Juggleware Developers' Blog » App Store http://www.juggleware.com/blog news and random thoughts from your friendly neighborhood independent developers at juggleware, llc Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:42:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sol: Sun Clock for iPhone now in App Store http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:57:30 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=406

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 …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/feed/ 0 Psychic Summit: Aquarium 2 app approved http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/12/psychic-summit-aqua2/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/12/psychic-summit-aqua2/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:01:38 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=337 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 …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/12/psychic-summit-aqua2/feed/ 1 Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun. http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/09/apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/09/apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:43:52 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=303 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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Initially we received a rejection letter from the App Store review team, saying that the app …

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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 …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/04/apple-v-satire-part-17/feed/ 0 Juggleware app mentioned on NPR http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/04/juggleware-app-mentioned-on-npr/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/04/juggleware-app-mentioned-on-npr/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:07:12 +0000 admin http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=231 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 …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/04/juggleware-app-mentioned-on-npr/feed/ 0 There You Go Again, Apple: Reagan App Hits App Store http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2009/12/there-you-go-again-apple-reagan-app-hits-app-store/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2009/12/there-you-go-again-apple-reagan-app-hits-app-store/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:18:41 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=197 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 …

]]> http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2009/12/there-you-go-again-apple-reagan-app-hits-app-store/feed/ 0 Right-wing Propaganda OK in App Store http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2009/10/right-wing-propaganda-ok-in-app-store/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2009/10/right-wing-propaganda-ok-in-app-store/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:21:26 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=184 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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