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This has to be a joke of some kind or the families they are putting this surveillance on must have some kind of criminal records. Even then spending >$600MM on 20000 families to make sure the kids get proper care is ridiculous. They can rather develop schools with dorms with free education/food to make sure of that. WOW!!!

They are not very inconsistent with rules. I have 24 apps on the appstore and the ones that were rejected and later accepted were consistent with the policies aggregated here: http://appreview.tumblr.com/

I am upset because apple rejected google voice but so far I haven't seen anything which was rejected and was not on the list in the link.

Moreover, apple does have an appeal process. Once the app gets rejected they ask you to make changes, and resubmit the app.

There are definitely things that apple can do to improve the process for example, they should definitely get rid of changing the availability date with updates because a lot of developers just keep on posting updates with no real updates to be on the new release list. Check McPhun for example and they are actually able to keep themselves in top 10 for the past 6 months just because they have an update every week. But other than these minor issues which I am pretty sure apple will solve, there are a lot of good things going with it, which people tend to ignore.

I am really happy that Apple did this. There are multiple developers who are trying to do exactly what Khalid is doing with copyright infringement and taking advantage of dumb/stupid people (surprisingly some of his apps were in top 100 with 5 copied pictures @ $4.99).

This will definitely give a sigh of relief to legitimate developers.

I agree with you completely. I have a few apps of my own on the appstore and they are ranged between $0.99 to $14.99 and we make more money on higher priced apps than lower priced apps because it took more time and are serving niche markets. Generally speaking iPhone apps are easy/cheap to make so people saying that its not sustainable is BS. IMO every developer thinks that their app should make them enough money in 6 months time that they can retire off of it. Regarding the apple app rejection process, again developers/bloggers are being ridiculous. There are definitely some glitches but every system has its pros and cons. I think this article http://appreview.tumblr.com/ covers all the reasons apple has given for app rejection and none of them seems unreasonable to me.

I agree with Paul Graham completely. I wish there was some kind of founder VISA. I am graduating from penn state with a PhD. I have started my own startup which is developing educational apps for iPhone, android, desktop and web, but I am going to have a hard time staying back in US. I dont need to be present in US to run the business but I would prefer and wish there was something like a founder VISA for legitimate companies making more than $200k an year.

I think if you can add colors, numbers, alphabets with spoken versions will be great. You should check out the apps on iPhone for kids. Some of them are just off the hook.

This seems to be working way better than any of the speech to text recognition software I have used. And the fact that you can not only convert speech to text, but control the software is just crazy..

When you say "already established" and "capitalized" do you know the exact criterion? I am just curious because I will be going through the same hassle very soon.

I agree with you completely. It has to be one monthly payment to access internet anywhere and everywhere.

I am not sure about their service in Europe, but it has never been a problem for me in US. I have multiple AMEX cards.

We have 2 common apps on the android/iPhone app store. GRE review and GMAT review. Search for Watermelon Express on appstore/android market and you will find them.

I am not a developer so cannot tell you which platform is more fun to develop for. I have heard that developing for iPhone is relatively simple and easy.

But, I can tell you that I have 2 same apps on android and iPhone and the number of downloads differ by a factor of 500.

I have been using amex for years now. They have the best customer service. The dispute process is really simple/easy. Whenever, I have to buy something from a place I haven't heard off or looks a little shady I use Amex.

Clayton nails it down pretty good. For more about education and technology you can read this issue of this science magazine http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol323/issue5910/index.dtl...

The interesting thing in the science mag was this video http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/53b in which they blamed standardized tests for ruining american education. Funny thing is none of them are doing anything to solve the problem.

I have a general question about this.

Say, a company releases an API which is used by a lot of other developers to make third party apps based on a TOS. An year down the line, the company decides to change the TOS such that all the apps become illegal, is their a legal recourse for the third party developers which can help them to be still able to sell their apps, of course legally?

If you are embedding a web page in your app and if it has links to other pages, you can essentially use it as a browser.

My problem with apple strategy is that they have safari browser and they should rate iPod/iPhone 17+ because of that and if they dont then rating all the apps who are accessing the internet should be rated 17+

this is what I was asking. It looks perfect. Thanks nirmal

Yes I noticed the same thing. But the title of the post says Interface and mentions needs work, so, I will give these guys a slack.

I know the title says (needs work), but I just wanted to point out that having points and posted time will be really useful.

I love the way the author picked all the essentials from everywhere around the web and combined them together in a comprehensive format.

I do tend to agree that a web based OS is the way to go. Its not going to happen tomorrow, next year or 5 years down the line. But it will be the future. Every piece of software you use will be a web app with bunch load of analytics/monitored with a recommendation engine. I know it will go through a lot of skepticism for privacy reasons, but there will be laws amended to make sure that google or no one owns it. The web apps will be such that they are centric to mobile based smart phones and adobe air like software at the start and slowly adapt. Its the future, and I for one is already working towards achieving it for our apps. :)

-Ujjwal

What kind of application you want to develop? We are NY based company developing iPhone apps. We have currently 24 apps on the appstore. You can click on my nickname for more information.

First of all I want to say that I have used justin.tv a lot during the NBA season. It was awesome, so thanks to you guys.

Secondly, I like the redesign which IMO is much better than the previous one because of a few reasons:

1) Bigger screen are devoted to video which is why people use the website 2) Of course less ads, which, will please a lot of current users. 3) Less scrolling, better website IMO 4) Grey background is way better than the black one.

I think if you can have an on/off button for chat, it will greatly improve personal experience, because I think not a lot of people come to website to chat with others, but to watch.

Good luck.

-Ujjwal

make an iPhone app where users can share there karma's with their friends/everyone it might be a successful business. Being a website, I doubt a lot of people are going to use it.

It totally depends on the situation. If I know the product is from someone who is good at what they do, I will be fine doing testing if it is benefiting me. Otherwise, no way.

As a startup developing a lot of iPhone apps and having experience for more than 8 months working within the appstore system I wont go to the extent of saying that apple doesn't care. What I have realized is Apple takes time to implement anything because they want to make sure that whatever comes out is good.

I agree with you that everyone, I mean everyone asks their friends etc. to post 5 star reviews, and we did that too initially, but not anymore. We did it initially because competitors were posting bad reviews and we had to counter them.

I think the solution to it will be if the appstore review becomes a threaded discussion board in which developer can post comments to any reviews and everything is attached with an email. So, if a user posts a review and a developer replies to that review, there should be an email sent back to the reviewer stating the developers comment. And there should definitely be a system in place where any review posting on any store front for all the apps by the developer of that app should be alerted by an email. I have a lot more suggestions of improving it, which I will post a blog upon on our website soon.

our website was very similar but then our business model changed, and we developed apps for desktop and web which sync, so we had to go back to mainstream website design...

I agree with you, but do you know of a better/more efficient solution?

I don't know of a solution better/more efficient than a written test. The education system is different in India and I like that system somewhat better. There is an entrance exam you need to give to enter into high profile colleges which has a defined syllabus but no questions are repeated and are based on your understanding of the subject rather than rote learning.

I don't completely agree with the article. I am a firm believer that SAT Score provides some credibility to your thinking ability but calling it an IQ test is not correct. IQ test doesn't require any syllabus, its a general methodology to determine how you intellectually analyze.

We are developing SAT prep apps for iPhone, desktop and web and I believe that people can score higher if they practice a lot which is not true for an IQ test IMO.

Awesome!!! Now I can give my laptop to other people without the need to delete my browsing history ever. I wish iPhone add similar feature to mobile safari.