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With More Than Enough Apps, Apple Pushes for Quality

Apple’s recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps, combined with its lesser-known ban of cookie-cutter apps, signifies the company’s new focus on quality,rather than quantity, in its App Store.
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Freeverse To Release Flick Bowling Sequel

Freeverse has revealed that Flick Bowling 2 will be hitting the App Store soon, taking you on a journey through space and time instead of just hanging out in that same old bowling alley.Flick Bowling 2 will feature enhanced 3D graphics, true-to-life pin physics and gameplay that will be easy enough to learn but difficult [...]

Apple axes iPhone apps that simply reproduce

Following reports that Apple began rejecting App Store software with “minimum user functionality,” the iPhone maker has now set its sights on applications that employ a “cookie cutter” formula.
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Gameloft Unrolls N.O.V.A Free Edition Into the App Store

Today Gameloft launched a new edition of N.O.V.A on the App Store. If you have been holding off on this exciting FPS because of the expensive price tag, you can now try it out for free.It includes a tutorial level on the controls and plot, along with one short level.  You have access to 6 weapons and [...]

Apple to Offer Developers Tools for Monetizing iPhone apps

Apple’s push into the mobile advertising space could include tools to allow developers to simply integrate advertisements into App Store software for the iPhone and iPad in the same manner that they add other graphical or interface elements to their apps.
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WiFi Stumbling Apps Return, To The Jailbreak

WiFi stumbling apps are not giving up on the iPhone. After Apple’s unfortunate decision to no longer tolerate them in the App Store this week, the developers of Wififofum and yFy Network Finder have decided to release their apps on the jailbreak, following the same path Google Voice apps had chosen last year already.Starting today, [...]

Apple Pulls Wi-Fi Finders from App Store

Apple began removing apps capable of detecting Wi-Fi networks out of the App Store, with no explanation. They removed several Wi-Fi apps commonly referred to as stumblers, or apps that seek out available Wi-Fi networks near your location.
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Review: Dr. Seuess’s ABC

The great master of kid’s storybook rhymes has TWO books in the App Store’s Top 25 list, The Cat in the Hat and Dr. Seuss’s ABC. Do the iPhone versions live up to the original books, or perhaps even make them better?
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Footage: Everyday Looper Goes Viral Thanks To A BeatBoxing Talent

Despite the amount of them in the App Store, I’ve never really been sold on music creating apps, which is most probably because I am completely unable to ever create anything sensible.It seems like when put in the right hands however, they can help create some pretty impressive stuff. Using his iPhone and the Everyday Looper [...]

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy

People rarely talk about iPhone app piracy, but when they do, it’s sounds devastating: 90% piracy rates, $450 million in lost sales, etc. Here’s the truth: App Store piracy isn’t a big deal –and it never will be.
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Preview: OddBlob – Claymation Fun Coming Soon

OddBlob is a neat little arcade game with a groovy little clay dude, that is coming soon to an App Store near you. Oddblob loves to bounce, and it’s your goal to control his bouncing guiding him from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen. Oddblob can move in every direction [...]

Apple creating “explicit” category for App Store?

After all of the kerfuffle earlier this week about Apple shutting down racy apps in the App Store, it appears that the company might be creating a special place for all of that suggestive and sexy content.
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Review: Critical Wave – New Dual Stick Shooting Sensation?

Critical Wave is a brand new dual stick space shooter that has just hit the App Store. It’s similar to Meteor Blitz, but infused with a geometry wars theme. Is it worth $2.99? Read all about it.
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App Advice Daily: Appisode 81 – Happy Birthday Steve Jobs!

Steve Jobs celebrates his 55th birthday today!
As we reported yesterday, Apple has pulled over 5000 “overtly sexual” apps from the App Store, but now it looks like some of them could be making a comeback.
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Coming Up: Apple Is Adding An “Explicit” Category To The App Store (Update: It’s Gone!)

Apple’s policy shift concerning “titillating apps” last week generated quite a lot of discussions. The move has been harsh on developers who relied on the revenue from those apps, but let’s face it, the vast majority of App Store users have actually enthusiastically welcomed this change.
With younger and younger kids using the App Store along with [...]