Posts Tagged ‘Apple App Store’

Is This the Most Pathetic App Store Rejection Excuse?

Just when you think Apple can’t get any more asinine in its App Store rejection excuses they go and top themselves again! This time the unfortunate app is TweetPhoto, an app that allows Twitter users to upload and share photos. The reason for its rejection? Are you ready for this? It’s logo...
August 24th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

They Really Let This Into the App Store?

I was just Googling some iPhone apps, checking out what’s hot and what not, etc. Whilst looking for the next hot app I instead found a collection of apps that at best can be described as being awful and at worst are totally stupefying. Everyone has different tastes of course, but some of these...
August 22nd, 2009 | Apple, Odds & sods | Read More

American Bank Allows Cheque Deposits by iPhone

Mobile banking is something that’s been with us for a while now, but beyond checking our balances and maybe paying bills or transferring money it hasn’t advanced much. Well now an American bank is allowing iPhone users to deposit checks by taking a picture of the front and back of the cheque...
August 10th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

Microsoft Wants iPhones Devs

It looks like Microsoft is aiming its sites on Apple’s App Store with the release of a document detailing how to port an iPhone app to Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile platform. The aim being to attract developers to its forthcoming Microsoft Marketplace for Mobile app store. There are already...
August 4th, 2009 | Apple, Mac OS X, News, Windows Mobile | Read More

Google Voice iPhone App Rejected

The Google Voice app for the iPhone has been rejected by Apple. The reason given was that it duplicated existing features, which to be fair it basically does, but this then leaves the iPhone short of Google Voice in comparison to Android and Blackberry users who can enjoy Google goodness. The reasoning...
July 28th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

App Store Passes 1.5 Billion Downloads

To celebrate the first birthday of the app store Apple has the remarkable good fortune of being able to announce that so far 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded. The number is really quite staggering when you consider what a small percentage of the global mobile market Apple controls. The numbers speak...
July 14th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Almost Ready

One of the best incarnations of Facebook on a mobile device has been the iPhone app and the next version is set to be released shortly with the author saying that version 3.0 is 98% complete. There are a number of new features in the latest version, including live streaming in the news section of the...
July 3rd, 2009 | Apple, Mac OS X, News | Read More

App Store Boobies Pulled Because They’re Too Popular

The App Store Boobie saga continues unrestrained with the news that the ‘Hottest Girls’ app has indeed been pulled, but not for the reasons we initially thought. Over on Engadget they’re reporting that the real reason ‘Hottest Girls’ was pulled was because the servers were...
June 25th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

No More Boobies in App Store

No sooner had boobies made an appearance in the App Store than they’ve been removed! It seems that the thought of customers getting a fix of naked ladies from Apple was simply too much for the straight laced lads at Cupertino so they’ve gone and removed ‘Hottest Girls’. As we...
June 25th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More

First Adult App Appears in App Store

The iPhone came of age today with the news that the App Store has approved its first adult rated application. The app in question is called ‘Hottest Girls’ and there are no prizes for guessing why it’s been given an adult rating. Until the advent of the 3.0 update there was no ability...
June 25th, 2009 | Apple, News | Read More