I’ve been running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) developer releases full-time on my main Mac for the past 3 months. I do this with all major new releases so I can iron out bugs and really get to know the system before it goes public. For 10.6, the public release is this Friday, August […]

The latest ridiculous App Store power-play to make it into the public limelight is Apple’s alleged censoring of Ninjawords, an iPhone interface to a community-edited dictionary called Wiktionary. Before being approved, even as a 17+ rated title, the app’s developers were asked to remove specific words from the dictionary’s index. (Edit 8/6/2009: Since I wrote […]

Crashes suck. When an application experiences a crashing bug, it’s likely to stop running and take with it any unsaved work which you may have had open. Generally speaking, developers who take pride in their code also take pride in ensuring that it is resistant to crashing. Unfortunately, it can be difficult for developers to […]

Jens Alfke goes deep on the question of whether Apple’s recent and recurring stupidities with regard to iPhone App Store rejections amount to evil or not. It’s in Apple’s genetic code to be about as transparent as a lead brick […] but in the context of the App Store, Apple’s inscrutability and arbitrariness has become […]