Articles Tagged ‘approval process’
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Cinemax MAX GO Universal Application Now Available In App Store
BY Joe White on Mon August 15th, 2011
Cinemax has released a universal app. But how did the application manage to get past Apple's App Store approval team?
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The Long Awaited Tactical RPG Is Almost Here
BY Mike Lata on Mon July 25th, 2011
Final Fantasy tactics has finally been submitted for Apple's approval. It should be released this, or next Thursday. The SRPG has been ported to a number of platforms and has a huge following among Square-Enix fans.
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Stalled Submissions Appear In App Store Following Approval Changes
BY Joe White on Mon September 20th, 2010
Not long ago, Apple relaxed its App Store approval rules, meaning previously banned apps could potentially regain entrance. Several Google Voice apps managed this, followed by a couple of Flash-based iDevice applications. Could this mark a change in the App Store itself? Read on, and decide for yourself!
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Apple's New App Store Review Guidelines Annotated & Explained
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu September 09th, 2010
As we recently announced, Apple unveiled its App Store review guidelines today. The guideline document can be found on Apple's website, but we thought we would try to give you more insight on these rules, and why they're here.
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Rumor: Flash-Enabled Mobile Browser SkyFire To Hit The App Store Shortly
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu August 26th, 2010
We've told you a while ago already that the developers of SkyFire, the Flash-enabled mobile browser mostly known on other smartphone platforms, had begun working on an iOS app shortly after the Opera Mini approval. Well, it's apparently around the corner.
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Apple Rejects Read It Later Update For Requiring An Account To Function?
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon August 23rd, 2010
The folks over at Read it later are telling us an outmost curious story today. Apparently, Apple rejected their latest update this weekend because it's requiring users to register for an account to function.
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Apple Rejects Electrosmog Measuring App - Keeps Us In The Dark
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sat March 06th, 2010
While latest studies seem to demonstrate the opposite, we all live with some sort of fear regarding radiations emitted by our dear iPhones. To address this concern, Tawkon, an Israeli startup came up with quite
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Apple Surveys iPhone Developers' Satisfaction
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon February 08th, 2010
Apple's App Store approval process, just like every cool place's bouncer, tends to be the source of some drama from time to time, so Apple has finally taken interest in the matter and sent out
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Phishing Apps Make Their Way To The Android Market, Oops
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue January 12th, 2010
Despite of the critics, Apple's approval process has some serious benefits, a big one being safety. First Tech Credit union is reporting that a couple phishing apps have made it to the Android Market this
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CNBC's 'Planet Of The Apps' Premieres On January 7th
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue December 29th, 2009
On January 7th, 2009 at 10:00 PM ET, CNBC will be taking a closer look at how the world of mobile apps has changed the way we live with their new one-hour program "Planet of
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Apple Easing Up On App Rejections?
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri December 11th, 2009
Either Apple's app reviewers are in the holiday spirit, or this is a sign of good things to come. According to AppleInsider, Apple approved an update to developer Vimov's iSimulate app even though it was
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Private API Stalking Robots Confirmed On The App Store : Troubles
BY Alexander Vaughn on Wed November 25th, 2009
We've told you recently about Apple rolling out an automatic solution to scan apps submitted to the Approval process. Well, Joe Hewitt, the former Facebook app developper confirmed it : I got a phone call from
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Apple Thinks That The Approval Process Makes Developers Happy
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon November 23rd, 2009
With all the fuss around the App Store approval process lately, Apple decided it was time to make some PR and sent Phil Schiller, its SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, to talk with the press
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Waveboard 2.0 Gets Rejected Over Joe Hewitt's Code
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu November 19th, 2009
We've told you a couple days ago about Waveboard, the first Google Wave iPhone client, getting updated. The second edition was principally going to bring us Push Notifications and a quick inbox feature. Unfortunately Dirk
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Are Robots Taking Over The Approval Process?
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon November 16th, 2009
Apparently Apple expanded its App Store Approval process with some static analysis tool. The idea is to have a program go through the submitted apps code to check if they aren't calling "private API's" or
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Rogue Amoeba Continues The App Store Withdrawal Protest
BY Alexander Vaughn on Fri November 13th, 2009
Wow, did Joe Hewitt provoke a trend ? We learned today that Rogue Amoeba, the long time Mac developer behind Airfoil and many others decided not to develop for the iPhone any longer. What happened?
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Update: Facebook's App Developer Quits Over The Approval Process
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu November 12th, 2009
We've told you yesterday about Joe Hewitt, the App Store's Facebook app developer, quitting the project. Well, Joe Hewitt explained his reasons today, apparently his: decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to
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The Ways Of The App Store Are Impenetrable: Mein Kampf? Yes, Congressional Caricatures? No
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue November 10th, 2009
The fuss around the App Store's approval process isn't going to calm down anytime soon. At first most of the refusals used to be around what the app would do, lately Apple started to filter mostly
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Apple Approves Vonage VoIP App, But You Won't Find It In The App Store
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed September 02nd, 2009
Vonage has just put out an extremely short and to the point press release stating that Apple has actually approved its iPhone app, although the app is not yet available in the App Store because
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Convertbot Update Rejected Over Time Icon, The Same Icon Used Since v1.0
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri August 28th, 2009
An update to Tapbots' handy iPhone and iPod touch conversion app, Convertbot, has been rejected because the icon they had been using for "Time" too closely resembles Apple's own built-in "Recent" icon. It's understandable that
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