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About the “lost” iPhone that was found in a bar in Redwood City…

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Let’s face it, it’s in their genes. And the latest traditional media story that includes us is a testament to that. Our part of the story is positive, but the overall focus is on developers who are having apps rejected. Here it is, on the front of the business section of yesterday’s (Sunday’s) St. Paul Pioneer Press: Local software developers struggle to meet Apple’s iPhone standards. (The photo with the story shows Ian, myself, and Pete — we look pretty happy, don’t we? Aren’t our little shoes cute?) Hey, we’re not struggling, but the other companies and developers cited in the story, who don’t yet have apps in the App Store, are — or so the story angle and headline seems to be saying. Sure, one of our apps, the Whoopie Cushion, was not accepted in our initial batch submitted — but we had five accepted so far, including three in the first week or so of the App Store’s life. So, we’re hardly hung up on the one that wasn’t accepted. (And many people are coming out in support of that one, both in countless emails to us, and in comments to this previous post on the Whoopie Cushion.) Read More »

After more than six weeks waiting for Apple to respond to the submission of our Whoopie Cushion app, we finally got a response from them recently. (We submitted this app just before the opening of the iTunes App Store, which was July 10th, along with some of our other early apps.) Unfortunately, the app was turned down, citing community standards in certain countries. However, we are continuing to work with Apple to see if there is any way to get it into the store. Thanks to all those who’ve emailed us asking for the app, or how you could get it! We will hopefully have some more news for you soon on this app.

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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs reported today in a Wall Street Journal article that, in the first month since the iTunes App Store opened, consumers have downloaded more than 60 million apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. “Ive never seen anything like this in my career for software,” he said. Apple sold about $1 million per day of paid apps over the month. At the current pace, the company “could stand to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store,” that article said. “This thing’s going to crest at half a billion, soon,” said Jobs. More details in the article, linked above.

Well, almost a month — a day short, actually, since the App Store launched July 10. The iPhone 3G launch was July 11, but, if you were paying attention, you knew that people were able to get at the App Store on iTunes the day before and start downloading. We were lucky enough to have our “myLIte Color Strobe and Flashlight” app up on the store right from the inception (followed by two more within a week, MyTo-Dos and Magic 8 Ball by DoApp). There were about 500 apps in the store when it opened, and there are about 1000 as of this date. Again, if you were paying attention, you may have known we launched myLite at 99 cents, then made the decision late on July 11 to drop the price to the best one of all: FREE! And we announced that fact with a press release early the morning of July 12 (a Saturday). Read More »

Well, Mark Zuckerberg is in the process of doing it again….changing the entire way Facebook works. Recently, his firm released “the new look” of Facebook, which you must opt-in to get. However, we can only wonder when they will switch their entire platform over to this look. My initial reaction to the change was, “Why?” Facebook has a great thing going — it’s clean (until we as users decide to add a thousand apps to our pages!), it works great, and it gets innovative updates all the time. Why now must it change and try to be an online operating system? Read More »

I fancy myself a mus-ic-aholic… addicted to the good beats of a song, especially while I have my head down cranking out code. I’ve been a Trance DJ for nearly five years and, over that time, the industry has really changed. When I started, DJ-ing with vinyls was the only way to go. I picked up my two Technic 1200 DJ edition turntables and skimped on a mixer in order to purchase some tracks to play. Yet, these days, I hardly find myself ever purchasing a CD anymore, let alone a vinyl. Have we gone completely digital with our music? I know I have…. Read More »

Check out this BusinessWeek article on iPhone apps.  Here’s an excerpt:

“For all the frenzy it generated, the new iPhone 3G was actually the second most important product launched by Apple on July 11. The real action was the opening of the iPhone App Store… ”

Love the image from the story, too….

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Being back from a trip to the sunny beaches of Mexico has got my mind thinking of many different things, all while working on a few of our upcoming projects. Specifically, I started looking at eBay and, after reading an article that came across my email entitled EBay still tops, but its traffic drops, Nielsen says, I started to really think about the online reseller market.

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