I’m happy to report that Pinch Media has launched its second product, Pinch Advertising. Like Pinch Analytics before it, Pinch Advertising is a drop-in library for your iPhone SDK applications. It’s integrated with your application by means of a few method calls, and makes it easy for developers to make money from their [...]
Curious - unlike last week, there wasn’t a single update to the AppStore this Sunday or so far Monday morning. This might provide us with a bit of insight into Apple’s operating procedures - assuming application updates and additions resume again tonight, it’s quite consistent with a review team that works Monday through Friday, [...]
Apple’s added the ‘Books’ category to the AppStore, and has moved the e-books released by AppEngines and others there. This is yet another quick response to user feedback, in line with the AppStore alphabetization tweaks - many thought the sheer number of e-books were spammy and complained.
The AppEngines e-books are nice - I’ve bought [...]
We’re happy to announce today the release of a few new RSS feeds which provide a way to view activity in the Apple App Store without having to load up iTunes or the App Store on the iPhone yourself. The first two feeds are the most recent stream of new and updated applications added into [...]
An interesting dynamic in the AppStore - for the first time since launch, ‘free’ is not the most popular application price. In addition, the percentage of applications that are free is falling. At launch, almost a quarter of applications were free. As of this morning, Pinch Media tracked 798 applications in the [...]