Yep, they’re here.
I’ve complained before about the length of time in getting apps and their updates approved, but Apple have really impressed in these last couple of rounds. Both took just under 2 weeks, which is pretty good considering the workload they must be under.
If you haven’t tried Lingopal out before then you can now, [...]
After sales dropped right off in Japan following the OS 3.0 debacle, I was nervous whether we would ever be able to recover there. That #3 spot we held for so long was highly cherished.
Then something happened a couple of days ago. Our sales in Japan jumped over 1000% and we are now at #2. [...]
Apple is annoying me.
By now everyone who has an iPhone, and plenty of others who don’t, know two things:
1) The new operating system for iPhones, OS 3.0 has been released
2) The new version of the iPhone has also been released (it runs OS 3.0).
We tested Lingopal on a beta version of OS 3.0 and it [...]
I guess it’s a resources thing.
Apple has something like 88 iTunes stores right now, some for countries which are well off the beaten track. But they only offer localisation for six non-speaking languages: German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese.
We’ve done translations for all of these, but with varied results. Here’s the Japanese translation in [...]