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Petition for International Promo Codes Started

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

While Apple is celebrating the second year of the App Store, developer Fin Barrbrady has started a petition to force apple into supporting international usage of promo codes.

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AppStore Turns 2, Appsgiving Day

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today, Apple’s App Store turns 10. To celebrate the event, Apple is inviting all users to participate in Appsgiving Day which promotes the gifting options Apple introduced some time ago.

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iTunes Fraud Continues

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though Apple said to have solved the fraud issues that hit the App Store last week, a new fraudulous developer has been identified by readers of techblog Ars Technica.

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US Government Launches App Store

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The US Government has launched an app store to promote official government applications to consumers. Despite Obama’s preference to the Blackberry platform, it only holds iPhone and Web Apps.

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Apple Responds to iTunes Fraud

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, we wrote about developer Thuat Nguyen, who was using stolen iTunes credentials to generate huge amounts of sales on his apps. Today, Apple responded to the case.

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EU Prepares Apple Antitrust Case

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Dutch EU commissioner Neelie Kroes has announced that she will be conducting a research on platforms with closed app environments. As an example she explicitly mentioned Apple’s App Store.

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AppsFire Helps iTunes Affiliates Sell

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Through a new widget, AppsFire allows website owners with a Linkshare or Tradedoubler account monetize on app sales through Apple’s official affiliate plan.

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App Store Incompatible with GPL Licenses

July 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Following a test by the Free Software Foundation, it turns out that the GPLv2 license is incompatible with the Terms of Service of Apple. This makes it hard for developers to release their software under GPL.

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Apple Starts to Remove Widget Apps

June 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tonight is Apple Night, and we will probably not be blogging this time since we are still on a holiday break till the end of the week. Still we didn’t want to hold back the news that Apple has started to remove Widget apps, will they introduce their own widget plans tonight?

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MU: Milq Media, The Confession

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Milq Media took the stage to tell the experience they have had with their app Confession. Confession is a little confession box app on the iPhone which allows users to submit their confession anonymously.

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