Why should we look into in-app purchases? Most of the top grossing apps in the iTunes App Store are now driving revenue with in-app purchases. Of the top 20 grossing game apps, 12 (60 percent) drive revenue with in-app purchases – nine (45 percent) of them are free apps with the only revenue source being… →
Nathan Becker from the Dow Jones Newswires reports that for the three-month period ended in October, Blackberry-maker RIM again had the biggest market share at 35.8%, according to comScore Inc. But that was down 3.5 percentage points from the prior three-month period. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone operating system remained at No. 2, gaining 0.8 point to… →
On July 22nd Chitika advertising network published a report revealing that Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, was already accounting for 50% of all iPhone web traffic only one month after being officially released. But what’s the status today?
A hacker who uses the handle “comex,” a member of the iPhone Dev Team, released the new jailbreak system through a website, jailbreakme.com. Users can visit the site from their iPhone browser to execute the jailbreaking process: no connection to a Mac or a PC is required, everything happens in a few minutes and he… →
If you’re left handed like me, forget being able to use an iPhone 4 without a case. Here are the myths and facts about the iPhone 4 reception issues. I’ve been thinking of how Apple could resolve the issue with a software update: they could determine how you’re holding the phone, perhaps thanks to the… →
Today I’ve been working on submitting an update to our popular Catholic Prayers database app: it’ll be our first Universal application to hit the App Store. Ever since we upgraded to the latest SDK we can only build for iOS 4, but we’ve set the iPhone OS Deployment Target to be 3.1.3. That way, our… →
If you upgraded your iPhone SDK to the final version supporting iOS 4, you have noticed that everything older then SDK 3.2 vanished. After some research, I found out you can build with 4.0 SDK and still run on devices with earlier versions of the firmware. If you want to be compatible with iPhone OS… →
I was so busy checking out the new iOS 4 features like folders and wallpapers, it took me a while to realize that the icons that used to be transparent now draw a black rounded-corners square behind the icon. This is most certainly because the new wallpapers implementation draws shadows and glows around the icons… →
Steve Jobs was expected to have little new to show about the new iPhone at WWDC 2010 keynote, since a near-final prototype had been “found in a bar” and all discoverable details were published by Gizmodo weeks before the event. Instead, nothing about the new Retina Display was leaked apart from the fact that the… →