Mar
8
2010
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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Category: Games, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, gaming, gdc, gdc 2010, ipad, iPhone, iPod touch, News
Mar
8
2010
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 [...]
Category: Games, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, gaming, iphone vs palm pre, iphone vs webos, News, pdk, The competition, webos
Mar
8
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 [...]
Category: Games, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Announcements, Apps, Development, gdc 2010
Mar
8
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, News, rejected apps, rss feed apps, state of the apps, template apps
Mar
6
2010
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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Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Development, erica sadun, News, roundup, sdk, TUAW
Mar
4
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, ipad, iPhone, iphone dev center, iphone dev center down, iphone sdk, iPod touch, News
Mar
4
2010
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”. [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Apps, Development, Discounts, ipad, iPhone, iPod touch, Rumors, state of the apps, upgrade pricing
Mar
4
2010
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.
YouTube link
TiPb Apps 3.4 — [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Apps, Development, ge wang, i am t-pain, ipad, iPhone, leanna lofte, macworld 2010, rene ritchie, Smule, tipb, TiPb Apps
Mar
4
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Apps, Development, Glamour, GQ, ipad, new yorker, News, Penguin, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, wired
Feb
23
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: beta 3, Development, ipad, iphone sdk 3.1.2, News, sdk
Feb
23
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Development, News, phil schiller, rejected apps, sex-based apps
Feb
21
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Apps, Development, iPhone, iPod touch, News, porn, rejected apps, sex-based apps
Feb
19
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store, App Store Apps, Apps, Development, News, rejected apps, sex-based apps, sexual content
Feb
19
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store, App Store Apps, Apps, Development, News, rejected apps, sex-based apps, sexual content
Feb
19
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store, App Store Apps, Apps, developer news, Development, ipad, iPhone, iPod touch, itunes connect, News
Feb
17
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Apps, Development, iPhone, iPod touch, mwc2010, News, opera, opera mini
Feb
10
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: adobe, App Store Apps, Development, flash, Hulu, ipad, iPhone, News, Rumors, Web Apps
Feb
10
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Development, News, opera, opera mini, opera mobile
Feb
6
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, epocrates, ipad, ipad in business, News, omni group
Feb
6
2010
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 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, gaming, iPhone, iPod touch, News, nintendo, nintendo ds, popularity, sony, Sony PSP