Posts Tagged ‘Policy’

Class Action Lawsuit Heading to Google over Refunds

March 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The industry complaint over and over when Google introduced the 48-hour refund policy in the early years of Android. Since then, the refund period was limited to 15 minutes and this is about to cause a new headache for the company.

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Apple Responds to Adult App Removal

February 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Four days after Apple started to remove sexually themed apps, the company’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, responded in an interview with the New York Times.

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App Store Allows Sweepstakes

February 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple made new changes to the developer agreement that will give developers more freedom when they want to promote their apps by introducing the possibility to organize sweepstakes.

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Adult Ban Kills 5.000 Apps on App Store

February 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last Friday we wrote about Wobble/iBoobs being removed from the App Store as Apple tightened the rules about adult/erotic apps. According to a call the developer had with Apple, 5.000 apps are banned.

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Apple Bans LBS Advertising

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has put a blog post online in which it asks developers not to use LBS data purely for advertising. Instead, Apple is pushing developers to do something useful with it.

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Ovi Re-Download Policy Widened

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Starting last month, we started tracking and covering Nokia's Ovi Re-Download functionality that was spotted in the wild. Following the official launch last week, the policy has already received it's first update.

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JeePee Banned from App Store

October 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Another interesting bit of news reached us when we heard the JeePee app has been removed from the App Store. The app was mocking the Dutch minister president Jan Peter Balkenende.

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Bolt Creative to Charge for Updates

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As HandyGames recently announced with PocketGamer, selling iPhone games at 99 cents is destroying the market as consumer expectations are lowered. Pocket God, feels the pain already and will start charging for extra's via micro transactions.