With a new year come New Year’s resolutions: It appears as if Apple’s review teams not only became incredibly fast, they also seem to have changed some processes to the better.
Scattered reports on Twitter indicate, that recent app submissions got approved within hours – yes, you’ve read that right.
While in 2009 developers even turned their backs on the iPhone platform entirely, because of weeks and months of wait time before their apps hit the store, approving within hours has never reportedly happened before.
Another indication for a changed approach occurred to myself: Using private application programing interfaces (APIs) no longer causes a fully automated reject. (more…)
An iPhone 3G doesn’t come cheap, in fact, most monthly plans are pretty expensive. Yet bloggers are constantly writing about ways to save some money with the shiny object – such as VoIP calling (and not having to buy an iPod or GPS system). This morning I stumbled on a money-saving plan that concerns the most unfairly priced mobile technology of our time: SMS texting. It’s ridiculous how much we have to pay for transferring such a small amount of data. If we had to download a song from iTunes for SMS data costs, we’d pay €3,770 (based on calculations by Sam from a gthing science project).
So I don’t know about you, but I welcome every possibility to take away some money from this billion dollar SMS business. Here’s one:
- Download and install the free AIM client from the App Store.
- In your IM client, create a new contact whose AIM address is a plus sign and the mobile number of the recipient, such as “+31641510902″.
- Start texting away by looking up the new buddy on your AIM software. He or she will receive a SMS text message, yet the reply will end up in your AIM client.
Just so you know, this also works with an iPod Touch.
