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Apple’s Wrongheaded, Dangerous Censorship of Satirical Sweatshop for iPad
Apple’s removal of the satirical iOS game Sweatshop from its App Store continues a dangerous precedent of censorship.
Is Apple’s Dropbox-Related App Rejection Process Getting Ridiculous?
Apple rejecting apps that use online storage repository Dropbox? The nerve! How could they? Why would they? Another nefarious Cupertino ploy to harangue developers and take over the world? Not exactly, though the company is …
Google: Android Apps Have Tripled to Nearly Half a Million Since Last Year
Google has something to boast about at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year, it used the event to announce that its Android Market had accrued an impressive 150,000 apps. Today, the company announced that the …
Apple to Developers: App Store Placement Scams May Get You Expelled
Be honest, developers: Have you ever thought about finagling your Apple App Store rankings? Hiring someone who promises to get your app into the top 10 or 20 view spots for a “fee”?
The temptation’s (almost) understandable: …
Robots Get Their Own App Store
Starting soon, people will be able to download apps for their personal robots just like they download apps for their iPhone or iPad.
Closing on Half a Million: Google’s Android App Store Turns 400,000
Google’s Android Market just passed the 400,000 application mark last weekend, ringing in the New Year by closing the distance to Apple’s App Store, reports Netherlands-based app store stats tracker Distimo. Make that the “total …
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10 Awesome iPhone Apps You Can’t Get Anymore
Every once in a while, an app will show up in the iOS App Store that’s not meant to be there, obviously in violation of one rule or another but overlooked by Apple’s approval team. Here are 10 great iPhone apps that Apple banned …
Amazon, Walmart and Others Build Web Apps to Sidestep Apple Rules
And so it begins.
Let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the “iPhone” and with it, an “innovative new way to create applications” for the device.
The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to “create Web 2.0 …
Amazon, B&N, Google, WSJ Pull ‘Purchasing’ from iOS Apps
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, …
Apple Opens New App Store for Businesses
One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices.
The Volume Purchase store was announced a couple of weeks ago, but finally went live yesterday …
