BarMax Profiting at $1000 an App

How do you sell a $1000 dollar application on the iTunes App Store? You sell it to law students of course.

Law students who are taking the bar exam in California can currently purchase BarMax CA from the iTunes app store for the measly price of $999.99. But this actually isn’t bad, considering the leading competitor BarBri charges up to $4000 for their study guides.

Earlier this year, TechCrunch made aware the purpose of such an application.

“So what do you get for your $1,000 BarMax CA app? A lot, actually. The app is over 1 gigabyte in size, which is the largest application I’ve ever seen. It includes thousands of pages of materials as well as hundreds of hours of audio lectures. It’s all the information you could ever want for the two-month course. And again, it can be done all on your iPhone.”

Now, they’re following up to see how well it’s done in the App Store. Spoiler: it’s a success.

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My Favorite iOS 4-Ready Apps and “Subtle Changes”

So you’ve got iOS 4 installed on your iPhones and iPods and you want to know which apps in the App Store are already compatible with it. There are some great roundups around about it.

I’ve decided to put together a list of my favorite apps that are already using iOS 4’s new functionalities such as state-saving and multitasking. Plus, I’ve collected some of the “subtle changes” Apple has put into iOS, those little things that make you love Apple every time. Nik Fletcher has another similar collection too, check it out here.

What are your favorite apps and changes in iOS 4? Tell us in the comments below.

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Apple Sells 3 Million iPads in 80 Days

Apple has just issued a press release announcing that they’ve sold 3 million iPad units in 80 days and more than 11000 native iPad apps are out in the App Store.

Two weeks ago we reported that 10.000 iPad apps were available in the App Store, and 78% of them were paid applications. As for iPad sales, Apple announced 1 million units sold after 28 days, and 2 million units after 60 days. Sales are growing, and the only word I can think of right now is “impressive”. It’ll be interesting to see what’s going to happen with the iPhone 4 and iPad both out by this holiday season.

Check out the press release after the break.

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Jailbreak iOS 4 iPhone 3GS and Install Your First Cydia Apps [with Compatibility List]

iOS 4 came out yesterday, and right after iTunes finished to install it on our iPhones we all wondered whether jailbreak was still possible. Yes, it is. Using an unofficial build of Pwangetool by Criminal90 floating around on the internet (UPDATE: official PwnageTool for iOS 4 is out) and a couple of tricks, I managed to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS and install Cydia on it. Check out the full tutorial after the break.

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iOS 4, Google Apps and Auto-Lock Issues

TUAW is reporting that Google Apps users who tried to setup their account using Microsoft Exchange (ActiveSync) ended up with auto-lock automatically set to 1 minute.

“Apparently this is due to the security certificates that Google uses with its Exchange servers. The servers can force security options on compatible devices, which your iPhone becomes once it is running iOS 4.

To be clear: if you have a regular Gmail account and set it up using Exchange, this auto-lock requirement will not be triggered. But if you use Google Apps for your personal domain, it may.”

Some Google users have also reported other sync issues with iOS 4, head over this thread if you’ve been experiencing problems too.