Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’

Apple Bans Suggestive Games

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

Wobble, probably one of the most erotic non-erotic apps on the app store and several other apps showing babes have been removed from iTunes after Apple changed its guidelines.

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App Store Passes 3bn Milestone

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

Barely four months after Apple announced to have passed 2 billion downloads on its App Store, Steve Jobs has the pride to announce that the service passed three billion downloads this month.

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Sony Works on iTunes Competitor

November 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Sony is working hard to pick up the competition with iTunes. It already owns a digital sales channel called PSN (or Playstation Network) and it plans to expend it under the name of Sony Online Services.

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Storm8 Games Pulled from App Store

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Following the lawsuit story yesterday, several Storm8 games have been pulled from the App Store. In the US, only World War, Kingdoms Live and Vampires Live remained online.

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Apple Moves into Stereotypes

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When we opened up iTunes this morning, we noticed a new promotional page aiming specifically at Girls called “App Store Essentials: Apps for Girls”. With this theme, Apple is clearly supporting a stereotype view on the market.

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App Store Passes 100K Apps & Games

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A new milestone has been reached by Apple as the company has now processed 100.000 apps in total (the word saturation buzzes inside my head), but there is something funny about this bit of news.

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GpsAssasin is Playing the App Store

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The developer, Side Hobby, behind gpsAssasins has figured out a new trick to score well on Apple's App Store. It is now rewarding consumers for leaving a 5-star review.

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OutboundCity Wants Tities from Apple

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

App Store developers OutboundCicy has put an open letter to Apple on it's website to complaint about the difference in nudity regulations for movies and mobile games on iTunes.

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iTunes Updates Charts

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, Apple released not only the new iPhone firmware, but also the new iTunes 9. We downloaded it right away and found out that there is a sweet surprise for iPhone publishers in it.