Comments on: Apple Launching App Store Beta Program

By: search engine optimisation gold coast

search engine optimisation gold coast — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:42:55 +0000

when is the phone quality going to match the coolness of the iphone? give me a better phone!

By: andar909

andar909 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:04:11 +0000

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By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:09:42 +0000

Precisely. It doesn’t install it on your iPhone, it opens a sandbox for testing with.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:08:13 +0000

well - who says that the app store is going to continue to grow?
900 apps in a week isn’t that impressive. facebook got a crap load of apps right away, as did win mobile. try to put some of this hype into perspective.

…dumbass.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:07:05 +0000

any word on what the people at iCall are doing? Any plans for an iCall iPhone beta?

By: SCM

SCM — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:28:10 +0000

In my view this whole being tied to some app store is worse than what Microsoft ever did to consumers. Sorry, just my 5 cent.

By: lopo66

lopo66 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:25:08 +0000

i m looking for freinds froom libya

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:16:39 +0000

This week, Apple also changed the Enterprise app dev policy. Now their policy requires a company to have a minimum of 500 employees, to be qualified as an enterprise app development company. I think this is quite ridiculous.
I am wondering

1) if they plan to icrease the fee from $399 to some thousands and

2) if they are planning to create a separate area to separate the Enterprise apps from the others.

By: MGZ

MGZ — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:44:25 +0000

This would jive with a recent change to the Enterprise Developers program that indicates you must have 500 employees in your company to be allowed in the enterprise dev program. And one of the primary benefits of that program is the ability to install your apps on in-house iPhones.

So it sounds like they are going to provide a way for regular developers to do the same thing as enterprise developers have been able to do.

By: Ryan Waggoner

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:39:36 +0000

Not to mention that 99% of them are pure shit, assuming you can even find them “somewhere online”.

By: Robert Basil

Robert Basil — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:37:09 +0000

The iPhone store has been public for just over a week. How long have Windows Mobile developers been about to sell software?

Dumbass.

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:34:56 +0000

After a week?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:33:01 +0000

unprecedented? 909 applications?

there are more than 18,000 publicly-available applications for Windows Mobile

By: cipper

cipper — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:29:02 +0000

Looks great, I don’t know how Apple approves the apps, manually I think O__O.

By: iDev

iDev — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:25:32 +0000

Yep, it is exactly that. It can best be used for beta testing and completely useless if you want to sell your app to large number of people.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:22:09 +0000

Exactl, you’re part of the developer’s program, regular people don’t have X-Code, or even a mac.

By: john

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:17:34 +0000

that’s what it sounds like to me…

By: mike

mike — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:09:24 +0000

Are you sure this isn’t just AdHoc distribution?

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:04:36 +0000

I think he was referring to the fact that you can’t let people who aren’t in the dev program use an app that is in development.

By: zainy

zainy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:01:47 +0000

“The big problem here is that the only way to install software on an iPhone or iPod touch is with the App Store.”

I don’t understand. I’m part of the dev program and all I have to do to install my software on the iPhone is click “Compile and Go” in X-Code. What are they talking about?

By: Ryan Waggoner

Ryan Waggoner — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:30 +0000

Excellent…the App Store itself needs a Beta label

By: David Fisher

David Fisher — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:03 +0000

100 users per app seems insufficient for most beta testing, but I guess everyone has the same software/hardware so it might work ok. I could also see it basically only being a few people constantly refreshing to get access to the beta software.

I’m still waiting for the (still vapourware) Qik for the iPhone.

Its good they are putting in some beta provision however, as I’ve found several of the Apps (even Super Monkey Ball) to have crashes/bugs.

By: Robert Basil

Robert Basil — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:56:59 +0000

Great! I know of one twitter app that still has version 1.0 in the store while v1.1 and v1.2 are finished and still waiting to be “approved” by Apple.