Tag Archives: appstore

Steve Jobs hates the App Store

Aug 1st – 7pm

Photo by David Geller, shared under Creative Commons Ok, Steve Jobs doesn’t hate the App Store. It’s a friggin’ blockbuster success as far as the pundits can see. It’s everything and more than anyone ever thought it could be. It’s the salvation of weak business models. It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin [...]

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OAuth for the iPhone: Pownce.app

Jul 11th – 11am

If you’re one of the lucky folks that’s been able to upgrade your iPhone (and activate it) to the 2.0 firmware, I encourage you to give the Pownce application a try, if only to see a real world example of OAuth in action (that link will open in iTunes). Here’s how it goes in pictures: [...]

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