Tag archive: Apple’s App Store

If you're tired of being tied to your desk while shopping for your next car, AutoTrader just made the process a whole lot easier. On Thursday, the largest car classified site in the U.S. launched an iPhone app so you can do your car shopping while you are out and about. The car searching giant already has a mobile website, but the new iPhone app adds some additional functionality over the mobile site.  Key features include dropping GPS… Read More

Word Lens, a new app from Quest Visual, is taking things to a whole new level. It analyzes text within an image it is viewing and instantly translates English to Spanish, or vice versa. The app itself is free, but each translation option costs $4.99 – meaning the Spanish to English and English to Spanish options are sold separately (you pay once, though, not each time you want to use it). And sorry – it's only available to iOS 4.0 or… Read More

Speculation that Apple is in talks to drop carrier distribution and sell the iPhone directly to consumers is circulating the Web this morning. GigaOm first reported the rumor, claiming that European sources know Apple to be in the process of creating a SIM card that can hop from carrier to carrier, potentially enabling users to purchase iPhones from the Apple Store (including the online store) and use the App Store to choose from among available… Read More

In a quick turnaround compared to its iPhone launches, Apple will officially introduce Wi-Fi models of the iPad in China on Sept. 17. The popular tablets will be available through its two Apple Stores in the country and through authorized resellers beginning Friday at 10am local time. The Apple retail stores will set-up the iPad’s e-mail and applications, along with holding special iPad workshops. Unlike the US launch prices, where the the 16GB… Read More

In response to Apple’s dramatic about-face yesterday on what tools programmers can use to develop iPhone apps, Adobe said it would resurrect its Flash-to-iPhone tool. Reversing its previously unpopular stance, Apple will no longer restrict  programmers to a handful of languages when developing software for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. “This is great news for developers,” Adobe said. A feature in the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool,… Read More

After the fallout Apple has experienced from banning thousands of “overtly sexual” apps from its now squeaky clean App Store, it came as a bit of a shock Wednesday when some developers reported that an “explicit” category had suddenly popped up in the automated app submission process. Perhaps less surprisingly, the category mysteriously disappeared later in the day, before any explicit-branded apps actually appeared for sale in the App Store.… Read More

Apple announced today that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 2 billion apps from its iTunes App Store since it was launched a little over a year ago. All told, Apple's App Store sports more than 85,000 applications for its portable devices—many of which, admittedly, are utter tripe—but perhaps more importantly the company boasts more than 125,000 developers in its iPhone Developer Program, meaning the concept has… Read More