It’s no small feat by any means and Apple is rightfully flaunting it. Their App Store that empowers millions of iPhones, iPod touches and iPads with variety of apps has surpassed total downloads of 10 billion, making it the most successful App Store in the market today. Apple has also confirmed that they’ll announce […]
Apple reveals App Store guidelines
In a bid to maintain transparency, Apple today announced App Store review guidelines that tend to give a clear view to developers submitting apps to the App Store. The guidelines are void of legal jargons and good thing is that they are direct, clearly saying what can and cannot appear on App Store. Another […]
Netflix now available on iPhone and iPod touch
Netflix’s app that was available only on iPad is now available on other Apple iOS devices, namely the iPhone and iPod touch. The app goes for free in the App Store that will allow Netflix subscribers to watch TV shows and movies on-the-go. The Netflix App works over both Wi-Fi and 3G and categorizes […]
Apple confirms fraudulent activity at App Store, boots the concerned developer
Apple’s App Store was somewhat compromised this weekend where a developer managed to take 42 of the 50 top spots in the books category with fake content. The developer, Thuat Nguyen was ousted from the App Store developer program for fraudulent activities and Apple assures that no data is shared during the download. However, […]
Opera Mini for iPhone now available on App Store
Opera has a reason to celebrate as its first ever app made its way to Apple’s App Store. It took more than 20 days for Opera’s Mini browser for iPhone to be approved and can now be downloaded from the App Store for free. Opera claims Mini is six times faster than Safari, which […]
Opera Mini for iPhone submitted to App Store
iPhone app developers generally come out only after they’ve been approved but here’s Opera whose issuing a release for submitting their Opera Mini application to the App Store. The approval is obviously on the mercy of Apple (which for now looks slim) but it seems Opera is trying to gain some media hype so […]
Airtel to open their App Store tomorrow [Updated w/ site link]
UPDATE: So Airtel’s App Store variant will be known as App Central and it will be WAP-based only. Airtel users can point the phone’s browser to http://airtel.cellmania.com using Airtel Live’s WAP profile. The only good thing I found for now is the buying part. The site automatically detects your Airtel number and bills it […]
Apple App Store is a home to 100,000 apps
Keeping the debatable “How many fart or useless apps App Store has?” aside, the App Store boasts something commendable the other App Stores can’t. Apple has announced that the App Store now houses a whopping 100,000 apps, clearly showing its popularity amongst developers and consumers. If this small stat was not enough, Apple also […]
Apple App Store crosses 2 billion downloads, 85,000 apps to choose from
It took around nine months for Apple to pass the first billion mark but the second billion has come in a pretty quick time, 5 months to be precise. Today Apple’s App Store passed over 2 billion downloads with more than 85,000 apps on display. The surge in the downloads was possible because of […]
Google puts the blame on Apple for rejecting Google Voice (and Latitude) app
So it all started in July when FCC officially asked Apple, Google and AT&T the reasons for rejecting Google’s Google Voice app. And then came August where all the concerned parties submitted their justification to FCC with Apple claiming to neither accept or deny the app; AT&T claimed it had no role to play; […]