arstechnica.com - 2/8/2009
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A few months back, Ars discussed the challenges involved in creating light versions of applications. Although the App Store is full of demo versions, Apple's official policy has been that those demonstration versions must be fully functional stand-alone entities. Because of this, ...
appcubby.com - 2/10/2009
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appcubby.com —
This post may make a bit more sense
in light of my two prior posts: " Financial...
Realities of the App Store " and " App Store Pricing (It's not a free market!) " With App Store shoppers seemingly hesitant to risk $5+ on a new app, I decided to do a ...
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appleinsider.com - 2/13/2009
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appleinsider.com —
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed requests with
the US Copyright Office to exempt activities from legal...
threats under the DMCA, one of which attacks Apple's secured software business model on the iPhone.
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Apple and EFF argue over iPhone jailbreaking
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App Store: "Demo" no, "Lite" yes
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Apple, iPhone, App StoreOur dear friend Erica Sadun has outlined one of Apple's more sticky App Store policies over at Ars Technica. There's been a lot of customer pressure, as we've said before, to put "try it" versions of apps on the App Store, and quite a few developers have done exactly that, by releasing a "Free" or "Lite" version of the paid app along with the real thing. But Apple has some pretty strict rules about doing so: every app on the store needs to be fully ...
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