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I didn’t give much thought to software piracy until I saw one of our iPhone apps, iPizzeria, cracked and being distributed for free on the Internet. The numbers are staggering and a heavy blow to small software shops trying to survive by selling apps for only a few dollars or sometimes just 99 cents each. [...]

Our half-baked and ill-conceived Lametard IQ app has been hovering around #70 in the Entertainment|Free category of the App Store. This is rather interesting for devs because first it reveals how many downloads per day you’d expect to see at this level, about 1600/day. If you’re interested in Lite-to-Full conversions then that would translate into [...]

For still unknown reasons our Lametard IQ app [App Store] has taken off like a rocket in the App Store, surpassing 1600 downloads a day. This wasn’t supposed to happen. It’s a half-baked app which should’ve been dead on arrival. So what’s going on? In the App Store there are a few so-so reviews and [...]

I got caught not knowing what’s going on with the first release of Lametard IQ [App Store] and have scrambled to put together a complete app with this new version. The first release has, for still unknown reasons, rocketed in the App Store. It was actually a half-baked app that I wasn’t particularly anxious to [...]

Making pizza at home is easy and fun, and much cheaper than going out to a pizzeria. Since you control the ingredients it’s also healthier. If you’ve never made pizza from scratch before don’t worry. With just a little help it’s easy to get started. You never knew how simple it could be. iPizzeria has [...]

There’s a growing anger among iPhone app developers at the current state of affairs. For many devs the game seems to be rigged and not in their favor. Their hopes of getting established as little software shops, maybe even big shops, are getting thrown about by the realities of the work that must come after [...]

It’s finally starting to hit main street that the App Store review system is busted. PC World has a scathing article here and it’s reprinted on MacWorld here. We’ve pointed this problem out ourselves here. The gist of what’s going on is developers are 5-starring their own apps while 1-starring the competition. Not just one [...]

We’ll now start pushing tweets of our iPhone app reviews out onto Twitter. This will give our readers one more outlet to see what’s going on at the App Store. A tweet will basically be the review title and a link back to the post, if we can get it all into 140 characters. An [...]

Here’s a preview of a new iPhone app we’ve been working on here at Phoxware — Pizzeria. Making pizza at home is easy and fun, and much cheaper than going out to a pizzeria. Since you control the ingredients it’s also healthier. If you’ve never made pizza from scratch before don’t worry. With just a [...]

This week there seems to have been a change in the search algorithm used by iTunes. Previously, you could search for any app name and get a large list of results. From our own experience the app description affected these search results. Keywords were important and if the description contained those keywords then it would [...]