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10 Apr 2009 16:15

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Tech: One lucky iPhone App Store user is gonna win the motherlode

Apple is celebrating its billionth App Store sale by giving one winner tens of thousands worth of Apple stuff. Yay! source

07 Apr 2009 21:56

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Tech: The latest get-rich-quick scheme: iPhone app development

  • $800,000 amount the creator of the app iShoot made in the App Store in five months source

30 Mar 2009 22:20

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Tech: Got an iPhone? Lacking morals & money? Try out app piracy

  • A quarter of the App Store’s 25,000 programs have been cracked to run for free. source
  • A single 5.4-gigabyte torrent file includes 808 cracked apps for you to use. source
  • The maker of one popular pay app, BeeJive, says 60% of its users have a pirated version. source
  • Users of cracked apps say they do it because you can’t try the apps first. source

06 Mar 2009 15:15

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Tech: Guess what’s coming? An alternative iPhone app store

  • Meet the Cydia Store. The Cydia Store, which only works on jailbroken iPhones, allows people to sell whatever iPhone apps they want, including one that allows you to use your phone like a modem and another that allows you to use your phone like a camcorder. These apps are currently not allowed in the App Store proper. Apple probably looks like this: >_< source

06 Mar 2009 15:09

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Tech: Why wouldn’t Apple like an alternative iPhone app store?

  • 30% The amount Apple gets on app store commissions source

21 Feb 2009 16:39

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Tech: Why it sucks to be an iPhone app

  • 30% of apps get used the next day, then forgotten about source

15 Feb 2009 16:27

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Offbeat, Tech: Pull my finger: This iPhone lawsuit is a total gas

  • One fart app vs. another fart app. iFart Mobile and Pull My Finger, two apps which are the driving force, we’re sure, behind the iPhone’s incredible popularity, are ensnared in a lawsuit over the use of the phrase “pull my finger.” Personally, we think someone should make an open-source farting application so we don’t have to use either one. source