Anyway, I’d recommend buying it if you’re thinking about getting into iPhone programming.

Apple first started reviewing the app a week ago, after just 5 days of being “waiting for review” (I can tell this from server logs because the app is designed around a web services – http://www.ibeermap.co.uk/). It then took over a week for Apple to come back and tell me that the app had been rejected because they thought the app needed a 17+ rating. It currently is in the app store at a 12+ rating for “mild alcohol references” but they thought it needed “strong alcohol references”.

So, my questions are thus:

1. Why did they feel the need for the sudden change in rating?
2. Why did I have to RESUBMIT the app even though the problem was with the rating and not the actual app

ldr 12-bit displacement out of range

Eventually I found that quitting XCode, deleting the build folder in the project then reopening XCode and re-building made everything work again.

Just putting here in case anyone else has similar issues!

UPDATE: Anyone else with this problem, please file a bug report with Apple (http://bugreport.apple.com/) because if lots of people file a bug then hopefully they’ll do something about it.

It seemed to get good feedback and along side other apps such as CurryFinder it was probably one of the most fun apps being showcased. I really enjoyed telling people about it and I hope that people will have downloaded and started using the app from seeing my presentation!

Below is a little photo of me presenting!

In other news I currently have 5, yes FIVE, apps in review with Apple. I’ve been quite busy over the past couple of weeks as I’ve been between jobs. I’ve released updates to 4 apps (another update to Subnet Calc Pro off the back of comments from users) and 1 completely new app which will be interesting for anyone out there who uses a Zen Internet broadband connection!

I’m continually impressed by Apple’s ability to keep the iPhone platform going so strong. It would be interesting to try doing it full time, but I don’t want to take that risk at the moment as I can’t guarantee I’d have enough money coming in and I actually am very much looking forward to starting my new job on Monday!

UPDATE:
Well I reached it! And I have now almost reached my next target! I also have released the app for Zen broadband customers, it’s called ZeBbUs (Zen Broadband Usage) and it lets you know how much of your Zen broadband plan you have used this month.

When using UIImagePickerController, and the imagePickerController:didFinishPickingImage:editingInfo: delegate method gets called, I find that sometimes the returned image is nil, which depending on what you do with the image will cause a crash or at least not do what you expected. It seems to be a memory issue because when you reboot the iPhone and try again, it works and returns the image correctly. Also, I’ve not have the problem on iPhone 3G S which has more RAM, indicating again to a memory issue.

I’m wondering it the new imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo: delegate method will work – as the other has been deprecated in 3.0 anyway.

But has anyone else had, and fixed, this problem?

Before the iPhone event today, my thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0 were that it would be a worthwhile upgrade and I was excited to see what new features Apple had in store (you can ask anyone at my work and they’ll say how excited I was!). But it turned out that Apple went far above and beyond what I had expected…

At the start of the event they showed a few pretty graphs but one graphic in particular caught my eye:

To me, this screamed that there would be copy & paste (scissors icon) and some sort of tethering between devices (two iPhones icon). The other icon which interested me was the one right below the ‘D’ – the universal connector icon. Of course, we now know what all those icons turned out to be and it all makes sense.

I particularly liked the LifeScan presentation about their glucose monitoring tool for the iPhone. This is an idea for an application which I had already had (honestly!) but without hardware support it renders it a little cumbersome. Of course with 3.0 and hardware integration, these sort of apps will be much more common.

Copy & paste to me isn’t a major one and I don’t really mind that it’s there. It might be useful I suppose. I think it’s all been a lot of hype though.

The developer API advances which most excite me are:

• Push notifications
• Ability to charge for app add-ons and subscription services
• Hardware integration with apps

I also am pleased that Apple have generally tidied up the operating system and improved their own apps. Most of note is the syncing of data with iTunes and the Notes application. Could this be the start of syncing of developer apps as well?

Most importantly, Apple has released the iPhone 3.0 Beta TODAY – thanks for that Apple!

And one more thank-you to Apple for being such an amazing technology company – even in the current economic climate you continue to impress and evolve at a rapid rate.

UPDATE: I’ve just found out that they added CoreData as well! OK, that has to be my favourite feature of 3.0. Well done Apple!

Please let me know any feedback which you might have.