It looks like after a brief hiatus in front page news, the App Store approval/rejection employees are working hard to reclaim their spot at the top of #facepalm hill. Today’s story involves Read It Later, a handy little app that allows you to bookmark and save articles for offline viewing at a later point. The app is available on iPhone, iPad, desktop computers, and browsers, so you can see just how useful Read It Later is up front. But one feature in particular has...

Reach back in the depths of your cranial cortex to April 26th. It was then that we talked about an upcoming app by developer “Greg”, that allowed you to sync your iPhone/iPod Touch over WiFi. Obviously, a bunch of criticism and shifty eyes followed as such functionality is just so terrible for the App Store. And as we thought, Greg has come forward today to announce that while Apple did reject his extremely useful app (that adds functionality we’ve...

Time and time again we have seen Apple employ utter incompetence, double standards, and plain stupidity when it comes to accept/reject decisions within their approval process. They’ve received their fair share of criticism and at times, warranted a few pats on the back along the way. Sadly, incompetence still runs wild as the recent rejection (and eventually approved) of Pulitzer prize winner Mark Fiore’s comic satire app showed us. But more disturbing than...

The PSP Go to some is the same machine with a slightly redesigned control scheme and inflated price tag. To others it is the way of the future as it drops physical games and ushers in the era of software/downloadable only games. That very same “futuristic” feature may be hurting it in the classic retail environment. First Dutch based retailer “Nedgame” pledged to ignore the PSP Go as they felt it “didn’t offer them the customer any...

While the ongoing drama surrounding the Google Voice/Apple App Store fiasco has been relatively quiet these last couple weeks, that doesn’t mean stuff has died down. Oh no…not in the slightest. Remember how Apple claimed a couple weeks ago that they hadn’t approved the Google Voice app but hadn’t exactly rejected it either and that they were merely studying it? Well, a fair amount of you aren’t stupid or three years old and could clearly see...