Posts tagged with iTunes
Mar 16th, 2012 by flingsoft
Today we are really excited to announce our newest application, Superman Classics for Roku as well as iPhone and iPad. The application features all 17 of the original 1940s Fleischer and Famous Studios animates series and are well regarded as some of the best examples of early rotoscoped animation. Additionally, the first episode was nominated for Academy Award for best Short Subject in 1941, and only lost due to the appearance of a little orange dog named Pluto from Walt Disney.
Superman Classics is available now on the Roku Channel Store (must be logged in) for the one-time fee of $.99 and also available on iPhone/iPad in one application for only $.99.
We hope you like it!
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Aug 15th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are very pleased to announce that our newest app, Classic Westerns, is now available across multiple devices including the iPhone and iPad. Movie Vault users have been asking us for a while to come up with inexpensive pre-sorted versions and everyone loved our last genre specific version, House of Horrors, so we wanted to add to the collection. With this release, we expose a great selection of classic films featuring incredible western actors like John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Tim McCoy, Gene Autry and more!
You can install it now on:
- iPhone ($.99)
- iPad ($1.99)
- Android ($.99)
- Roku ($1.99)
- Windows Phone 7 ($.99) Coming Soon, in review now!!
We hope you enjoy and can’t wait for our upcoming releases!
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Jan 14th, 2011 by flingsoft
Much to our surprise and excitement, the Thursday cut over in the iTunes app store showcased a new category named “Apps for Movie Lovers” and inside was Movie Vault. The iPhone and iPad versions were both named “App Store Essentials” and the response has been great.
In honor of being selected, we are discounting both apps for a limited time. The iPhone version is now $1.99 (down from $2.99) and the iPad version is $2.99 (down from $4.99). Please show your support and pick them up now!!
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Oct 20th, 2010 by flingsoft
After a lot of hard work and some significant re-engineering, we are happy to announce Movie Vault for iPhone. Featuring all the great benefits of the iPad version, but we now also have access to the multitasking feature of the OS. This means you can take a call, read some email, check your texts, and then come back and pick up right where you left off. We kept the same visuals, kept the same simple to use interface, and just made things a little more iPhone friendly.
We are now live in the iTunes App Store and the price is $2.99! The iPad provides a bit of a premium experience, so we decided to bring the price down a bit. Apple has already given us some love by naming us to New & Noteworthy in the iPhone->Entertainment section, so thanks to the editorial team.
We will now get back to updating content, improving on our backend, and keeping things running smoothly. We are also thinking about a holiday version so look for that coming soon!
App Store Link (Only 2.99)
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Sep 13th, 2010 by flingsoft
Tonight we submit Movie Vault 1.1 to the app store. We have gathered all the feedback from users and reviewers and tried to capture as much as possible with this release. Our first and foremost priority was stability. The following will be the release notes for 1.1:
Bug fixes:
- Major improvements to application stability during usage and movie watching.
- Eliminated an issue where you can lose the movie detail window forcing a relaunch.
- Fixes to the player screen to move up the scrubber and remove the textured back ground during playback.
- Improved back-end and increased bandwidth for faster updates and installation.
- Updated movie covers and details (thanks for the e-mails!). AVAILABLE NOW!!!
Features:
- NEW Genre backgrounds for a number of categories have been updated. AVAILABLE NOW!!!
- iPad to VGA out support as well as component out support. This is our first pass at this, so we will keep refining it.
- Improved the location of search by moving it to the title bar. This was a big one for a lot of people.
Those marked with AVAILABLE NOW are actually items you can refresh via the icon in the top right of the interface. These do not require an application update in order to experience.
With this release, we are also using our new CDN in order to speed up movie watching, updates, loading, etc. As more users get on board the faster the more complete the cache will be. This is just a first step in improving performance! We continue to work with Apple and other partners on adding more bandwidth.
Thanks to the community for staying committed to us and to all the great reviewers who have been so kind in their feedback.
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Aug 10th, 2010 by flingsoft
For those that have been following us on Twitter, you have probably noticed that we have a new app in the queue with the App Store review gods. I thought I would take a moment today and give you a little insight on the process and to give you an idea the sense of frustration a lot of developers feel. I am not going to talk about the app itself because well, its a SURPRISE but you may get a few hints as you are reading.
A Word About Our Expectations
Our first two app releases, FotoFling and FotoFling Worldwide took almost 2 months from submission to release. This was primarily because the store was still in its infancy and Apple hadn’t ramped up their review process. Our second and third releases came much much easier, this is due probably both to the limited complexity and timing. Basically, it was easy to review.
This new app is something altogether different. First, it is an iPad app (with the iPhone version following shortly). Second, it makes heavy use of server side interaction and in particular, it uses Apple’s video streaming technology. We didn’t need to use this, but we wanted to support 3G out of the box so we decided to go for it.
We knew this might be a longer process and we were hoping the system had stayed as smooth as our last run through… we were clearly wrong.
The App Submission Process
We first submitted the app on 7/22/2010 and at that point your app is classified as “Waiting for Review”. There isn’t a lot of clarity to the “states” and probably the first shortcoming of the process. Here they are:
- Waiting for Review
- In Review
- Rejected
- Ready for Sale
Seems simple enough right… yes, except things to stick between Waiting and In Review for a very long time.
Our Timeline So Far
- 7/22/2010 6pm - App was submitted to Apple for review. “Waiting for Review”
- 8/2/2010 1pm- App state switches to “In Review”
- 8/2/2010 4pm - App is “Rejected” due to issues with streams validating using Apple’s tool “mediastreamvalidator”.
At this point we investigate the issue and actually talk to the developer at Apple who wrote the tool. Come to find out, there is actually an issue where mediastreamvalidator is returning invalid responses when the mime type for AAC files is not configured correctly. Bottom line, this is not an issue for the app and can be resolved in about 5 seconds. If the Apple Review team understood the technology they were testing, then we could have resolved this over e-mail in under an hour. I explain to them hoping they can retest and got no response, so we were forced to re-submit.
- 8/3/2010 3pm - App (same as original) is re-submitted to Apple for review. Again, we are “Waiting for Review
As of today, we are still Waiting and based on the last timeline they should review it tomorrow 8/11 or early Wed.
How to Solve the Problems
There are some very simple ways to resolve some of the problems with the process:
- Add an additional state to the review process for applications that make use of server-side technologies where re-submission might not be necessary to fix a problem.
- Make resubmissions after rejection a higher priority than new submissions.
- Train the reviewers to think outside of the box of the tools they use, like I said in our case things could have been resolved in the reviewer understood the tool they were using.
- Add reviewers to your team and go Sat/Sun as well. It sounds extreme, but you have a lot of apps coming in.
- Look at the entire app before rejecting so we can handle multiple issues that may have been found so we don’t go through this repeatedly.
- Add a “Notes” area to iTunes Connect so we can see the issues the reviewer documented.
Our Love for Apple
Keep in mind, none of this is a bash of Apple. They have provided us with an incredible opportunity as designers and developers the likes of which we have never seen. We are simply being constructive based on our own experiences in an effort to improve the process. Bottom line, we still love you guys… but sometimes you still frustrate us to no end.
I will keep everyone updated on our process and hopefully have a nice big post about the new app shortly. Thanks for the support!
UPDATE 8/13/2010 10:30AM
We are back “In Review”, updates to follow!
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