Podcast Episode #025
iOS4 Installation and Usage iPhone 4 Discoloration Reviews Are Claiming the iPhone 4 is Seeing 35+ Hours Battery Life App Store Not Profitable for Apple Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days iPad Cases Apple: iPad case MARWARE: Eco-Vue for iPad MARWARE: Eco-Flip for iPad INCASE: Convertible Book Jacket Quirky: Cloak Tuff-Luv multi-view Napa [...]
App Store not profitable for Apple
According to MacStories.net, the App Store only contains 19% paid apps and of those apps, the average selling price is $1.49. Now that sounds pretty bad, but according to the article, apple makes $180M a year gross. Now that sounds like a lot, but Apple makes $33.7B a year gross. So not so much. Still, [...]
Wired.com is asking for App Store policy transparency
Wired.com has a great read on the App Store approval process and the need to make the process public knowledge. A Call for Transparency in Apple’s App Store: The iTunes App Store is nearly two years old, and Apple still has not published a clear set of guidelines about what type of content is and [...]
Mistakes and Chains of Events
Mike Ash from Rogue Amoeba has written an incredibly insightful article about the problems with Apple’s App Store and what Apple should be doing to make things right. The analogy using the KLM 747 plane crash and what was done to determine why that crash happened and what needed to be done to attempt to [...]
