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Nips slip past Apple’s App Store censors

matrix — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:42:06 +0000

“iPhone fans with a penchant for naked breasts and an inability to surf the web can now play puzzles containing risqué images – in apparent violation of Apple’s ‘no naughty bits’ policy,” Bill Ray reports for The Register.

“But these ones are allowed ‘cos they’re art,” Ray reports. “The new applications consist of sliding puzzles showing nudes taken from classical paintings, which obviously don’t offend in the way that modern nipples do.”

“Americans get a selection of bathing beauties, while iPhone users in the UK will have to satisfy themselves with one application featuring nudes by Modigliani – not our own cup of tea, but it takes all sorts,” Ray reports.

“We look forward to finding out exactly where Cupertino draws the line as hordes of ‘artistic’ applications head for the breach,” Ray writes.

Full article here.

The Apple App Store Economy: Infographic from gigaom.com

matrix — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:44:03 +0000

A clever new infographic from gigaom.com shows how the App Store puts more than 100,000 apps at your fingertips — and generates millions of dollars for app developers worldwide.

Apple’s game changing iPhone and App Store

matrix — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:53:37 +0000

“‘There’s never been anything like this experience for mobile software,’ Freeverse’s Ian Lynch Smith says of the App Store boom. ‘This is the future of digital distribution for everything: software, games, entertainment, all kinds of content,’” Jenna Wortham reports for The New York Times.

“As the App Store evolves from a kitschy catalog of novelty applications into what analysts and aficionados describe as a platform that is rapidly transforming mobile computing and telephony, it is changing the goals and testing the patience of developers, bolstering sales of the Apple motherships the applications ride upon — the iPhone and iPod Touch — and causing Apple’s competitors to overhaul their product lines and business models,” Wortham reports. “It even threatens to open chinks in Apple’s own corporate armor.”

“Thanks in large part to the iPhone, introduced in 2007, and the App Store, which opened its doors last year,smartphones have become the Swiss Army knives of the digital age,” Wortham reports. “They provide a staggering arsenal of functions and tools at the swipe of a finger: e-mail and text messaging, video and photography, maps and turn-by-turn navigation, media and books, music and games, mobile shopping, and even wireless keys that remotely unlock cars.”

Wortham reports, “‘Apple changed the view of what you can do with that small phone in your back pocket,’ says Katy Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst. ‘Applications make the smartphone trend a revolutionary trend — one we haven’t seen in consumer technology for many years… The iPhone is changing our behavior. The game that Apple is playing is to become the Microsoft of the smartphone market.’”

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Apple Store Upper West Side

matrix — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:02:14 +0000

Apple opens its newest retail store on New York’s Upper West Side on Saturday, November 14 at 10:00 a.m. Set beneath a breathtaking all-glass arched roof, the street level of the Apple Store Upper West Side will offer more Macs, iPods and iPhones than any store in the world and feature the largest area ever created by Apple for personal training and technical support, including a 45-foot Genius Bar.

Apple Store Upper West Side Opens Saturday, November 14

matrix — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:19 +0000

Install more than 180 apps on the iPhone/iPod touch

matrix — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:13:23 +0000

The latest version of the iPhone OS allows you to have 11 pages of 16 icons, plus the four permanent icons at the bottom of the screen, for a total of 180 apps. You can actually have more than 180, though only 180 icons will be visible.

To get to the invisible apps, just do a search (press Home from the home screen), and type part of the non-visible app’s name. I don’t know how many of these invisible apps you can have, as I have not tried more than three so far.

Source: MacOSXHints

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Two Billion

matrix — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:43:09 +0000

Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now 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. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Submitted. We just need to wait to be available

matrix — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:00:45 +0000

Facebook has submitted their iPhone Application. As what Joe Hewitt said on his twitter:

Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review.

Hewitt also says he’ll post screen shots and more detais on this Facebook page for the iPhone app next week, and that he’s looking forward to getting started on v. 3.1 tomorrow.

We’ve been tracking 3.0 since details first became available in July. A list of some of the much needed improvements is here. And as a bonus, Hewitt said he’d be able to include video uploads to Facebook from iPhone 3Gs phones as well. And from our most recent post (yes, Hewitt has been teasing this out for weeks):

For more detailed information visit TechCrunch.