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$2.5 Billion App Store Market Called Into Question?

By , Monday, Aug 31, 2009
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Last week we linked to an AdMob estimate that the iPhone and iPod touch App Store could represent a $2.5 billion a year economy, which based the estimate off usage

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Apple Telling Developers to Remove “Free Memory” Function from App Store iPhone Apps?

By , Friday, Aug 28, 2009
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According to developers Bjango, Apple is now telling developers to remove the “Free Memory” function — the ability to clear data from RAM without force quitting or rebooting —

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Microsoft Releases Bing SDK for iPhone

By , Friday, Aug 28, 2009
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Bing Community Blog has announced that Microsoft is “sprinkling some Cocoa” on their Bing. (No laughing!):

The Bing iPhone and Mac SDK is available for download on CodePlex, open

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iPhone App Review Astroturfing Gets Uglier

By , Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009
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MobileCrunch has a huge post up detailing the latest, and potentially one of the most brazen cases of fake iPhone reviews (astroturfing) to date.

To sum up, MobileCrunch claims PR

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Apple: 8500 Apps to Review a Week by 40 Odd Reviews

By , Friday, Aug 21, 2009
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As part of their response to the FCC’s investigation into the rejection of Google Voice, Apple stated that they 1) receive about 8500 apps and app updates to review

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Apple VP Phil Schiller Emails Steven Frank, No E-Book Rejection Policy, Working to Improve App Store

By , Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009
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Mac developer and Panic luminary Steven Frank’s public break-up with the iPhone over Apple’s capricious App Store policy was one of the few so grounded in rationale and reason we

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Daring Fireball: Apple VP Phil Schiller Responds to Ninjawords iPhone App Store Incident

By , Thursday, Aug 6, 2009
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Daring Fireball received a response from Apple Senior VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller, regarding the App Store incident involving the Ninjawords iPhone dictionary app.

Gruber quotes “the salient parts”

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App Store Cracks Down on Copyright, Ejects 900+ Aggregator Apps, Rejects E-Books

By , Thursday, Aug 6, 2009
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A couple new and interesting cases of App Store rejection, including the stripping Perfect Acumen and owner, Khalid Shaik, of their developer account, and ejecting their 900+ application already in

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App Store Insists Ninjawords iPhone Dictionary Remove “Objectionable” Content, Still Classifies it 17+

By , Wednesday, Aug 5, 2009
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Ninjawords [$1.99 - iTunes link], a delightfully crafted dictionary application, was rejected from the iTunes App Store no less than three times of “objectionable content” and still slapped with

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Apple Adds “App Store Review Status”, Escalation Email, to iPhone Dev Center

By , Sunday, Aug 2, 2009
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TUAW reports that Apple has taken a few more baby steps down the long, winding road towards App Store fix-land, adding a new App Store Review Status widget to let

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