Entries tagged with “app store”

For the first time in the history of the App Store, the same iPhone application holds the #1 spot in both the Top 25 Paid and Free apps lists. The app is iShoot by Ethan Nicholas. It's a fairly straightforward...... read more

I am really impressed with Tweetie, the multi-account Twitter client iPhone application. I find it bizarre that Loren Brichter (the developer) has created a true, multi-account Twitter client for the iPhone and there's still not a native application for the...... read more

As best as we can piece together, Apple changed its criteria for iPhone application acceptance sometime in early December. The first we heard of this change was from Sam Magdalein, creator of Pull My Finger. Earlier this month, he received...... read more

When I started writing for Inside iPhone, I promised that I'd talk about why iPhone web apps are still important. I decided to make good on that threat this week. One of the reasons that I think it's necessary to build websites that are iPhone-friendly is that lots of people will surf to your website before thinking of picking up your free app in the App Store. Do you want those people to have the somewhat-degraded user experience that comes from using a version of your website that's intended for a desktop or notebook computer?... read more

By now, almost everyone who has an iPhone and who have downloaded apps from the App Store, will most likely know what 3rd-party software means, and by natural extension, who the 3rd-party software developers are. And everyone also most likely...... read more

This post was revised on October 3, 2008. My latest post on Inside iPhone generated a lot of feedback. Several readers told me that I misinterpreted Apple's eight sentence announcement that it was dropping the Non-Disclosure Agreement that covers "released...... read more

Comment on the App Store are getting dumb and dumberer. Does having "FIRST!" posted under your app's entry in the store reflect well on you, your app, and on the Store in general?... read more

After about 2 months of the App Store, Games clearly dominate the market place. From the 10 Top Paid Apps, 8 are games and the 2 remaining are in the category "Entertainment" which is really just another word for "Games"....... read more

Apple allows read access to nearly the entire iPhone file system. This is a mixed blessing. Your Application can read that data -- but it shouldn't. Apple has been rejecting apps that stray outside their sandbox.

From the various rejection letters that I've seen, Apple cites non-specific "violations". These violations have nothing to do with the actual reason that application will not get into AppStore. It helps to see a cross section of these letters because you wouldn't necessarily pick up the point directly from the email.

I've been experimenting with AOL Radio, Last.fm, and voice recording apps to get a better sense of the iPhone's ability to be a general purpose audio device. In the course of regular use over the past three weeks, I'm really...... read more

A friend recently asked me if I had seen Hotels.com's iPhone App? I said no, because I had no need for a hotel room anytime in the next few weeks, and I'd probably book ahead when I did need one....... read more

Regular Inside iPhone readers already know that I'm one of the new authors here. What you probably don't know is that this is not the only new job I started in July. Last Monday I started working for a travel-related...... read more

I spent Thursday, July 10, installing the pre-released version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware on my first generation iPhone. I couldn't wait to start playing with the native iPhone apps I saw in the iTunes App Store. The journey was...... read more

The App Store is coming soon, presumably with the iPhone 2.0 OS update. By making the App Store the exclusive method for widespread distribution of software, Apple is controlling the means through which software is obtained on the iPhone. This...... read more