Game Developer Research says that Apple is winning the race among handheld game developers: 19 percent write now for the iPhone and iPod touch. That’s more than double the amount of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP developers. Other interesting figures:
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Following a customer complaint to Phil Schiller, Molinker, maker of more than a thousand junk iPhone applications, has been banned from the App Store and had their applications pulled after it was discovered that they had been faking positive reviews. Apple discovered that they were trying to play the system, with many of their 1,011 apps having more than 50 five-star reviews, all written in Read the full story
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After many contributions to the jailbreak community including Installer, Icy, and Kate, RipDev is saying farewell to the iPhone. The surprise notification comes via a posting on their site.
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It’s been a great two years, but unfortunately, the time has come for Ripdev to close its doors. There are many reasons for this, most of which we probably will never disclose (unless we are forced to). The important thing is that due to circumstances we will likely be unable to support the titles we have created over the years further. They will be perfectly operatable on the firmware versions they were created for, and you will be able to download and use them — but they will no longer be Read the full story
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We’ve heard the woes of app developers waiting for payments, but at least there were payments. Newsweek claims in a sensational trend piece that the App Storegoldmine has dried out and some developers are barely getting by.
I’d seen the ”Look at the happy developers!” propaganda videos Apple produces, and I have to confess that I bought into them. Everyone just looks so happy and successful in Apple Land! But my feelings about iPhone app developers and Apple changed greatly over the past while: I went from being envious of the supposed overnight millionaires to realizing that perhaps some or even most may not be actually well off.
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Apple Inc. today announced that more than two billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store, which currently hosts more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
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Today Apple announced a new section to its iPhone Dev Center called the “App Store Resource Center.” This new section provides developers with important information on how to manage applications they’ve submitted to the App Store. In their words, it’s “a single destination designed to make it easier for you to find details on everything you need to know about distributing your app on the App Store — from how to prepare for app submission to managing your
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