when run on handsets that had a previously installed version of the app. Another app ...

GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store

by TJ Luoma (Jul 27th, 2009)

Update: The official Google app is apparently not going to be released either. Earlier today, iPhone developer Sean Kovacs posted on his blog that his Google Voice client, GV Mobile, is getting pulled from the App Store due to "duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc)." ...

App Store Rejections: Apple rejects iKaraoke app, patent filed published for a karaoke player

by Michael Jones (Jul 2nd, 2009)

As if the waters surrounding the App Store approval process weren't murky enough, one developer has just hit an unprecedented wall. Apple rejected his app, iKaraoke, citing that it duplicated functionality of the iPod application. Of course, the "duplicate functionality" reason is nothing new, but ...

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