You just have to read it. App stores for mobile devices have been great for users. And for developers too, for most part. But once in a while there’s another story that sounds like developers are given the ‘talk to the hand’ treatment. Despite the blog post title, this case encompasses both Apple’s App Store as well as […]
Category Archives: iOS development
Apple Hates Brunettes
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And touch.
Since the Apple invitation for today’s media event reached the public eye, the last written bit has always struck me as odd. I’m not in favour of reading too much into these invitations, but they have carried hints (in previous events) about what subject is going to be approached on stage. «And touch.» it says. […]
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Tagged Apple, haptic, haptic feedback, iPad, ipad 3, Media Event, touch, touch-feedback
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Life at an Independent Game Dev Studio
Life at Simogo, an independent game developer’s ‘team of 2′ studio and creators of Bumpy Road. A behind the scenes look at the making of their latest game ‘Beat Sneak Bandit’ — the article at Touch Arcade.
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Tagged article, beat sneak bandit, bumpy road, dev, developes, game, interview, simogo
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Apple Legal vs Lodsys
Previously: Apple Legal sends letter to Lodsys claiming that Apple has licensed Lodsys patents on behalf of all iOS third-party developers. Lodsys answers stating that Apple is misunderstanding the license at hand, and starts filing lawsuits against seven small iOS developers. Today, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the matter. From Foss Patents: Apple’s proposed […]
Apple Legal’s letter to Lodsys
Macworld has posted the full text of Apple Legal’s letter to Lodsys regarding the latest patent shenanigans: I expect that the additional information set out below will be sufficient for you to withdraw your outstanding threats to the App Makers and cease and desist from any further threats to Apple’s customers and partners. First, Apple […]
The Incident Review + Episode 2 Teaser Video
I’ve been wanting to talk about “The Incident” for some time. And I find this is my chance as a teaser trailer for episode 2 of the game has just been posted (video at the other end of this review). So, what is “The Incident”? It is a very cool iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad game, brain-child of Matt Comi (from Big […]
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Tagged App Store, big bucket software, episode 2, game, game design, iOS, iphone, ipod touch, matt comi, neven mrgan, review, the incident, the incident episode 2, video
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Apple’s iOS gets more transparent
Apple has issued a statement today regarding the App Store Review Guidelines. Apple says it has been listening to developers feedback and: In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, […]
Apple Design Awards 2010
The Apple Design Awards 2010 list has been published. This year only iOS (formerly known as iPhone OS) apps were considered for the awards. And the winners are: * iPad Applications Financial Times iPad Edition Flight Control HD Pinball HD Star Walk — Interactive Astronomy Guide TabToolkit * iPhone Applications 20 Minute Meals — Jamie Oliver […]
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Tagged apple design awards, applications, apps, ars design award, ars technica, best of, design awards, iOS, iPad, iphone, mac os x, winners
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Apple WWDC’10 — Online Coverage
Apple’s WWDC’10 is about to begin with Steve Jobs’ keynote. There are several blogs/sites that are going to cover the event with on site live-blogging. Below there are links for a few of them: Engadget Gdgt MacRumors Ars Technica TWIT Live (comments about what’s happening on a live video feed) Some last minute rumor/especulation/inside info have shown up: Apple’s Magic Trackpad […]