News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
E-books are now more plentiful on the App Store than any other kind of app – including games – reports mobile advertising company Mobclix. The company identified 27,000 e-book apps, as opposed to 25,400 games. (Surprisingly, “novelty fart apps” didn’t even rank in the top five.) After Books and Games, the order of the next six categories is: Entertainment, Education, Utilities, Travel, Lifestyle and Sports. Last on the list is Weather with 552 apps. Paid apps outnumber free ones by 106,789 to 38,241, Mobclix says. The e-book number does get a bit artificially inflated, however. For one thin...
Well, it looks like this story is determined to stay in the news cycle—after last week’s disappearance of many adult-themed applications in the App Store, plenty of questions sprung up regarding Apple’s inconsistent approval policy. However, it appears that Apple may be preparing to loosen the restrictions on what kind of content it accepts as the App Store submission form now boasts an “Explicit” category.
Android and Apple’s iPhone OS were the fastest-growing smartphone platforms in 2009, with sales of the iPhone OS overtaking those of Windows Mobile, research company Gartner said Tuesday. Symbian and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry still lead the market, it said.
Gripers take note: Apple has updated and improved the MobileMe experience for iPhone and iPod touch users. If you go to the site via Safari, you’ll now find links to help set up Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. You will also be able to use Find My iPhone from another iPhone in case your handheld goes missing.
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
All models (both Wi-Fi and 3G) of the iPad tablet will be available in Australia in late April, Apple Australia announced today. This is just a few weeks after the Wi-Fi ...
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
