Be honest, developers: Have you ever thought about finagling your Apple App Store rankings? Hiring someone who promises to get your app into the top 10 or 20 view spots for a "fee"? You'll want to read Apple's latest developer dispatch before you indulge that dangerous fantasy.
Introducing the Robot App Store, slated to launch in the next couple of weeks. The idea is that you’ll be able to download apps written by approved developers, just like you do for your iPhone or iPad, and they’ll introduce new functions to your robot.
Google’s Android Market just passed the 400,000 application mark last weekend, ringing in the New Year by closing the gap on Apple’s App Store, reports Netherlands-based app store stats tracker Distimo.
Following Google’s announcement last week that the Android Market had reached an impressive 10 billion downloads, Apple has clearly decided that it’s time to remind everyone who did this App Store thing first. The company has announced that not only does it have 500,000 different apps available in its App Store, but that it has reached 18 billion downloads since launching three years ago.
Every once in a while, an app will show up in the iOS App Store that’s not meant to be there, obviously in violation of one rule or another but overlooked by Apple’s approval team. Here are 10 great iPhone apps that Apple banned from existence.
And so it begins.
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices.
Hear that jangling, flushing sound? That’s your bank account, linked to your Apple App Store wallet, draining incrementally faster—or at least the hypothetical sound it’ll make as those once-but-not-future 99-cent apps metamorphose into pricier versions on average.
If you own an Apple iOS product and you’ve not downloaded around 75 apps, you’re really not pulling your weight. Apple has announced that it has pushed out its 15 billionth app since launching the app store in June 2008, just a month after announcing 14 billion downloads at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference.
Mac Rumors is reporting that Apple has quietly relaxed its controversial guidelines regarding in-app subscription pricing for developers, which most directly affects apps by magazine and newspaper publishers.
