Category Archives: App Store

Sol: Sun Clock for iPhone now in App Store

Posted on January 16, 2012 by alec

We’ve been working on this one for months and I’m happy to announce that Sol: Sun Clock, our lastest iPhone app, is now available in Apple’s App Store.

It lets you look at the day’s sunlight times, quickly …

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Psychic Summit: Aquarium 2 app approved

Posted on December 20, 2010 by alec

There’s been lots of App Store news here recently, but this one is extra special to us because Juggleware was so heavily involved in the design as well as the programming of this one (with Communal). It was a …

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Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun.

Posted on September 9, 2010 by alec

Well the Freedom Time controversy has long passed from my mind, except when some other story pops up that reminds me.

Today I had the chance to read Apple’s new App Store Approval Guidelines (registered developers can read them here…

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Streaming Radio app approved

Posted on April 19, 2010 by admin

Fast on the heels of the last post, we are pleased to announce that Apple has approved Juggleware’s latest app, Radio Backporch Revolution.

Initially we received a rejection letter from the App Store review team, saying that the app …

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Apple v. Satire, part 17.

Posted on April 19, 2010 by admin

Pulitzer-prize winning satirist Mark Fiore had his app rejected by Apple because it “ridicules public figures.”

Regular readers will remember that Juggleware’s own app Freedom Time was actually the test case of this unwritten and up-til-then unknown policy, which had …

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Juggleware app mentioned on NPR

Posted on April 6, 2010 by admin

NPR ran a story yesterday about Apple’s new iPad which just hit stores, but critics say that the “walled garden” approach (just like the iPhone) makes the Internet a less free place and could spell the end of the net …

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There You Go Again, Apple: Reagan App Hits App Store

Posted on December 5, 2009 by alec

As you all know by now,, Apple banned our Bush countdown timer for being political: lightly satirizing an almost universally despised leader was in the word of Steve Jobs, potentially offensive to half his customers. That smacked of censorship to …

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Right-wing Propaganda OK in App Store

Posted on October 8, 2009 by alec

So, it’s not acceptable to poke gentle fun at a politician, and it’s not acceptable to make an app that helps people promote health care reform.

But it is perfectly all right to make an app that spreads …

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Apple rejects health care app for being “politically charged”

Posted on September 30, 2009 by alec

Even more shame-worthy behavior from Apple. I thought it was being mean to politicians that Apple didn’t like—apparently now, it’s being “politically charged?” What the hell are Apple’s standards here? Whoops, I just said “hell,” which in the iPhone’s Disney-like …

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