Apple Bans Jailbreakers from the App Store Evidence Apple is banning high profile advocates of jail broken iPhone software. Inside Apple’s iPad: Multitasking Apple’s options/alternatives for multi-tasking on the iPad Apple Boots Sex Apps From iPhone App Store Apple Doubles 3G App Download Limit to 20MB Ahead of iPad Launch Previously 3G application downloads were […]

Scott Kveton, CEO/co-founder of Urban Airship, the company whose services take the sting out of push notification and in-app purchase — and sponsors of this site! — wrote to let me know that they’d closed a $1.1 million series-a funding round. This was rattling around in my brain along with a recent memory that Chomp, […]

A year ago I wrote a slot machine app that paid out free copies of applications. App publishers would give away copies of their apps via my app because it’d expose their apps to potential customers. The odds, if I recall correctly, were such that their app and a tagline would show up 2500 or […]

Apple To Prohibit Location-Based Ads? A notification from Apple has been received by some developers stating that they are only to use GPS data to provide “benefitial information.” This means that if your application uses the GPS primarily to enable mobile advertising, your application will be denied from the App Store. Apple Now Lets You […]

I’ll be teaching our iPhone Development For Web Programmers class in Raleigh/Durham on March 24-25. The class is specifically designed to teach professional web programmers — developers who spend their days writing Java, .NET, Ruby, Python or PHP — how to build native apps for the iPhone. No prior Objective-C or Cocoa/Cocoa Touch experience required. […]

How should an iPad app differ from an iPhone app? VentureBeat piece on flirting/dating app maker Skout is adapting their app All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore Objective-C client library for TweetPhoto API While other Twitter image posting providers provide REST APIs, TweetPhoto has made a native Obj-C client library available. The […]

Bump, the Y Combinator funded company that got a lot of attention last year as the Billionth App, has released an API that lets devs use Bump’s bump-to-exchange scheme for swapping data phone-to-phone in their own apps. The API is free to use unless you are generating revenue as a direct result of a bump, […]