marco.org - 3/10/2009
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John Gruber on Crackulous , the automated app-pirating tool for jailbroken iPhones: I suspect we’ll soon start seeing high-profile App Store apps that attempt to detect whether they’re running on a jailbroken phone, and, if so, quit. That’s not the best approach to counter this. It would be too ...
appleinsider.com - 3/10/2009
tgdaily.com - 3/10/2009
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tgdaily.com —
With nearly 27,000 applications now available on Apple's
App Store, the number of iPhone applications has now...
exceeded what it took Windows Mobile nine years to amass. With an addressable market of at least 23 million active devices, the iPhone ...
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Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually ...
iphonefootprint.com - 3/11/2009
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iphonefootprint.com —
What apps do you have on your iPhone?
Super Monkey Ball? A word game? Some calculators and...
flashlights? While the whole process of getting a new app on your iPhone seems devilishly simple—tap on the app store icon, confirm purchase, and wait for a ...
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Reasons why application developers hate Apple and the ...
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iPhone developer takes measures to combat piracy
Macworld —
... from the App Store. On the off chance that the application starts harassing users who’ve purchased it legitimately or even just in case users take issue with the fact that the application “phones home,” the developer has made sure that this functionality can be remotely disabled. Although this is one of the first examples of a developer actually having implemented anti-piracy measures in their application, other developers have already been talking about this issue for a while now, one of the most notable being Marco Arment , the developer of iPhone application ...
iPhone developer takes measures to combat piracy
iPhone Central —
... from the App Store. On the off chance that the application starts harassing users who’ve purchased it legitimately or even just in case users take issue with the fact that the application “phones home,” the developer has made sure that this functionality can be remotely disabled. Although this is one of the first examples of a developer actually having implemented anti-piracy measures in their application, other developers have already been talking about this issue for a while now, one of the most notable being Marco Arment , the developer of iPhone application ...
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