Apple App Store Takes Tiny Step Toward Transparency

November 11th, 2009 admin
Test A Blackberry 4 Free

Taking a small step toward openness, Apple rolls out a brand new way for iPhone developers to track the status of apps they’ve submitted to the App Store. While it may not sound like much, the move gives iPhone developers reason to celebrate. Many developers have complained about the difficulty communicating with Apple’s team of App Store reviewers. “It’s the coolest new feature they’ve added [for developers], in my opinion,” said Oliver Cameron, developer of the popular iPhone app Postman , who noticed the tracking system just a few days ago. In Apple’s Dev Center website, iPhone…


Originally posted on Wired

 
  Related Posts
App Store approvals and the tablet: why it matters
App Store approvals and the tablet: why it matters
Filed under: iPod Family , Odds and ends , Other Events , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK When iTunes Connect returned after its Christmas break , developers noticed that things had changed quite a bit on the App Store approval front. Applications that had formerly taken ten to fourteen days to work through review were now getting processed... 
Apple VP Defends iPhone’s App Store Approval Policy
Apple VP Defends iPhone’s App Store Approval Policy
Though indisputably successful, the iPhone’s App Store has been at the center of controversy for Apple this past year. In a rare move, the company’s vice president of marketing Phil Schiller spoke on the record to defend the App Store’s review policies. Apple has approved over 100,000 iPhone apps to date, but some questionable... 
The Apple Store Online is back, so what’s different?
The Apple Store Online is back, so what’s different?
Filed under: Hardware , Peripherals , Retail , iMac , Apple , Mac mini , MacBook Today, as is frequently the case, the Apple Store Online was taken down and modified to feature new goodies from our favorite fruit-flavored technology company. Now that the store is back up and ready for your ordering pleasure, what’s changed? Well, Apple introduced... 
Facebook app developer is through with the iPhone, blames App Store approval process
Facebook app developer is through with the iPhone, blames App Store approval process
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Developer , iPhone , App Store It would have been nice for the App Store’s public relations team if the biggest news in the past few days was the introduction of a more transparent progress report for applications under review, giving developers some of the feedback they need to see where their apps are... 
Developers on avoiding the 99 cent App Store price
Developers on avoiding the 99 cent App Store price
Filed under: Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store I’ve become a big fan of game developer Capy (formerly Capybara) in the past few months — their releases of Critter Crunch on iPhone [ iTunes link ] and Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes on the DS have won me over quickly. But I’m not sure I agree completely with their co-founder,... 
Apple Removes Porn Apps From App Store
Apple Removes Porn Apps From App Store
Apple has begun removing apps containing “overtly sexual content” from its App Store, according to developers. Multiple developers independently reported on Thursday that they received a letter from Apple stating that apps containing sexual content were no longer allowed due to complaints from customers: The App Store continues to... 
Apple Unresponsive to iPhone IM App ‘Trillian’
Apple Unresponsive to iPhone IM App ‘Trillian’
The makers of Trillian, a popular desktop instant-messaging client, say their iPhone app is stuck in limbo with Apple’s App Store reviewers. The developers submitted the Trillian app two months ago and have not received notice of approval or rejection. “We’ve been getting more and more questions from customers wondering where the... 
Microsoft retail store opening in AZ copies freely from Apple Stores
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Retail , Found Footage The day is Thursday, October 22nd. You’re in Scottsdale, Arizona, and you walk into a brand new store being opened by a multinational corporation that produces technology products, including popular operating systems for computers and mobile phones, music/media players, and ‘cloud’... 
Apple, censorship, and cogs in the wheel: the Dalai Lama is expunged from Chinese App Store
Apple, censorship, and cogs in the wheel: the Dalai Lama is expunged from Chinese App Store
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , App Store It’s being reported by PC World that Apple has begun censoring iPhone applications that contain any reference to the Dalai Lama in the Chinese App Store. At least five applications that contain references to the Dalai Lama have been banned: three of the apps – Dalai Quotes [$.99, iTunes ],... 
Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs To Step Up Geo-Location
Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs To Step Up Geo-Location
Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced on the company blog that they have acquired Mixer Labs , creators of GeoAPI . In a nutshell, GeoAPI provides developers with the ability to query the world through services which include a reverse geocoder; deep data about 16 million businesses and tens of thousands of points of interest; a writable layer... 
  Related Tweets from Twitter
TheTechGang (The Tech Gang)  : #Cloud #News Google App Store, Monetizing the Cloud Computing Wave | Partly Cloudy: This week, Google announce... http://bit.ly/c5aFWL #TCN..
Updated : 2010-03-13T23:20:15Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
GLAMDOLLtiffy (Tiffany Carlisle)  : @KENBRACEY really haven't been on my app store lately...So IDK of any..
Updated : 2010-03-13T23:20:09Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
TCMutante (Rodrigo Carrasco)  : Para los que tienen Iphone encontramos una aplicacin para encontrar tu auto de "descarga gratuita" en app store.... http://bit.ly/cUpq1G..
Updated : 2010-03-13T23:18:27Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
nkpart (Nick Partridge)  : RT @avibryant: "There are 100,000 applications on the App Store? There were also 100,000 pages on geocities." -- @azaaza at #sxsw..
Updated : 2010-03-13T23:15:54Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
savsolutions (SAV Solutions)  : Ya puedes descargar la versin 1.1 de Dulce Miel en iTunes Store descargala http://itunes.apple.com/co/app/dulce-miel/id349684586?mt=8..
Updated : 2010-03-13T23:15:11Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
  Related News from Digg
No comments yet.

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

TOP