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Apple steps up their app store reviewing speed

Posted September 5, 2013 - 12:00 am

App review times for both new and updated apps have been a major pain point for developers targeting the iOS/OSX platforms. With review times reaching upwards of 20 days, the consequences of submitting an app with a major flaw are serious. Lately however, review times have been down right speedy.
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Waze adds gas price searches to crowd-sourced traffic app

Posted June 23, 2012 - 7:38 am

The Waze navigation app has used the wisdom of crowds to help you avoid traffic jams. With an update released on the App Store Wednesday, Waze is now looking to do the same thing when it’s time to find lower gas prices.
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Microsoft cracks down on racy apps in Windows phone store

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:50 am

Microsoft is working with developers to clean up apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace that contain racy or sexual content. The company said in a blog post it would contact developers whose apps icons and tiles contain racy imagery and that it would enforce its sexual content guidelines more stringently.
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Apple's App Store nears 25 billion downloads. That's a lot of downloads.

Posted February 20, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Apple's App Store is nearing its 25 billionth download in just 3 1/2 years.
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For Apple app developers, the most stressful time of the year

Posted December 19, 2011 - 2:30 pm

Apple's annual eight-day holiday shutdown of its App Store begins Thursday.
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Fake ID app maker urges Apple to reconsider ban

Posted December 15, 2011 - 11:47 am

The website that makes a "fake ID" app recently pulled from Apple's App Store asks the company to reconsider. Don't hold your breath, DriversEd.com; this is a matter of national security!
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Apple caves to political pressure, yanks fake ID app from online store

Posted December 13, 2011 - 11:54 am

Apple has removed an app from its online store after a Pennsylvania senator said it could be used by underage drinkers and terrorists to create fake IDs.
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Apple announces top apps of 2011 for iPhone, iPad

Posted December 8, 2011 - 4:11 pm

Apple announces its annual lists of top-selling and downloaded apps for the iPad and iPhone. Angry Birds was the big winner.
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Apple yanks iPhone tethering app from App Store

Posted November 29, 2011 - 1:50 pm

Apple has removed a tethering app for the iPhone that let users share the smartphone's cellular connection to the Internet with a Mac or Windows notebook.
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'Jew or not Jew': There's no longer an app for that in France

Posted September 15, 2011 - 1:21 pm

Apple yanks a controversial app from its App Store in France after complaints from activist groups.
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Apple targets enterprises with volume-purchase App Store plan

Posted August 19, 2011 - 10:22 am

Apple's new Volume Purchase Program targets large enterprises embracing the new mobile computing world.
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Apple-PayPal blame battle sticks Mac user with bill for 122 copies of Lion (when he only wanted one)

Posted July 28, 2011 - 10:18 am

A customer who downloaded a copy of OS X Lion get charged 122 times.
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Google Books bows to new Apple App Store rules

Posted July 26, 2011 - 9:38 am

Google's iOS Books app that was quietly removed from the Apple App Store over the weekend reappeared late Monday, fully compliant with the new App Store rules. The Google Books iOS app, introduced in December, is now in line with Apple's newly enforced rules that ban links bypassing Apple's own in-app purchase mechanism.
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Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app button

Posted July 25, 2011 - 4:38 pm

Amazon today bowed to Apple's newest App Store rules, and removed a link in its iPhone and iPad Kindle apps that took customers directly to its online store.
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Analyst: Apple customers downloading more apps (and paying more, too)

Posted July 11, 2011 - 11:01 am

Apple users have an increasing appetite for applications downloaded from the App Store -- and that includes paid apps.
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Breakfast links: Press-hyped HP TouchPad arrives, press says 'meh'

Posted June 30, 2011 - 8:00 am

Plus: App stores make a killing.
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Fantastic facts about Apple apps

Posted May 24, 2011 - 11:39 am

Early Tuesday morning, Apple's iTunes app store crossed a remarkable threshold: It approved its 500,000th app.
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Under pressure, Time Warner drops 11 channels from iPad TV app

Posted April 1, 2011 - 6:30 am

For the second time since launching two weeks ago on the App Store, Time Warner is scaling back the number of television channels it offers subscribers via an app for their Apple iPad tablets.
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Apple should explain why it approved 'gay cure' app in first place (but don't hold your breath)

Posted March 23, 2011 - 10:46 pm

I'm reasonably certain Steve Jobs didn't personally approve the "gay cure" app that was available for download from Apple's App Store until this week. But someone did. It'd be nice if Apple explained why.
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Angry Birds maker gets $42 million in venture funding

Posted March 10, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Finnish game company that brought the world Angry Birds is getting $42 million in venture financing.
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Steve Jobs email attempts to mollify developers, clarifies little

Posted February 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm

In response to developer concerns about how extensively Apple will enforce its new subscription policy, Steve Jobs sent a one-line email. Unfortunately, it doesn't really give any real information about what apps will be affected by the policy.
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It's official: No one likes Apple subscription plan

Posted February 17, 2011 - 11:16 pm

First developers and content companies hated it. Then the media got in its shots. Now the federal government and European regulators are casting a skeptical eye toward Apple's recently announced shakedown terms of business for content providers selling their product through Apple's App Store.
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Google outmaneuvers Apple in content subscription play

Posted February 16, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Just a day after Apple announced a highly criticized content subscription plan that takes 30% of revenue from publishers selling access to their content via Apple's online store, rival Google unveiled a competing subscription service for which the search giant will only take 10% of publisher revenues.
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Apple, News Corp. launch iPad-only newspaper, provide no news of additional App Store subscriptions [video]

Posted February 2, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Daily, the first iPad/tablet-only newspaper, launched alongside Apple's new subscription model for publications in the App Store. While The Daily promises a lot on its own, Apple was mum about making its new subscription system available to other publications.
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Apple rejects Sony e-reader app; Is Kindle next?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 5:44 pm

Apple's decision to reject Sony's e-reader application today sparked speculation that Apple would soon yank Amazon's popular Kindle software from the App Store.
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