Apple has posted a new iPad television commercial titled “Make a film with iPad”. The ad was first aired during the Oscars night. The advertisement is similar to the previously released ad titled “Make Music with iPad“. The ad begins with showing a classroom with “Make a film with iPad” written on a blackboard and then goes on to show students … Read More
Apple’s App Store about to hit 50 billion downloads
Apple’s App Store is about to hit yet another milestone as the company has updated its website with a countdown to 50 billion downloads. Apple will also be giving away US$ 10,000 App Store Gift Card to the user who downloads the 50 billionth app. The next 50 users who download apps from the App Store could win $500 App … Read More
Apple Airs Two New iPad TV Ads, ‘Alive’ and ‘Together’
Apple has launched new TV ad campaigns, focusing on the App Store and the range of apps offered for iOS devices. On Sunday, Apple aired two new TV ads for its iPad and iPad mini, called ‘Alive’ and ‘Together’, highlighting the over 300,000 apps available for the device. The ads, both of which had a similar theme, showed a number … Read More
Apple Fixes Corrupt App Store Downloads
Late Wednesday, during the time when many were celebrating the 4th of July, the App Store began delivering corrupted apps through the App Store which caused many users to suffer app crashes and springboard resets. Many apps, such as Instapaper began to crash even after a clean install. Instapaper creator, Marco Arment posted on his site that his own app … Read More
Apple Adds Free App of the Week and Editor’s Choice to Mac and iOS App Store
Apple now has over 300,000 apps in the iOS App Store and over 100,000 in the Mac App Store. It’s almost impossible to fathom just how successful both App Stores have been and how much more potential it has, to become even a bigger part of our everyday lives. Late last week, Apple introduced a new promotion in both the … Read More
Apple pulls Support for Android in Chomp App Discovery Service
Apple purchased San-Francisco start-up, Chomp, in February in order to utilize its App Search service for their own App Store. However, Chomp retained its app search service for Android users, until late last week. Apple likely decided to pull support for Android in order to minimize the usage of the website and focus it on iOS applications. Chomp also has … Read More
iOS Developers Experience Boost in Sales During Christmas
The holiday season sends iOS Developers scrambling each year in order to finish up their apps for submission before Apple stops accepting new submissions for the year. However, over the last three years, its become obvious that during this time, app developers experience much higher sales. This could be due to one of two things, either people are downloading more of … Read More
IMDB Latest App To Receive AirPlay Video Support
Support for AirPlay video streaming actually arrived in iOS 4.3, but apps that actually take advantage of the new technology have been in short supply. Now though, we can add the IMDB app to the (short) list.
Apple’s iOS Dominates Mobile Software Market Sales
With the mobile software market constantly growing, it’s becoming clear that Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are becoming the dominant forces in the market, with Nokia’s Ovi Store and RIM’s BlackBerry App World coming up the rear.
‘Jawbone Icon’ Bluetooth Headset The Best Things do come in Small Packages [Review]
Jawbone Icon (Hero) Rating: I used to laugh along with the comedians as they would make jokes at the men and women who would walk the streets, shops and even around their own homes with bluetooth headsets permanently poking out from their ear. I could never be like that, or so I thought… The first thing that impressed me with the … Read More
Apple’s App Store About To Serve 10 Billion Downloads
July 10th 2008 saw the launch of the iOS App Store and the sales numbers have been stellar ever since. The next milestone to arrive will be the 10 billionth download, and Apple will be celebrating by giving the lucky downloader a $10,000 App Store gift card. Let’s just think about that 10 billion number for a minute. It’s taken … Read More
Impact of Apps being featured by App Stores [Waze Case Study]
The Holy Grail of App marketing is still getting featured on Apple’s own App Store. All new products get a few days in the marketing sunshine that is the “New and Noteworthy” section of iTunes. And once that period is over your app’s sales can sink like a rather heavy stone in a deep dark pool, no matter how good … Read More
Apple Publishes App Store Review Guidelines
In another surprise move today Apple has published what it calls a “living document” which attempts to clarify the current App Store Approval guidelines. The document is available for all registered developers to read and is written in a chatty human friendly way. The majority of the guidelines are common sense, and most developers should really find that they probably knew … Read More
App Store Nears 250,000 Apps. Facebook Hits 100 Million
Facebook, which some would claim is probably the most used service on iPhone (via the Facebook app particularly), has passed 100 Million active users this weekend. Coincidentally that is close to the total number of iOS Devices that Apple has sold. Meanwhile Apple’s own iTunes App Store now boasts close to 250,000 Apps currently in its storefront, and has had … Read More
Apple’s New iPad Ad is ‘delicious’
Today Apple posted a new ad for the iPad which highlights a few apps from the App Store giving an overview of what the device is capable of. Check out the new ad:
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