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Since November Mac Developers have been complaining about Apples deadline for Sandboxing of Apps, originally Apple demanded that all developers sandbox their apps by March 1st, however now Apple has announced that they will extend the deadline to June 1st. For those that are unfamiliar, “sandboxing” is essentially confining an app’s system access to its specific [...]

Very similar to the 10 billion download countdown that Apple initiated just last year, Apple has now  announced another promotion celebrating the 25 billionth download from the App Store. As the huge milestone draws near, Apple is encouraging customers to enter to win a $10,000 App Store gift card for hitting the lucky number. Apple says: As [...]

Have you always wanted to write your own App? If you’d like to see if developing is something for you then Apple has posted a new walkthrough called “Start Developing iOS Apps Today.” The goal is that you will be able to create an app from scratch and have it ready to debut in the [...]

Dearest Siri, How can I begin to confess my love to you? You keep me organized. You remind me of appointments. You spend hours playing games with me. You do things for me that I don’t want to do for myself like finding the closest Asian-Mexican restaurant within walking distance. For some time now, you [...]

In a very un-Apple fashion the Cupertino company yesterday released the developer preview of the next version of its Desktop operating system, which will carry the name OS X Mountain Lion. As you will see from this top 10 new features Mountain Lion is heavily influenced by iOS. Here are the top 10 features from [...]

For those of you who have added books to Apple’s iBookstore you might have noticed that the is no way to let reviewers download a free copy of the book, well thanks to an update from Apple all that has now changed. Earlier today iTunes Connect sent out an e-mail to content publishers detailing some [...]

We recently reported that the App Store was more popular among developers than the Android Market, well now data suggests that the number of new Apps in the Apple App Store outnumbers those entering the Android Market by three to one. According to sources as of January, iOS held a total of more than 550,000 [...]

It is no secret that Apple shares are valuable, however just as you thought passing 10 percent of all of NASDAQ value was too good to be true, Apple shares are currently trading for more than $500 this means Apple has a current market value of more than $460 Billion. Fun Fact: A single Apple [...]

Well that didn’t take long, just days after Apple announced they would be  discontinuing the white plastic MacBook once and for all, the Cupertino based company has already replaced it with a MacBook Air designed for educational sales. The 13-inch model costs the same US$999 as the MacBook it replaces. This 13-inch MacBook Air, which will only be [...]