Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
In fact, not only is Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit 2010 app not being removed, it’s being featured in the App Store. Both it and the Playboy app clearly violate the new rules of the more prudish App Store, yet they get to stay. Why? More: continued here
On its company job board, Apple says it is looking to hire “a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms.” More: continued here
1. No images of women in bikinis ( I personally found this rule highly hypocritical as the SI swimsuit app is a top app on iTunes.) 2. No images of men in bikinis 3. No skin 4. No silhouettes 5. No sexual connotations or innuendo. 6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing 7. No apps…
Flickr member flypigs has made this series of six cover mock-ups for the rumored forthcoming Steve Jobs autobiography. They’re all pretty cool, and if you look at the notes for each photo you’ll see that flypigs has put a little research into it. For Steve Jobs: The Man Who Makes It A Different Place. More:…
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If you have an iPhone, there is a good chance that you have downloaded a free app from the App Store that uses ad revenue to pay for its development. Some of those apps use the iPhone’s geographical location to tailor the ads for the end user, increasing the likelihood of the user clicking on…
Apple’s new iPad is being criticized for lacking the capacity to run multiple third party applications at once, but the company has a variety of options to pursue in addressing the issue. More: continued here
Although Apple’s just-released iTunes Connect guide for App Store developers (version 5.3) reminds them that over-the-air downloads for app purchases are still limited to 10MB, users are reporting that Apple may have quietly changed this policy. More: continued here
Apple has removed ‘overtly sexual’ content from its App Store after receiving customer complaints, according to a TechCrunch report. But just how far do those removals go? More: continued here
We know that Apple’s CEO is no fan of Flash, the Web animation software. But it sounds like Steve Jobs really unleashed on the Adobe system to try and convince the Wall Street Journal to ditch it for the iPad. More: continued here
Apple wanted publishers to discount bestsellers, so its $12.99-to-$14.99 range is merely a ceiling, according to people familiar with talks with publishers. More: continued here
Some of the things Jobs and Apple are being accused of are so over the top, Lex Luthor would have to take off his hat … and then use it to cover the dark stain spreading across the front of his pants. More: continued here
Three years since the launch of the iPhone, the iPhone is the de-facto smartphone. The only option for other handset makers now is to stop copying the form factor of the iPhone and differentiate themselves in other ways. More: continued here
Apple may have the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t have the Xbox. On Monday, Microsoft leveraged its most compelling entertainment asset, the Xbox 360, into the Windows Phone 7 Series. But what does this mean, practically speaking? More: continued here
Japanese authorities plan to summon Apple officials this week over complaints that its iTunes online store has billed customers for downloads they never made, officials said.In at least 95 cases in Japan involving five major credit card companies, iTunes customers said they had sometimes been charged thousands of dollars, they said. More: continued here
Does the Microsoft co-founder who pushed tablet computers back in 2001 think that the iPad is the perfect version? And what about the iPhone, which competes with Windows Mobile? More: continued here