Apple’s New Clips App Creates Another Way to Tell Stories
It seems as if everybody wants to play the Snapchat game these days, which is understandable given the ephemeral image messaging app’s popularity with young people (and investors, of course). Instagram and Facebook have already looted the Stories feature, and now it appears as if Apple is doing a little borrowing of its own with […]
Netflix Secures Top Grossing iPhone App Rating
Netflix’s app has only been available in the Apple App Store for a year or so. In spite of it’s newcomer status to mobile, the app just snagged Apple’s coveted “top grossing iPhone app” rating, signaling huge potential for NYC iOS app developers entering the mobile market with streaming-based products. The rating comes as a […]
App Store Review Process Cut by More than a Third
New data from AppReviewTimes.com indicates that review times in the Apple iOS and Mac app stores are down approximately a third in both categories, prompting widespread approval from iPhone app developers excited about faster and more frequent app update possibilities. As of this writing, the Mac App Store average review time was down to 1.17 […]
Yik Yak iPhone App Developers Launch Web App
Yik Yak took another step towards social network maturity in the past couple weeks, as the iPhone app developers behind the trending location-based messaging service launched a web app platform. The web app has been in closed beta for several months now; with Yik Yak’s popularity skyrocketing on college campuses across the US the new […]
iPhone App Developers at MicSwap Supercharge your iPhone Mic
The iPhone has become slimmer, stronger, and more feature-rich with every update to the original design — but when it comes to sound input and output, the hardware doesn’t always live up to its true potential. Luckily, a group of musicians-turned-iPhone-app-developers is working to solve this small but unnecessary problem. The result: MicSwap, a new […]
Vine Founder Launches Peach, a Social Network iPhone App
Dom Hofmann, founder of the wildly successful video-sharing iPhone app Vine, has been back in the news the past couple weeks drumming up buzz for a new social networking startup. Peach is an iPhone app developed to capitalize on the success of uber-simple sharing apps like Ello by applying an equally simple mobile messaging interface. […]
Stop Deleting and Start Writing With First Draft Mac App
“Stop deleting and start writing” — so reads the tagline behind a compelling new app called First Draft from the app development team at 96 Problems, a creative app development company. First Draft will be familiar to iOS app users in particular for its similarity to other minimalist writing tools favored by iPad app developers, […]
Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]