Some apps have been pulled from the App Store already, including Box Office, Aurora Feint, and most recently, NetShare.
I hope Apple doesn’t make a habit of removing apps suddenly, without notice or explanation. That would make the App Store a rather unreliable shopping place. You make a mental note of some products and shelves, and next time you're there everything’s changed. Not good for Apple if this keeps up, and certainly not good for the developers OR the customers. Complications are waiting to arise.
What’s worrying is that there is no easy pattern one can see here. All disappearances have been under very different Read More...
Last week I posted this rather angry, and certainly very reckless retort to a series of reports that said, essentially, that there were serious problems with the way Apple was running the App Store, and that the delays were leaving the developers frustrated.
I received some strong and detailed responses to the post. Those who disagreed with me all had a valid point-or more than one point in most cases, come to think of it--but I still think that none of them quite addressed the point that *I* was making.
Here’s a quick summary of the responses I received. Although I’m using Read More...
OK, so we know there are some problems with the App Store, but enough is enough all right? I mean, you’ve got to stop whining at some point. Look at this Macworld report, for example.
Frustrated with App Store, they say. What’s so frustrating, anyway? Maybe the fact that there have been 25 million downloads in less than two weeks? Maybe the fact that you are getting a cool, steady, revenue for your apps without having to worry about advertising or marketing? Maybe the fact that selling under the Apple brand lets you get on with developing your apps without worrying Read More...
In the mobile handset market, a couple of interesting developments have take place in the recently :
Android, although delayed, is very much on its way. We got to see some demos of Android, and, assuming all the members in the alliance find a way to work together, Android looks promising.
Nokia purchased Symbian and made it open source. Symbian is the most popular, and most accepted Operating System for mobile phones, so this again is big news. with Symbian becoming Open Source, developers are already eyeing another platform where they can deploy games and applications.
Very recently, Nokia also cut links with BlackBerry, Read More...
Thanks to RIM adapting the iTunes platform for its BlackBerry devices.
iTunes is today the leading music retailing platform in the country, and there’s a good reason for it. it is simply the most convenient, as well as cost-effective way of buying music, and it lets you choose from millions of songs. iTunes worked with the iPods so well that if you had one, you had to get the other. As long as Apple was making music players, however, the industry was more or less at peace.
With the iPhone however, the game changed drastically. To compete with the iPhone, Read More...
That’s what “analysts” say, in this report from Macnn.
Because it means, apparently, that lots of people want iPhones, so that increases Apple’s net worth, or sets its stocks soaring, or something like that. The sort of thing investors like.
Somehow, I think, if Apple HAD enough stock, and kept selling iPhones, that would have made an even better sign. Because in that case, you have people who want iPhones, you have the hype, and, in addition, when you actually sell the phone, you also have the money in your pocket.
And we also wouldn’t have had people getting angry at Apple, or give Read More...
App Name: Vecka Price: free
Download size 0.0 MB Current App Store rating: 3 stars
What it does
Shows you the current week number when you launch it.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sent out an email to all Microsoft employees announcing that Apple delivers a complete user experience and is thriving, and Microsoft now needs to copy Apple again. Ballmer claims:
In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences Read More...
Game store, rather. For their XBox platform. Third party developers will be able to create and deploy games through this online store, and will be able to keep most of the money generated by their games. 70%, to be exact. 30% will go to Microsoft, of course. To be accepted in this game store, the games need to pass a review.
Announcing this plan, Chris Satchell, CTO at Interactive Entertainment unit of Microsoft said:
We're creating an opportunity for aspiring developers to start their careers on the world stage. This will no doubt act as an incentive for game creators to continue Read More...
Apple checks and approves each app that makes is way to the app store. I know it doesn’t look like it going by some of the funny apps in the App Store, but it’s true.
The last we heard at the WWDC, 4000 App Store licenses had been issued, and presumably many more since then. The number of apps in the app store is still less than a thousand, and many developers have released multiple apps. So what are the other developers doing with their licenses? Not their fault really. There’s a big rush, and Apple is not able to put Read More...