WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: App Store

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

Google Follows Microsoft Kin, Ends Nexus One -Lessons Learned?

By | July 19, 2010 | Machine Logic, Mobile Nature

Another smartphone is added to the mobile device graveyard with the Google announcement, “Nexus One changes in availability,” a quick interpretation, the Nexus One will not be available from Google online but will be available through carrier partners, or maybe not. The real memorial is for the web store and Google’s ill fated attempt to match […]

Flash on iPhone? Lookout for Some Crazy Backdoor Juggling

By | October 5, 2009 | Mobile Nature

One of the most conspicuous absences from the iPhone, other than 3rd party VOIP, is the lack of a Flash player and the content it plays. That condition may or may not change in the near future. From day one of the iPhone launch, Adobe has been determined to pry-bar Flash onto the platform but […]

iPhone Apps Pass 2 Billion Downloads

By | September 28, 2009 | Mobile Nature

It is said that customers vote with their feet, if an election was held today, the iPhone App Store might be king of the world. In just under a year and a half, the iPhone and iPod Touch customers have downloaded more than 2,000,000,000 applications from the App Store. The pace of acceleration seems to […]

Managing iPhone Apps Just Got Easier…

By | September 10, 2009 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

There is a new update for iTunes, version 9, and for the iPhone iOS, version 3.1. There are a myriad of changes to how iTunes works with the iPhone and  iTouch, many are fine tunings and some are conceptually substantial. The iTunes store has a very new look, it is now much brighter and all items […]

First Marco Polo, Now the iPhone in China

By | August 8, 2009 | Mobile Nature

Apple iPhone will be arriving in China by the end of 2009. iPhone’s arrival may not bring the myriad benefits of noodles and gun powder, back to the West, but will most certainly increase iPhone sales and substantially expand the reach of the App Store. As the ink of the deal begins to dry, it […]