Last month, we wondered how many people would care about the iPads restrictive DRM shackles, which makes Apple the only available supplier of software for the iPad through the fact that users can only download software onto the gadget from Apples App Store (unless someone figures out a way to jailbreak it — whichll probably
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Written by Brian X. Chen Apples App Store is now serving over 100,000 downloadable iPhone apps, the Cupertino, California company announced Wednesday. Overall, iPhone owners worldwide have downloaded over 2 billion apps to date, according to Apple. The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications availa... Original story at Wired . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related vide...
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In the wake of the Free Software Foundation calling the iPad iBad, the restrictive nature of the app store is starting to raise questions again with many users. After all, if this is to become a serious lifestyle device, and a potential laptop replacement, people are going to want a certain degree of freedom. The FSF
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Classic Media property makes the move onto Apple handsets. Classic Media has signed a deal with games publisher Mastertronic and developer Codemonkeys to bring Caspers Scare School to the iPhone and iPod Touch handsets. Launched to coincide with the Halloween period, Spooky Sports Day is available on digital download from Apples app store. iPhone has for a long
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Its interesting that, since Steve Jobs announced during his iPad keynote that iBooks would be available for download from the App Store, recently theres been some coverage of this as news including that the iBooks books will be using Apples FairPlay DRM. That iBooks wont be built in like iPod, Music, or Movies apps, and ...
Apples App Store is a big hit with Chinas iPhone owners, despite a series of issues that might hobble sales. The China App Store is set to earn $1 million in sales this year with a potential $6 million by 2010, according to a report. Popular apps include a Chinese-to-English translator and dating software. While the
Its been awhile since weve had to report on Apples App Store approval process, but theyve certainly made up for lost time with this doozy. Jason Snell, Macworld Editor, informs us via Twitter that his book about the iPhone has been rejected by Apple. Reason you say? Well, it contains the word iPhone. According to Snell,
Apples App Store Approval Process is often too arbitrary or subjective by half, but no matter how you feel about the latest app rejection to storm the newsfeeds, at least their rationale makes sense: QuackPhone, an app developed by Nick Bonatsakis of Atlantia Software, was rejected for containing minimal user functionality. In other words, the
Streaming and subscription music services are a dime a dozen on iPhone, and they seem to get past Apples app store approval hurdles with relative ease. But Spotify was one whose fate wasnt so clear cut, given its offline playlist function which as the name suggests downloads songs ahead of time for you to
The App Store and the iPhone really grew up last year, setting the stage for even bigger things to come this year. Expect social networking to become a key part of the iPhone experience, big new app players, and the start of a mobile commerce tidal wave. Apples App Store is fast becoming the social hub
Filed under: Surveys and Polls, Apple, iPhone, App Store Netsize unveiled the results of something called the Mobile Trend Survey 2010 at European mobile tech conference M-Days, and they say that 87% of industry professionals surveyed put Apples App Store front and center when asked about the most successful platform for mobile software. Android came in
