The big news this week is, of course, Apple’s banning of 5000 sexy apps. For a cross-section of the reaction, see: Henry Blodget’s Apple’s Absurd Double-Standard: Boobs, Skin, And Sex Apps Are Fine When Big Media Makes Them MG Siegler’s Apple, There’s Pornography On My iPhone. The App Is Called Safari. You Made It. John [...]
Archive | February, 2010
John Gruber On The App Store And Apple’s Brand
John Gruber’s Tits and Apps is required reading. Read it for thorough analysis on Apple’s decision drop 5,000 steamy apps while selectively keeping similar apps from known brands. John’s reasoning — “Apple sees the App Store as an aspect of its brand. Developers see the App Store as the entirety of the Cocoa Touch platform.” [...]
Hold and Copy in UIKit
This article also appears in Zetetic’s blog. Zetetic’s the company behind the transparent SQLite encryption OSS project SQLCipher and the iPhone password vault Strip. Recently, I wanted to implement an interface where a user holds down on a UIView class or subclass to reveal a copy menu. Basically, I didn’t want to have to present [...]
Updated Cocos2d With iPad Support
Ricardo Quesada is the lead developer of cocos2d. Have an OSS project that deserves some attention? We love user contributed articles! Email dan@mobileorchard.com cocos2d is a fast, free, easy to use, community supported 2d game engine for iPhone. Over 550 App Store games have been created with cocos2d, including the best selling StickWars. In addition [...]
Podcast Interview With Oceanhouse Media Brands And Their Impact On Volume and Price
Oceanhouse Media has an enviable track record: For almost the entire lifetime of the App Store they’ve consistently had a handful of apps in the top-100. Their apps beat the averages for both volume and unit price; in fact, they won’t build an app unless they can sell five to ten thousand units at $4 [...]
This Week in iPhone & iPad News – February 19/2010
Apple Bans Jailbreakers from the App Store Evidence Apple is banning high profile advocates of jail broken iPhone software. Inside Apple’s iPad: Multitasking Apple’s options/alternatives for multi-tasking on the iPad Apple Boots Sex Apps From iPhone App Store Apple Doubles 3G App Download Limit to 20MB Ahead of iPad Launch Previously 3G application downloads were [...]
Funding iPhone Ecosystem Plays
Scott Kveton, CEO/co-founder of Urban Airship, the company whose services take the sting out of push notification and in-app purchase — and sponsors of this site! — wrote to let me know that they’d closed a $1.1 million series-a funding round. This was rattling around in my brain along with a recent memory that Chomp, [...]
Contest Apps Now Approved?
A year ago I wrote a slot machine app that paid out free copies of applications. App publishers would give away copies of their apps via my app because it’d expose their apps to potential customers. The odds, if I recall correctly, were such that their app and a tagline would show up 2500 or [...]
iPhone Game Rebates
I’m fond of folks who take what is, for more people, a complaint and turn it into an opportunity: It’s common to complain that apps outside of the Top Charts are invisible. There’s substance to this complaint. What’s been interesting is seeing how people turn that into an opportunity. Turning this into an opportunity is [...]
This Week in iPhone News – February 12/2010
Apple To Prohibit Location-Based Ads? A notification from Apple has been received by some developers stating that they are only to use GPS data to provide “benefitial information.” This means that if your application uses the GPS primarily to enable mobile advertising, your application will be denied from the App Store. Apple Now Lets You [...]
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