News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
E-books are now more plentiful on the App Store than any other kind of app – including games – reports mobile advertising company Mobclix. The company identified 27,000 e-book apps, as opposed to 25,400 games. (Surprisingly, “novelty fart apps” didn’t even rank in the top five.) After Books and Games, the order of the next six categories is: Entertainment, Education, Utilities, Travel, Lifestyle and Sports. Last on the list is Weather with 552 apps. Paid apps outnumber free ones by 106,789 to 38,241, Mobclix says. The e-book number does get a bit artificially inflated, however. For one thin...
Well, it looks like this story is determined to stay in the news cycle—after last week’s disappearance of many adult-themed applications in the App Store, plenty of questions sprung up regarding Apple’s inconsistent approval policy. However, it appears that Apple may be preparing to loosen the restrictions on what kind of content it accepts as the App Store submission form now boasts an “Explicit” category.
Android and Apple’s iPhone OS were the fastest-growing smartphone platforms in 2009, with sales of the iPhone OS overtaking those of Windows Mobile, research company Gartner said Tuesday. Symbian and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry still lead the market, it said.
Gripers take note: Apple has updated and improved the MobileMe experience for iPhone and iPod touch users. If you go to the site via Safari, you’ll now find links to help set up Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. You will also be able to use Find My iPhone from another iPhone in case your handheld goes missing.
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
Telstra has released The Official AFL App to coincide with the start of the 2010 football season, but while this is likely a welcome addition to any footy fan’s iPhone, t...
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
