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The Magic Formula For Getting Your App Featured By Apple

It’s the dream of pretty much everyone who has worked on an app to get an app featured by Apple.  By now I’m sure we’ve all heard the stories of ridiculous profits that can be earned within a few days.

Now the problem is, how does Apple choose which apps are featured?  I’ve seen absolute junk get featured in the Canadian app store while some brilliant apps seem to get glanced over.  So unfortunately,  no matter what luck definitely seems to be the biggest factor in the formula for getting your apps featured in the magic formula.

Store Kit In-App Purchase Tutorials

This site is often searched for is the Store Kit and in-app purchase tutorials.

There is a very straightforward tutorial for store kit basics that can be found here: Using Store Kit Framework

Yesterday, I found this excellent list of resources on In-app purchasing.  Which lists the Apple resources, and others that describe the process of implementing in-app purchases.  If you want to know everything about in-app purchases you’ll find it in a resource on that list.

7 Massive Marketing Mistakes GUARANTEED To Even Kill Killer Apps

Editors Note: I received this submission, and I was reluctant to look at it since there seems to be a flood of marketers trying to cash in as app marketing experts.   I decided to accept this one as it is somewhat different, and didn’t simply provide a simplistic list of tips such as take good screenshots, start a blog, or sell internationally.  Please comment on whether you’d like to see more content on app marketing in the future. – John

iPhone Development On Windows – 6 Options

Some time ago I decided to list a couple of options available for iPhone development on Windows and iPad development on Windows. Now, months later this is still something that has been brought up recently. So I have decided to expand the list, and include some of the other solutions that have cropped up since the original posting, and some upcoming that look interesting.  Please note, that there is no official solution for developing for the iPhone SDK on windows (and it’s doubtful there ever will be).

2 Great New Open Source iOS Apps: iStrobe and Ecological Footprint

I’ve extended the open source iPhone apps list with two great new apps.  

The quest for quality iPhone and iPad programming examples continues and both of these apps are app store apps that the creators generously decided to open source.  While there are a lot of great examples on the list with the continuous release of new features more are always welcome.