App-store-approval Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

C64 emulator un-approved again

by Mike Schramm (Sep 8th, 2009)

The first thing I thought when I saw that the C64 emulator we posted about the other day still had the BASIC interpreter hidden in it was, "Well that won't last." And unfortunately for fans of software emulation on the iPhone, I was right: the software got pulled from the App Store but quick. You ...

C64 emulator approved for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2009)

Well how about that. A Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone is nothing new -- we covered the fact that one had been developed a little while ago. Here's what is new (and a little surprising, to be honest): Apple approved it. In an environment where Apple seems intent on rejecting anything that might ...

Twitpocalypse aftermath and "incident" fixes on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jun 16th, 2009)

I didn't really take last week's Twitocalypse that seriously, but as you probably know by now, it turned out a little worse than expected -- we'd been told that Twitterrific (and, we assumed, most other Twitter apps) would be fine, and of course, as Craig Hockenberry explains on his blog, things ...

AMBER Alert appmaker not happy with submission process

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2009)

Jonathan Zdziarski, who has appeared on this pages before for other iPhone-related hijinx, has written an open letter to Apple about the AMBER Alert iPhone app he's written. Apparently he's worked in conjunction with government agencies to set up an iPhone app that can easily and quickly send ...