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Mar 8 2010

iPhone No Longer “Mobile”, Big Enough to be Own Gaming Platform Now

I already mentioned I’m on my way to GDC 2010 to cover the iPhone panel, and that iPhone gaming is getting big, so it’s interesting to see CNET reenforce just how big it’s getting:

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Mar 8 2010

iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in “Days”? — The Competition

It seems like Palm’s new webOS PDK (plug-in development kit) can be used to port over iPhone games in a matter of days — or even hours. Given how fast some iPhone games have turned [...]


Mar 8 2010

TiPb at Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2010

Tuesday and Wednesday TiPb is going to be at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) San Francisco 2010 to find out what’s new and notable in the world of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad gaming. Scuttlebutt [...]


Mar 8 2010

Apple Cracking Down on Mass Produced, Low Functionality Apps?

TechCrunch is reporting that companies who mass produce (or provide tools and templates for the mass production of) “cookie cutter” apps are hearing that they need to add differentiation and functionality or risk Apple not [...]


Mar 6 2010

TUAW’s Erica Sadun Shares SDK Sugar with iPhone Devs

iPhone developer extraordinaire Erica Sadun has been running a great series of “iPhone Dev Sugar” posts over on TUAW:

Should you be building universal apps for App Store?
Create shiny buttons easily
Simulating device events with iSimulate
Re-signing applications
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Mar 4 2010

UPDATED: developer.apple.com/iphone Down!

UPDATE: We’re getting really scattered reports, but it looks like the site has a new look/feel, a new $99 developer option for Mac (to match the $99 iPhone option), and…? Let us know if you [...]


Mar 4 2010

UPDATED: Upgrade Pricing Finally Coming to App Store?

UPDATE: Or not, as this dialog’s been around for a while as per 9to5Mac’s @llsethj. Sad now.

ORIGINAL: Developer Frasier Spears posted the above “curious” iTunes dialog to Twitter. It appeared when he hit “Update All”. [...]


Mar 4 2010

TiPb Apps 3.4 — Smule on iPhone and iPad

Live from Macworld 2010, Rene and Leanna talk with co-founder Dr. Ge Wang about Smule’s iPhone apps, including I Am T-Pain [$2.99 - iTunes link], and their plans for the iPad.

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Mar 4 2010

Wall Street Journal, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, New Yorker, Glamour, Penguin Apps Coming to iPad

Rupert Murdoch is bringing a Wall Street Journal app to the iPad the media mogul confirmed in his own paper:

“In fact, we’ve been allowed to work on one, and it’s under padlock and [...]


Feb 23 2010

UPDATED: iPhone SDK 3.2 for iPad Beta 3 Now Live!

Right on schedule — if they stick to 2 week schedules! — Apple has released iPhone SDK for iPad Beta 3. It’s available now via developer.apple.com and if the past is any indication, we should [...]


Feb 23 2010

NYT: Apple SVP, Phil Schiller on Why Sexy Apps are Out, Sports Illustrated, FHM and Playboy are Still In

Apple Senior VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller, was quoted by the New York Times in an article on the removal of 5000 sex-based app from the iTunes App Store:

“It came to the point [...]


Feb 21 2010

5000 Sex-based iPhone Apps Removed, Are These the New Rules?

Chillifresh, who first sent TiPb word of their Wobble iBoobs app being removed from the App Store due to what Apple termed its “sexual content” has followed up with another blog post, now claiming 5000 [...]


Feb 19 2010

Apple Comments on Removal of Sexual-content Apps

Following up on last night’s story about the removal of apps with sexual content from the iTunes App Store, TiPb asked Apple for comment and they responded:

“Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable [...]


Feb 19 2010

UPDATED: Apple Removes Sex-based Apps from the App Store

UPDATE: TiPb received a comment from Apple, see our latest post.

Developer Chillifresh sent us a link to their blog post where they claim Apple is removing “all non-PG apps” (read: sex-based apps) from the App [...]


Feb 19 2010

iTunes App Store Now Supported in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda

Apple’s iPhone Developer News feed has announced that the iTunes App Store is now supported in 13 additional countries:

You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App [...]


Feb 17 2010

Opera Mini for iPhone — SPE at Mobile World Congress 2010

We had the opportunity at Mobile World Congress to sit down with Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Jon S. von Tetzchner and talk Opera Mini browser for iPhone. Now the good news: We’ve seen [...]


Feb 10 2010

Adobe Says 7 Million iPhone OS Users Tried to Download Flash — Would Hulu App Fix That?

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, according to Adobe 7 million iPhone and iPod touch users attempted to download Flash in December, well over the 3 million who tried back in June. We wonder how [...]


Feb 10 2010

Opera to Show Off Opera Mini Proxy Browser at MWC

Opera, makers of mobile web browsers popular on those platforms that don’t yet have a WebKit browser (ouch, but yeah) has announced that they’re going to show off a version of their Opera Mini proxy [...]


Feb 6 2010

iPad in Business — Doctors Want it, Omni Group Gets it

While much of iPad presentation thus far has been focused on content consumption, Apple’s iWork demo and the ability to run iPhone productivity apps — and eventually iPad-specific apps — as well as 1024×768 web [...]


Feb 6 2010

Game Developers Like iPhone More than Nintendo DS, Sony PSP

According to Game Developers Research, their new study shows the iPhone platform is more popular with game developers than either the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP. Electronista sums up:

Demand for the iPhone has [...]