Filed under: Apple, Social Software, Facebook Facebook Connect is missing from Apple’s new social network, iTunes Ping, after it was apparently working on Wednesday night. There seem to be mixed messages coming from Apple, according to interviews that All Things D’s Kara Swisher conducted with Apple honcho Steve Jobs and VP Phil Schiller. Jobs said [...]
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If Apple really wanted to silence critics, they have a place to do so. I’ve now seen it with my own eyes. Inside Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA, there are a collection of rooms that house 17 giant anechoic chambers. Basically, they’re rooms where no waves (sound or electromagnetic) can reflect off of anything, so [...]
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Filed under: News, iPhoneWhen Apple first started rejecting iPhone apps for strange or controversial reasons, it was newsworthy, but after a while it became impractical to write about all of these rejections, because – my gosh! – you could fill an entire site with these! AppRejections.com has done just that. It’s a new site you [...]
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Apple’s app approval policies have been in the news quite often in recent times. While the developer community has always opposed Apple’s strict and inconsistent approval policies, the noise has especially become louder after Facebook’s leading iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt quit the team to make his views known against… Original Post: Apple’s Phil Schiller [...]
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Apparently Apple and Nintendo are not competitors as they appeal to different customers, well that’s the view of Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, who just happens to own an iPhone and MacBook, and any mention of Apple being a Nintendo competitor makes him uncomfortable according to the WSJ. Nintendo dominates the video game arena but there [...]
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I know, I know. I’m growing a bit tired of having to sift through e-mails from iPhone app developers who have seen their fruits of labor (big or small) rejected by Apple’s team of mobile software scrutinizers myself too. But I keep being amazed by the reasons Cupertino puts forward for not allowing apps into [...]
Posted in Tech Crunch Tags: Apps, Big Apple, Competitor, Copyright, Crunch, Crunchboard, Cupertino, Developers, Fruits Of Labor, Inconsistent Policies, Iphone, Logo, Mobile Software, Phil Schiller, Polaroid Photograph, Polaroid Photographs, Resemblance, Share Photos, Testament, Users Share Comments OffApple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how the Google Voice application hurts “the iPhone’s distinctive user experience.” All of those [...]
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As Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, you’d have to imagine that Phil Schiller is a pretty busy guy. He’s also been moonlighting as Apple’s keynote speaker during Steve Jobs’ medical leave of absence. But now it’s really starting to look as if Schiller has taken on another task: App Store savior. We’ve [...]
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Steven Frank, Mac Developer and co-founder of Panic had recently decided to boycott the iPhone due to Apple’s rejection of Google Voice related iPhone apps and other iPhone App Store policies. Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller has responded to Frank to tell him that they… Original Post: Apple Responds to [...]
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Earlier today we learned that Apple had begun to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Now comes even worse news: we’ve learned that Apple has blocked Google’s official Google Voice application itself from the App Store. In other …
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