iTunes Connect Mobile App Updated with iPad Support, Retina Graphics, iBookstore Stats

iTunes Connect Mobile is an app for iOS developers that allows them to check on their Apple dev account to see detailed information about the apps currently on sale in the App Store. It’s basically a mobile extension of the Sales & Trends section in iTunes Connect. The app can display data via table or graph format and it comes with filters and menus to restrict a search to specific countries and periods of time.

The latest 1.1 update, released last night, introduces support for the iPad (the app has gone universal), Retina graphics, multitasking and support for iBookstore providers.

A must-have for iOS developers, available for free here. Also, developers: iTunes Connect won’t be available starting December 23rd through the 28th.

Some MobileMe Features Going Free with iOS 4.2?

When Apple released the first GM seed of iOS 4.2 to developers, we noticed that they implemented the possibility to create a free Apple ID inside the MobileMe settings page and even sign in to MobileMe using an Apple ID. The functionality wasn’t working back then and it still returns an error today, and we speculated Apple might be taking the necessary measures to open up MobileMe’s services to a wider audience already using an Apple ID. As noted by MacRumors last night, though, it looks like that was the first move to make MobileMe free to some iOS users, or at least some specific sections of MobileMe. Read more

John Carmack on RAGE, Technical Limitations, Design Choices→

John Carmack on RAGE, Technical Limitations, Design Choices

John openly admits that they’re still experimenting with the App Store. So far Rage has been very successful in the few days it has been out, but they’re still waiting to see the long-term results of a shorter, lower-priced game. He explained that it’s still a point of discussion at Id as to whether the next games are going to be bigger and higher priced, or smaller and lower priced like RAGE.

If this is just an experiment, both from a pricing and technical standpoint, then I wonder what we’ll be able to play on a 3.5-inch screen in 2 years. The iOS gaming scene couldn’t be more promising.

In case you missed the whole story: Rage HD is available at $1.99 in the App Store, and it’s mind-blowing.

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iPad Owners, Get Ready for TweetMag [Preview Video]

Running a blog, it’s perfectly normal that you stumble upon unreleased applications from developers asking you to “take a quick look” at what they’ve been working on. It happens every day, and we love it. But there are some apps you look forward to on your own, without the need of a developer sending you 5 emails a day to ask for bugs found in the beta and “feedback on the UI”.

TweetMag for iPad is one of those apps. Read more

Aweditorium With Background Audio Is The Perfect Way To Enjoy Your Weekend

Aweditorium is a great music discovery app for iPad that launched two weeks ago, and I’ve been addicted to it since then. The app allows you to discover independent artists through a gorgeous “wall” visualization you can manipulate with your fingers. From my review:

So you have all these thumbnails on this digital grid / map, and you can tap around to load a specific song from a band you likely don’t know about. If you do know the artist, the experience is great nonetheless. This is the idea behind Aweditorium: you can listen to songs, byt why limiting the experience to just listening to something? Let’s put some additional information in there, and let’s forget about mimicking real-life objects. Let’s make it all be proud of being digital, meant for the iPad.

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Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components→

Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components

If you look at MacStories’ sidebar, you can see there’s a banner with a white iPhone 4. He’s from the kid (Fei Lam) who runs WhiteiPhone4Now.com, the same kid who has been making the rounds of the internet this week with rumors of Apple going after him with a private investigator to find out how he managed to get the components. Lam apparently told the press he got the components from Foxconn itself, but now Hon Hai (Foxconn’s parent company) is denying any Foxconn worker ever sold white iPhone parts.

Foxconn Technology Group employees didn’t sell white iPhone casings and other parts as reported by media including the Apple Daily, its flagship Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange today.

Now, I don’t know what are the legal implications behind this whole story, mostly because it seems like Lam also managed to raise some good bucks out of his “conversion kits”. But I do know one thing: he’s just a kid.

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Apple Posts “iAd Highlight Video” Ahead Of European Launch

Earlier today Apple posted a video on advertising.apple.com to showcase the various iAd campaigns the company has launched up until today in the U.S. The video features brands such as AT&T, Nissan and JCPenney.

Apple announced yesterday iAds are coming to European countries in December. The first companies that will launch iAd campaigns in Europe are L’Orèal, Renault, Luis Vuitton, Nespresso and Perrier & Unilever. Despite some initial concerns of excessive control and a cancelled Adidas campaign, Apple has already signed on over half of the top 25 US advertisers. Read more

White iPhone 4s Being Sold … In China?

Giz-China has posted a report and photos claiming that genuine white iPhone 4s are being sold in China’s grey market. What is a grey market you ask? It’s a system involving the secret but not illegal (black markets) sale of goods at excessive prices. Many unofficial resellers in China have a large amount of these and are selling them online.

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