Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

AppCon: Are the Small Developers Godsend?

November 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

David Hamilton from Digital Goldfish discusses the pro’s and cons of being a small developer in a (by now) huge industry.

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Tactile+Plus Puts a D-Pad on Your iDevice, the Cheap Cheap Way

November 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

One of the most annoying things about on-screen keypads is to use them without looking at them. Especially on devices like the iPhone where you can’t feel the border of the screen. Some Japanese company found some sort of a solution to it.

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Apple to put NFC Chips in the iPhone 5!?

November 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to rumors, the iPhone 5 will be outfitted with NFC chips so it is able to communicate with other devices. NFC equipped phones are still rare items. Until now, that market has been dominated by Nokia.

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Apple Announced App Store & FaceTime for MacOSX

October 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iOS developers that know a thing or two about development for the OSX platform should pay attention as Apple has announced to be opening an App Store for Mac owners.

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Financials: Apple’s Q4

October 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we have been writing about the outcome of Apple’s earnings call earlier today, we didn’t mention any numbers yet. So here we go…

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App Store Breaches Through 300.000 Apps, How Many have Gone?

October 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

On September first, Steve Jobs announced the App Store passed a quarter million apps. Yesterday, the App Store broke through 300K apps. In other words, 50.000 new apps in about six weeks!

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Apple Trademarks ‘There’s an App for That’

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

There’s an app for that is probably one of the most used marketing slogans of the past few months. To avoid the competition claiming they have an app for ‘that’, Apple trademarked the expression.

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Adidas Pulled $10 Million in Advertising from iAd

October 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Adidas is rumored to have pulled a $10.000.000 costing ad campaign from Apple’s iAd network because Apple wants to have too much control over Adidas’ creativity.

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Dutch Public Transport App Receives Game Center Treatment

October 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Dutch public transport app ‘Bushalte’ has received a special make-over to support game center. According to the developers, this is the first non-game supporting it.

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Apple Updates App Store Layout and Rolls Back

October 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, Apple updated the layout of the App Store app on the iPhone. Today, Apple is showing the old layout again, which hints that something must have gone wrong.

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