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Rejection Redux: NDA May Not Be News

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, in an attempt to get to the bottom of the PodcasterGate’s latest controversy, namely Apple reportedly slapping “NDA” (Non-Disclosure Agreement) on the rejection notices and discussion there off, confidentially polled developers and came to the following conclusion: My conclusion is that as [redacted] up as this entire situation is, both with the [...]

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 7:55 AM by The iPhone Blog

Filed under: News, development, Developers, controversy, rumor-smasher, gruber, DaringFireball, podcaster, App Store Apps

PodcasterGate: The Great App Rejection Debate

Seems it wasn’t a hair that broke the blogerati’s back, it was an App. Or more precisely, it was Apple’s denial of the Podcaster App that let loose the floodgates of negative internet reaction. Or even more precisely, it is the continued lack of certainty among developers as to what can and will be denied [...]

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 3:00 PM by The iPhone Blog

Filed under: New York Times, Editorial, controversy, app store, daring fireball, podcaster, App Store Apps, roughly drafted

Is MobileMe Secure Enough for Your Data?

It started innocently enough. Prince Mclean over at Apple Insider commented in passing: Data transaction security in MobileMe’s web apps is based upon authenticated handling of JSON data exchanges between the self contained JavaScript client apps and Apple’s cloud, rather than the SSL web page encryption used by HTTPS. The only real web pages MobileMe exchanges [...]

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 3:55 PM by The iPhone Blog

Filed under: Security, General, ssl, controversy, mobileme

App Store Re-Ordered, Developers Still Daunted

A few posts back we got into a few App Store early growing pains/gripes, including that some less-scrupulous — or more marketing-savvy, depending on your point of view — developers were prepending spaces and symbols to their App names in order to get them to sort higher in the alphabetical listings. Well according to MacUser [...]

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 2:55 PM by The iPhone Blog

Filed under: General, Developers, controversy, app store, hockenberry

App Store Redux: 10 Million Downloaded, but Are they Well Coded?

The App Store went live last week (what day exactly depends on whether you snuck in to iTunes 7.7 and snooped around on your own, or waited for the official links to surface), tying in to the iPhone 3G and 2.0 software launches. How’d it do? According to Steve Jobs: “The App Store is a grand [...]

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 6:03 PM by The iPhone Blog

Filed under: News, 10 million, Developers, controversy, app store

Chime in on the HTC video driver controversy over at Engadget!

Filed under: HTC , Misc It's pretty clear that HTC's stance on the lack of ATI Imageon video drivers in recent devices has caused quite a stir over here at the Mob, so we thought some of you would be interested in heading over to Engadget classic to voice your opinions in poll form . This seems to be a somewhat divisive issue, so your input would be greatly appreciated. Also, feel free to take part in the burgeoning comment thread: gotta keep the pressure on, right? Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Published Wed, Jan 01 2008 5:09 AM by Engadget Mobile

Filed under: Misc, HTC, Polls, Qualcomm, poll, TytnIi, tytn II, Tilt, amd, ati, video drivers, VideoDrivers, controversy

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