So What Does Apple Do With Your Siri Data?
According to a new report on Apple’s siri privacy policy Apple can hold the data for up to two years, however the data is anonymized to ensure peoples privacy isn’t infringed. So what does happen when you hold down the button and talk to Siri? Apple generates a random number to represent the user and then […]
What Developers Need to Know About Google Glass Apps
It is official Google Glass is here! The new mobile device that everyone is buzzing about has just launched. 8,000 lucky individuals should be expecting special packages to be arriving at their doors any day now. So what should app developers expect? According to an article in Forbes, the initial terms and conditions prevent developers […]
AppGratis Dealt Another Knockout Punch by Apple
In a stunning display of kicking a man while he’s down, Apple decided today to kill off AppGratis’ ability to send push notifications to their 12 million users. Earlier this month Apple stunned the iPhone app developer community by deleting AppGratis, a popular iOS app discovery platform from the iTunes app store. Existing users of […]
Social App SnapChat Seeing Exponential Growth
150 million pictures a day. That’s how many photos are being uploaded everyday via SnapChat, the popular social app. The company is experiencing exponential growth, leaving other social mobile apps in the dust. According to an article by GigaOM, SnapChat was seeing 20 million photos uploaded everyday in October 2012. Instagram’s user activity is small […]
Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]
Mobile Web Access Speeds Increased By 30% Over Last Year Says Google
Mobile browsing got significantly faster over the year says a new report from Google. The report shows the average page load times on mobile are now comparable to desktop times. Mobile web pages are now loading about 30 percent faster than a year ago but with desktops Google only found some very minor speed-ups. The statistics are based on […]
Patent Troll Smackdown by RackSpace Protects App Developers
Cloud computing company RackSpace is no stranger to the extortion techniques used by patent trolls. After being sued over a rediculous patent infringement claim regarding a technology that enables rotating displays for mobile devices, RackSpace decided that enough was enough. The company turned down the $75,000 offer to settle the claim and instead chose the […]
Are In-App Purchases Misleading Children? The UK Government Thinks So
The freemium model has been adopted by mobile developers as the most effective route to riches on the app store. Freemium model apps enable customers to download an app for free and then buy upgrades or virtual goods through an in-app purchase. With the explosive adoption of mobile technology by consumers and surging popularity […]
FaceTime & iMessage Hit By Outages
Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime services saw their second outage this week today as both services were unavailable to some users. The System Status Page shows the second outage this week around 8am PDT for about an hour. As iPhone app developers we are glued to our iPhones and noticed the iMessages were not flowing properly this morning. The downtime marked a […]
IOS7 To Reveal Killer App Say Analysts
According to forecasts by Morgan Stanley’s analyst Katy Huberty Apple may introduce a true mobile wallet in IOS7 this summer. Dubbed a “killer app” by the analyst it is exepcted to preview preview at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple introduced Passbook in IOS6 which allows for gift vouchers and the like to […]