Some of our readers had also reported that their account were hacked and used to buy iPhone apps from the App Store.
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The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.
Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.
If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes (more…)

elaborating on the reasons why Apple has chosen not to allow Adobe Flash on their platform. The article contains several interesting pointers on why Flash could be an
on mobile devices like the iPhone .
In his letter, Jobs had pointed out that Flash was a proprietary technology that scores low on reliability and security. The Apple CEO had also pointed out Flash's growing irrelevance in the modern era dominated by touch screen devices and open (more…)

So what does Adobe think of Steve Jobs' opinion? In an interview to the
, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has reiterated his earlier stand that Apple 's decision to not allow Flash on the iPhone OS is more of a business decision than a technology one. He further questions Jobs' assertions that Flash is a dying technology.
” that Apple has chosen to call Flash a closed platform. He cited the release of the latest Creative Suite software as (more…)

Hi Steve,
Lots of people are pissed off at Apple ’s mandate that applications be “originally written” in C/C++/Objective-C. If you go, for example, to the Hacker News homepage right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/

You’ll see that most of the front page stories about this new restriction, with #1 being: “Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad” with (currently) 243 upvotes. The top 5 stories are all negative reactions to the TOS, and there (more…)

Adobe has now responded to Jobs' statements. In a blog post written earlier this week, Kevin Lynch, the CTO at Adobe defended Flash claiming that over 85% of the top websites in the world deployed Flash on their pages and nearly 98% of the computers today run Flash.
“I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.”
(more…)

“We do not agree with all of the statements made by Google in their FCC letter. Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google.”
But in a blog post, Google said:
“We continue to work with Apple and others to bring users the best mobile Google experience possible.”
The positive thing from today’s statements is that both Apple and Google have mentioned that they continue to work together.
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Apple 's response to FCC's letter is quite long but it provides some interesting details on Apple ’s App Store approval process and reason for some of the limitations imposed on some iPhone apps or the reason they were rejected.
it appears to alter the iPhone ’s distinctive user experience by
replacing the iPhone ’s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple
user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text
messaging (more…)

, however with AT&T’s statement, the ball is back in Apple ’s court.
WASHINGTON, DC – On July 31, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued letters to Apple , AT&T and Google with a series of questions about the Google Voice app and Apple ’s App Store approval process. AT&T today responded to the questions raised in the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau letter. The following statement may be attributed to Jim Cicconi, (more…)

“I haven’t sought Phil’s explicit permission to republish the letter, so I won’t do so here. But to summarize, he said: “we’re listening to your feedback”. Not all of my suggested solutions were viable, he said, but they were taking it all in as they continue to evolve the app store.
He went on to say that the rumors of widespread e-book app rejection I’d heard were false — that specifically one e-book app had been rejected because (more…)

Based on an interview with Matchstick Software,Gruber had reported that their iPhone app was rejected three times from the
. It was rejected the first time as it was crashing on the latest beta version of iPhone OS 3.0 and twice for objectionable content.
“Let me start with the most important points – Apple did not censor the content in this developer’s application and Apple did not reject this developer’s application for including references (more…)