Apple rejecting apps that use online storage repository Dropbox? The nerve! How could they? Why would they? Another nefarious Cupertino ploy to harangue developers and take over the world? Not exactly, though the company is rejecting apps that use Dropbox for reasons it claims violate its App Store terms of use.
Google has something to boast about at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year, it used the event to announce that its Android Market had accrued an impressive 150,000 apps. Today, the company announced that the number has tripled.
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.
