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Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market [IPhone Apps]

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2008-07-23 10:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...apps . It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers. But many of the amazing apps and concepts we grew to love as unofficial apps aren't here, and only about 100 of the 900+ apps in the official store are really useful or desirablethe rest are dupes or just bad. There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet...
 
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: App Store Turns iPhone Users Into Guinea Pigs

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2008-08-11 21:00:09 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open acknowledgment of an emergency iPhone-application "kill switch" was a welcome move toward transparency, but he gave away a pretty big tell: We iPhone users are the software testers, or better yet, the guinea pigs I agree with Jobs that it's absolutely necessary to include an emergency kill switch for Apple to remotely...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gadget Lab's Suggestions for Apple's App Store Rules

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2008-09-17 18:17:17 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
Apple has been fickle with its iPhone App Store, to say the least. When the App Store first launched, Steve Jobs said the rules were "no porn" and "no malicious software." And given those loose standards, some applications that should never have seen the light of day made it to the App Store -- only to be subsequently removed. And now, Apple's...
 
 
 
 
 
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Will Google Android Steal iPhone's App Developers? Probably Not

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2008-09-24 13:14:42 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
Apple's recent rejections of some iPhone applications from its App Store raise a question: Will the company's restrictiveness spark a mass exodus of coders opting to develop for the supposedly open Google Android platform? Yes, no and maybe so After being rejected by Apple , coder Alex Sokirynsky will be one of the Android converts. The wannabe...
 
 
 
 
 
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IBM Researchers Using iPhone App Store as Test Bed

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2008-10-07 16:00:36 by Priya Ganapati in Gadget Lab
...Apple's 10 million iPhone users are now meaningful research subjects for IBM's Almaden Research Center Scientists studying the mobile web are seeding Apple's iPhone Applications Store with research projects in a bid to see how users in the real world take to them. The projects include an experimental text-input system and an application to...
 
 
 
 
 
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App Store Downloads Top 100 Million Worldwide

2008-09-09 20:35:33 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Apple today announced that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 100 million applications from its groundbreaking new App Store since its launch on July 11, 2008. More than 3,000 applications are currently available on the App Store, with over 90 percent priced at less than $10 and more than 600 offered for free. Applications...
 
 
 
 
 
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iPhone App Dev Aint Easy: Apple Rejects App for Duplicating Functionality

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2008-09-22 18:40:51 by James Falconer in IntoMobile
...app developer friends that have told me some interesting stories. Sometimes it is a tough struggle to get an App into the App Store and even if they succeed, it could be removed at any time. Tracking of sales and other vital statistics have been slowly getting better and better for developers Yet I know there is some real frustration for...
 
 
 
 
 
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BlackBerry App Center Coming With Storm OS 4.7

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2008-10-06 12:46:01 by James Falconer in IntoMobile
...Application Center In the image above, youll see a first look at RIMs response to the iPhone App Store. The App Center is slated to launch on the BlackBerry Storm 4.7 OS and will allow users to find, browse, install/upgrade 3rd party apps on their Berry. The Application Center will in essence be the main interface between the end user and the...
 
 
 
 
 
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AirRemote iPhone iPod Touch App

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2008-06-17 00:34:30 by HASH0x8b66aec in gadgettastic.com
...app for the iPhone & iPod Touch, which allows you to use the iPhone or iPod Touch to control almost everything in your house remotely. The AirRemote app needs another piece of hardware to function as a universal remote for your home. The Global Cache GC-100 Network Adapter, which costs you around $150 that should work with the AirRemote app...