iOS 7 Beta Update #4 Released After Delay
Nearly two weeks after suffering a severe security setback to their Developer Portal, Apple has released a new update of iOS 7 to the developer community. The hacking incident forced the company to take the the iOS Developer Center offline for 8 days while software engineers and the security team worked furiously to patch vulnerabilities […]
How to Turn Your App Into A Profitable Business
To maintain a sustainable business, app developers have to make money with their apps. Marketing and monetization strategies differ, depending on your user.
Apple Developer Center Yanked Offline After Suffering Security Breach
Apple’s Developer Center is still unavailable after being breached by a hacker last Thursday. Apparently the intruder attempted to secure personal information about registered developers from the developer website. Sensitive personal information such as developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses may have been accessed. The portal has been offline for six days now while […]
Study Shows that a World Without Apps Could Cause Society to Breakdown
In celebration of the iTunes App Store’s 5th birthday, e-commerce giant E-bay asked 200 iPhone owners to drastically change their lifestyle. The challenge for the 200 participants was to survive 4 whole days without using any mobile apps. The results of living an app free life were interesting to say the least. The biggest take-away […]
Russian Hacker Finds Way To Avoid In-App Charges
A Russian hacker has found a way to download in-app purchases without paying for them. The hack works for all versions of iOS 3 and higher.
Apple’s iTunes App Store Flying High on 5th Birthday
As an iPhone app developer I consider this to be a truly momentous day. Steve Jobs may have passed but his crowning achievements live on, transforming billions of lives and the world as we know it. The founding of the iTunes App Store greatly contributed to Apple’s impressive rise from obscurity into a global tech […]
iOS 7 Beta Undergoes 3rd Major Upgrade
Apple continues to roll out an impressive laundry list of features and upgrades for their flagship operating system iOS 7. Only two weeks after their last major update, Apple released the 3rd iteration of iOS 7 beta and chances are that the tech giant will release another update two weeks out from now. According to […]
iTunes App Store Competition More Fierce Than Ever
Just about any iPhone app developer you speak with will complain that getting their app noticed and driving downloads is as hard as developing an app in the first-place. There are immense flaws in the iTunes App Store model and they have been obvious since the app marketplace’s inception. Most of the most beautiful and […]
Apple Releases iOS 7 Beta for iPad App Developers
Apple has released the Beta version of iOS 7 allowing iPad app developers to start cranking out new apps for the device. iOS 7 was released a few weeks ago at WWDC 2013 in San Francisco and for a short time was only available for iPhone app developers. According to TechCrunch, “..the new beta is […]
Instagram Adds Social Video Capture Freatures to App
Facebook announced today that their $1 billion baby, Instagram has integrated nifty video features into the app. Instagram’s addition of social video features places the app and Facebook head to head in competition for eyeballs with Twitter’s Vine mobile app. Vine allows users to upload and share 6 second video clips, whereas Instagram will enable […]