BillMinder is our most popular application. It has been in the Top 20 Paid Finance apps since it’s release over a year ago. We recently made a lot of changes to BillMinder and got some unexpected but appreciated help from Apple, <3. We thought we’d share what we did and what it changed.
The changes Apple made to its App Store through the release of iTunes 9 are being met with a mixture of gratitude and worry by iPhone developers. There’s appreciation for changes that improve app exposure but some developers, particularly smaller ones, are seeing a decline in sales.
Beyond the ongoing controversy over Apple’s management of the iPhone app approval process — which culminated in the unusual public posting of Apple’s response to an FCC inquiry about the way Apple vets apps — there’s the more mundane difficulty the company faces in managing its success.
Apple has banned an iPhone developer responsible for over 900 apps for repeated complaints of copyright infringement. Khalid Shaikh has seen his iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and Registered iPhone Developer Agreement terminated by Apple, who told Shaikh in its rejection email that it has “informed you of numerous third party intellectual property complaints concerning over 100 of your Applications and reminded you of your obligations to obtain the necessary rights prior to submission of your Applications.
The Spotify application for the iPhone extends the usefulness of the service greatly – at the cost of a tenner a month. However the app has one show-stopping flaw: you can’t play music when the application is in the background.
This is not a hindrance shared by the iPhone or iPod Touch’s default music application – and even on the earliest iPods, you could play Blocks or check your diary while music continued to play. For some this may merely be an irritating quirk, but for others it could be a deal-breaker. The whole point of getting a top-of-the-range music player is for its versatility.
Stumbled across this very useful cheatsheet for creating a Distribution Build to submit to the App Store.
http://iphonedevelopertips.com/xcode/iphone-distribution-build-cheatsheet.html
At work we think this is a fake app :) A very cool idea though.
I am not sure that the iPhone can respond to these kind of touches on the screen, so I think its either video editing or just a clever animation playing on the screen :)
Let us know what you think!
