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Filed under: Developer, iPhone, App Store

Apple adds queue time, contact info to iPhone developer pages

by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Aug 1st, 2009

Small steps: reports from several iPhone developers indicate that Apple has showcased two key features on the Dev Center website that may improve the mood and attitude of anxious app submitters.

Feature #1 is a queue status graphic (seen here), letting everyone know how long the approval wait should be -- like the line signs at Walt Disney World, only far geekier.

Feature #2 is the presence of a new 'all issues' escalation email address, so developers with urgent bug fixes that need to be prioritized can get their questions answered -- something that the Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry specifically asked for in his wrapup of the 1st-anniversary state of the store. This email channel has apparently been open for a week or two, but is now being publicized on the front page.

Several other tips & suggestions posts have also been updated in the past 24 hours, including notes on the keywording/tagging options and walkthroughs on changing your app name and assigning/adjusting the app's rating. If you're a registered developer, swing over to the Dev Center and take a look.

[via the delightful Nik Fletcher]

Tags: app store, approval, AppStore, dev center, DevCenter, developers, improvements, iphone, queue

Filed under: Retail

Photos from AppleStore Beijing

by Giles Turnbull (RSS feed) on Jul 21st, 2008

Queues outside the new AppleStore Beijing

Apple opened its first Chinese store last Friday, just in time for the opening of the Olympic Games on August 8th. Unlike their counterparts in London, the queuers didn't appear to need chairs for comfort, but umbrellas were useful for keeping the heat at bay.

According to our tipster in Beijing, the store sells all Apple products except iPhones, which have not yet been officially launched there yet.

Chris Evers also took some pictures of the opening, which you can see on a MobileMe gallery here.

UPDATE: That MobileMe photo gallery appears to be unavailable right now. We'll leave the link in place in the hope that it comes back up soon. Thanks to the commenters who alerted us to the breakage.

Thanks to Zach Honig for the tip and the main photo.

Tags: applestore, china, international, photos, queue

Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, iPhone

Behold, the iQueue

by Giles Turnbull (RSS feed) on Jul 18th, 2008

What do you do when you've got a pre-queue queue downstairs, then an actual queue proper upstairs? There's a lot of tired people involved, and twice as many tired legs. The answer, of course, is the iQueue. Dozens of plastic chairs brought in solely for the comfort of your customers' backsides.

This pic was snapped in the London Regents Street Apple Store on Thursday afternoon as a great many people wait for their chance to buy an iPhone. Photographer Chris Mac Morrison was less than impressed.

"I'll wait until waiting time is less than 10 mins before i hand over any cash," he told us. Good plan.

Thanks to Mac for the pic.

Tags: applestore, blimey, queue

Filed under: Software, Video, Internet Tools

TubeSock 2.0 - Flash video downloader gains conversion queue, bookmarklet update, much more

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 14th, 2007

All sorts of tools have appeared for making it easy to download and save Flash files from the likes of YouTube, Google Video and more. From Greasemonkey scripts to browser plugins, these tools all have their strengths and drawbacks, but for the serious Flash movie downloader, there is TubeSock. This powerful tool has received a serious version 2.0 upgrade since I last mentioned it, gaining a boatload of features such as a download/conversion queue, progress bar, a smarter bookmarklet, as well as support for DailyMotion and PorkoIt sites, batch files, FLVs (already-downloaded Flash files) and the Apple TV.

These aren't the only things on the new hotness list, however, so check out the changelog for the full rundown or snag a demo of this most excellent Flash downloading utility. The demo is limited to converting only the first 30 seconds of a file, while a license costs a mere $15.

Tags: download, flash, queue, tubesock, tubesock 2.0, Tubesock2.0, video, youtube

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