(screenshot of last year's iTunes Connect email) Apple notified developers this morning of its iTunes Connect holiday period, set to take place December 21-28, as noted by MacStories: iTunes Connect will be temporarily shut down from Friday, December 21, 2012 to Friday, December 28, 2012, for the winter holidays. [...] Additionally, the following will be...
A couple reports this morning have noted Apple is removing Emoji apps from the App Store, citing they are no longer required to unlock the icons initially made available to Japanese users. Emoji icons provide a plethora of advanced emoticons and was not supported natively until iOS 5. Prior to that, users needed free apps...
As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple has released iOS 6.1 beta to developers just after releasing iOS 6.0.1 publicly. Do note the image below refers to the iPhone 5 as A1428 (GSM for Canada; AT&T in the USA) and A1429 (CDMA for Verizon and others): Release notes aren't available yet so stay tuned for updates.
Flurry is back with a follow-up to one of their most popular reports, Mobile Apps: Money, Models and Loyalty that clearly indicates a need for developers to conquer the "new battleground" of engagement and retention if they want to succeed. A lot has changed in the three years since the original report was released, not...
When Apple released iOS 6 to the general public on September 19th, the Cupertino-based giant was well aware of the issues tagged along with the Maps application. A large segment of the public began to assume Apple wasn't aware of any Maps issues because they stalled on issuing a public statement for well over a week....
With the iPhone 5 release toppling us, Apple has set some new guidelines to application developers. When in the submission process of an application, developers must now provide additional screenshots with their submission. Here are the required screenshot resolution requirements: 640 x 1136 (portrait) 640 x 1096 (portrait) 1136 x 640 (landscape) 1136 x 600 (landscape) An application will not be reviewed...
Apple has released the final beta of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to developers. The GM releases is highly recognized to be the almost finished, and pretty close to the public version of any software Apple has released. At last months keynote, at WWDC 2012, Apple announced that Mountain Lion would be released sometime in...
Apple has updated iCloud.com Beta for developers and the new login screen reveals 'beta' labels for Calendar, Notes, Reminders and Find My iPhone web apps (as noted by MacRumors). Notes and Reminders are new to iCloud.com, as previously leaked back in May. iCloud.com allows users to add/edit Notes, Reminders and Calendar entries that will sync across...
The Royal Canadian Mint sent us an email about their new MintChip Challenge, where it is asking developers (including iOS) to create an innovate digital payment app using MintChip, their R&D phase technology. The plan is to have one lucky developer create a digital payment solution, and if chosen a prize of $50,000 in gold...
Apple has announced this morning a developer preview of its next release of its operation system, OS X Mountain Lion. This new OS is set to debut in the Mac Store in late summer 2012, and will essentially bring further iOS integration to the Mac. Apple's website already has a preview page up for OS...
Microsoft has announced details of their upcoming Windows Store, and its revenue share aims to undercut Apple's App Store as developers will have an opportunity to receive up to 80% of revenues: We will share up to 80% of the revenue generated from app sales. The revenue share base is 70%, but when an app...
Canadian iOS developer Owen Goss, from Streaming Colour Studios (based out of Guelph, Ontario) recently created a survey designed specifically for iOS developers. After it was all said and done, 252 devs completed his survey, as summarized in his meticulous analysis of the results. Owen's conclusion on revenue: What is fascinating to me is that the...