#iPhoneDev

By now you’ve probably all heard about apps being rejected by app store reviewers only to have the outcome overturned by Steve Jobs himself. The latest case even involves a developer being allowed to use a private api (a major no no for the rest of us unworthy developers.)

Well I say NO MORE! For the first time ever I am going to share with you the secret to getting your app rejections overturned

Introducing The Steve Jobs Card (very rare):

” Tap Steve Jobs to instantly overturn your app store rejection. You may only posses one Steve Jobs card per deck and it may only be played once per game. Playing this card will boost your noteriety mana +100, But you will incur -50 damage to the support of your fellow dev’s. Caution: this card can be blocked if your opponent casts the common sense spell. ”

Download your very own hi-res version of the Steve Jobs Card HERE!

The other day I received my first “new” email notification from the App Store Review team . . .

Yay!, Apple must be reviewing my app I thought. But then the email body contained the unfortunate “Your application review process will require additional time.” #fail.

I’m really not sure how these changed state emails are going to provide developers with any helpful information. Previously our app status would have shown In Review and we would have had to wait until it was either accepted or rejected. Now we can see if the our apps are waiting for review or actually are in review sure, but how does that help me? Knowing that my application state has changed isn’t a huge relief to me either. What knowledge have I gained? I still have to wait until it is either accepted or rejected and now I have an additional step to add to my anxiety.

As you can see from the these screen shots the Status History doesn’t provide much helpful information either. It would at least be interesting if we could see which App Reviewer was looking at our app. Instead it just says Apple. No kidding, really? Can you imagine seeing inspected by number 7.

I guess it’s a good sign that Apple is trying to provide more information to developers regarding their cryptic review process but we are far from a perfect system.

OK boys and girls I will spare you the fanfare, hype and waiting. Were going to get right down to the meat and potatoes of today’s Apple Press Event (It’s Only Rock & Roll.) Thanks to theappleblog.com & gdgt.com for their live coverage of the event. Without them I would not have had this info or these pictures to bring to you.

Steve Job’s is back and did a large part of the presentation. He has the liver from a 20 something male who  died in an unfortunate car accident and donated his organs.

iPhone & App Announcements:

30 million iPhone sold.
App store a year old. 75,000 apps.
1.8 billion apps downloaded.

iTunes Announcements:

iTunes 9. (Available for download NOW)
“Genius mixes.”
Manage apps on the iPhone via iTunes!
“Home Sharing.” Copy songs, movies, TV shows among up to 5 authorized computers.
iTunes LP – Albums w/ photos, lyrics and more!
Share on Facebook or Twitter with iTunes.

iPod & iPod Touch Announcements:

iPod has 220 million sold. 73.8% market share.
20 million iPod touches sold.
Number of games: PSP: 607. DS: 3680. iPhone: 21,178

8GB iPod touch new pricing: $199
32GB touch is $299 and 64GB touch is $399. 50% faster.
iPod Classic now $249 + 160GB (up from 120)

iPod Nano Announcements:

Black, silver, pink, green, and blue. $59 for 2GB, $79 for 4GB.
Special edition stainless steel for $99.
new iPod nano: video camera, larger 2.2-inch display, polished anodized aluminum, mic and speaker, VoiceOver, FM Rradio, pedometer.
8GB: $149. 16GB: $179.
Syncs back to your mac and has one click sending to YouTube.

Bda, Bda, Bda, That’s all folks!

Sorry to disappoint all the rumor mongers out there but Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” Press event just ended and for now the next generation of iPod Touch will NOT have a camera. They did however add some cool new stuff. Stay tuned for my next post which will list all the new goodies & features.

I wasn’t paying attention yesterday when I opened iTunes it told me there was a new version of  iPhone OS that fixed a major vulnerability. Without thinking I went ahead and updated my iPhone OS to 3.0.1 No big deal right? WRONG. All of a sudden XCode no longer recognizes my phone as a development device.

What this means is that I can no longer test code on my phone

After a quick search I found the solution posted on the iphonedevsdk forums! The original post can be found at http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-tools-utilities/21005-xcode-3-1-3-3-0-7a341.html

For those of you who just want the fix and want it now, here it is . . .

(Just paste this line into a terminal window while XCode is closed)

ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0\ \(7A341\) /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0.1

That did it for me, hopefully it helps you!

Yesterdays WWDC Keynote is available for direct download (1.34GB)

http://movies.apple.com/datapub/us/podcasts/apple_keynotes/wwdc2009.m4v

For a few of you who may be living under a rock or for those of you who are still under the delusion that you need Microsoft Windows in order to function, the WWDC is Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. If you fall into either of those categories please do yourself a favor and watch the keynote. For the rest of you, enjoy!”

Speaking of Microsoft . . . “Hey MS guess what?, Apple is going to sell the next major version of there operating system (Snow Leopard) for only $29 or $49 for family pack (up to 5 computers)!

I bet you couldn’t even get people to buy Vista for that price