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Apps to waste your weekend #02: The Holiday Edition

So, aside from the fact that I had planned to run this as a weekly column and then missed several weeks, I am going to hit the reset button and begin again with Apps To Waste Your Weekend #02. So, without anything further, I bring you The Holiday Edition which as you can imagine will be [...]

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Apple rejects fully licensed Commodore 64 Emulator from App Store

Another day, another rejection from the App Store, this time the app was a fully licensed Commodore 64 emulator. That said, although this rejection is a little disappointing, it seems a little more understanding. Anyway, according to Apple; Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We’ve reviewed C64 1.0 and determined that we cannot [...]

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Apple continues to reject apps because they have “sole discretion”

We have certainly seen our share of App Store approval horror stories and these latest are not offering any exception. The apps, in this case are WWCD - What Would Chuck Do and iLaughLite have both received a denial of entry and have both been given no real reason behind the denial. The reason, or more [...]

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Apple will not be charging users to re-download apps that are downloaded over-the-air

If you remember back about a week ago, we saw the iPhone alert about how we would have to repurchase apps that were previously purchased if it was done over the network connection. Of course, even at the time it seemed a little strange, however according to some detective work from the crew over at [...]

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Apple appears to be set to charge for re-downloading apps over-the-air

This latest bit is still unconfirmed, however it would appear as if Apple is planning to begin charging users that re-download an app over-the-air on iPhone OS 3.0. As it currently appears, iPhone users who purchase (and pay for) and application may end up being charged a second time for that same app. That is, assuming [...]

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Apple reconsiders, offers approval for Eucalyptus book reader app without any content restrictions

It is pretty safe to say that Apple had a change of heart due to all the coverage on this one. Anyway, if you remember back to last Friday we told you how the Eucalyptus book reader was denied approval because it offered users the possibility of downloading “objectionable content.” Of course, in this case [...]

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Apps to waste your weekend #01

In a new weekly feature, I will be highlighting a handful of apps that I discovered during the week. These apps will be a mix of helpful, novelty, entertaining or just simple time wasters. I do plan on making an effort to keep them as low priced apps, but am really not going to set [...]

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Eucalyptus ebook reader app gets denied due to potential access to the Kama Sutra, but for $0.99 I can still read it on the Kindle app

We have what would appear to be yet another questionable bad decision in regards to an app being denied entry into the App Store. This time that app is an ebook reader called Eucalyptus and it was denied because of potential access to the Kama Sutra. Thank you for submitting Eucalyptus — classic books, to [...]

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How much have you spent on App Store apps?

I have been seeing quite a bit of talk lately about how much Apple has made selling apps, as well as the high price of the recently released SlingPlayer Mobile app. Given that, I started to look at what I have on my iPhone, wondering how much I have spent so far. I will say that [...]

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Sling Media rumored to have already taken in over $200,000 from SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone

The SlingPlayer Mobile app for the iPhone first made its appearance in the App Store on May 13 and since then it has been ripped apart by just about every tech blog on the Internet. That said, it would appear that despite all of the complaining plenty of people have purchased the app which in [...]

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