Apple began airing two new iPhone ads last night during the Olympics (what hockey game?), one going after boredom by showing what you can do with your iPhone while you wait, and the other going after the hearts of parents (and grandparents) everywhere. Interestingly, neither featured the “app for that” or “app for almost everything” [...]
Live from Macworld 2010, Rene and Leanna talk to David Halpin about QuickOffice [$9.99 on sale - iTunes link] for the iPhone… and iPad! We also chat about their latest update which lets users access documents stored on popular cloud-services like Box.net, DropBox, Google Docs, and MobileMe.
Watch along after the break and let us know [...]
Chillifresh, who first sent TiPb word of their Wobble iBoobs app being removed from the App Store due to what Apple termed its “sexual content” has followed up with another blog post, now claiming 5000 apps have been removed and presenting what they say are the new App Store rules:
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Following up on last night’s story about the removal of apps with sexual content from the iTunes App Store, TiPb asked Apple for comment and they responded:
“Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable content we review them. If we find these apps contain inappropriate material we remove them and request the developer make [...]
The fine folks at HAVA have a top-of-the-line, factory sealed, $250 Hava Titanium HD WIFI box, along with a $15 iTunes gift card to purchase HAVA Player for iPhone/iPod touch from the App Store [iTunes link], and they want to give it to a lucky TiPb reader!
All you have to do to enter the give-away [...]
Live from Macworld 2010, Leanna and Rene of TiPb talk to Hilary Wall and Maren Faulkender of Appency about Farm Frenzy 2 [$2.99 - iTunes link] for the iPhone, and the future of games on the iPad.
Watch along after the break!
UPDATE 1: TiPb received a comment from Apple…
UPDATE 2: Reports now suggest Apple has removed 5000 sex-based apps and suggest new “rules” are in place…
Developer Chillifresh sent us a link to their blog post where they claim Apple is removing “all non-PG apps” (read: sex-based apps) from the App Store.
Here’s the email they received:
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Apple’s iPhone Developer News feed has announced that the iTunes App Store is now supported in 13 additional countries:
You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. Log in to [...]
Activision’s first person shooter hit, Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies is taking advantage of in-app purchasing with a new map – Verrückt (Zombie Asylum).
This new map will run you an additional $4.99, added to the app’s original price of $9.99. (Full disclosure: Activation was nice enough cover the cost for TiPb’s test-drive [...]
Yesterday it was announced that Google is buying reMail which “downloads all your email to your phone and lets you search it at light speed”, and now as part of that deal, founder Gabor Cselle has posted that they’re killing the reMail iPhone app, effective immediately [iTunes link dead].
So now we not only have Apple [...]
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