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		<title>Apple May Purge Some App-Finding Apps, but Don&#8217;t Panic</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/10/apple-may-purge-app-finding-apps-but-dont-panic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Apple getting ready to crack down on iOS apps that help you find other apps? That&#8217;s the word going around in the tech world, at least, after Apple booted AppGratis from its store. AppGratis is kind of like a Groupon for iPhone and iPad apps. The folks behind AppGratis work with other softwaremakers to reduce their prices or give their apps away. AppGratis then sends out a daily notification to its users, telling them about the deals. As All Things Digital reports, AppGratis violates a couple of Apple&#8217;s developer guidelines. One: &#8220;Apps that display apps other than your own for purchase or promotion in a manner similar to or confusing with the App Store will be rejected.&#8221; Two: &#8220;Apps cannot use push notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind.&#8221; The removal of AppGratis is apparently just the start, as Apple may now be looking to purge other apps that serve a similar purpose. Although Apple&#8217;s enforcement of the above policies has been inconsistent before, that&#8217;s about to change, All Things D&#8217;s unnamed sources claim. This could be an issue for frugal shoppers. Apple&#8217;s own store doesn&#8217;t have a built-in way to find temporary sales or promotions. Apps like AppGratis provide a valuable service by pointing you to deals you might otherwise miss. Apple&#8217;s problem, according to All Things D, is that these apps can be confusing if they look and behave too much like the App Store. And in the case of AppGratis, which organizes its own promotions, it encourages developers to pay their way to more downloads, which in turn sends them higher up the App Store&#8217;s own charts. I don&#8217;t entirely buy those explanations. For one thing, users aren&#8217;t confused that easily by apps with duplicate functionality. They certainly knew the difference between Google Maps and Apple Maps, and I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;d know the difference between the App Store and an app whose primary purpose is to hunt down good deals. As for gaming the App Store charts, that already happens without the assistance<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159906&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple’s Wrongheaded, Dangerous Censorship of Satirical Sweatshop for iPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/22/apples-wrongheaded-dangerous-censorship-of-satirical-sweatshop-for-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of Apple&#8216;s App Store approval guidelines &#8212; Apple playing judge, jury and bouncer &#8212; make sense. There&#8217;s the one about apps that crash outright, the one about apps not performing as advertised, the one about apps that try to charge you for push notifications, or the one about apps that target minors for data collection. Functionality, privacy, your pocketbook &#8212; who&#8217;s going to argue with safeguarding those? And yet there&#8217;s also some profound weirdness here, in particular Cupertino&#8217;s folksy &#8220;just lookin&#8217; out for you&#8221; preamble, whose second paragraph &#8212; often cited, since appearing in 2010, for its cultural backwardness &#8212; reads (in part): We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store. It&#8217;s a very strange way to convey what&#8217;s really a simpler point. It&#8217;s also hilariously wrongheaded if you&#8217;ve thought even superficially about how different mediums, especially &#8220;apps&#8221; like video games, work. One thing I doubt anyone&#8217;s going to dispute, is that it&#8217;s a euphemistic way of saying &#8220;We don&#8217;t care what you think, we&#8217;ll do what we like &#8212; our store, our rules.&#8221; Stores have always had rules and the right to enforce them. Restaurants, for instance, sometimes sport signs like &#8220;No shirt, no shoes, no service&#8221; &#8212; I suspect most appreciate the latter (save, I suppose, for nudists, who have my sympathies). And I&#8217;ve seen all sorts of variants on the adage &#8220;We reserve the right to refuse service&#8221; &#8212; again, generally a good thing when it involves removing the drunk and belligerent. But stores have also carried signs like &#8220;We cater to white trade only.&#8221; A storekeeper&#8217;s prerogative isn&#8217;t unassailable. Sometimes the outlets through which we purchase goods or services &#8212; traditional or digital &#8212; get the rules badly wrong, and sometimes only time and reflection allow us<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Apple&#8217;s Dropbox-Related App Rejection Process Getting Ridiculous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. It started when a developer, whose Cambox photography app uses Dropbox, posted a note to Dropbox&#8217;s message board claiming the app had been rejected by Apple. The reason for the rejection: &#8220;&#8230;the fact that if the user does not have Dropbox application installed then the linking authorization is done through Safari,&#8221; wrote the developer, noting that this occurs because of a mechanism present in the latest Dropbox API. (LIST: 50 Best iPhone Apps 2012) &#8220;Once the user is in Safari it is possible for the user to click &#8216;Desktop version&#8217; and navigate to a place on Dropbox site where it is possible to purchase additional space,&#8221; the developer continues, referencing a controversial aspect of Apple&#8217;s App Store terms of use, whereby circumventing the App Store to sell directly to users &#8212; say an in-app link that bypasses the App Store and takes users direct to a vendor&#8217;s website wares &#8212; is verboten. The developer then suggests Dropbox remove its external linking mechanic, except where it&#8217;s invoked for creating a new Dropbox account (the developer calls the whole thing &#8220;stupid,&#8221; but says it&#8217;s that, or resort to using the older API). A second developer then posted one of Apple&#8217;s actual rejection notes, which reads: We found that your app provides access to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. Specifically, your app enables to user to create accounts with Dropbox and Google. At first blush, Apple seems to be within its App Store Review Guidelines, specifically the part where the guidelines say &#8220;Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected.&#8221; But it&#8217;s the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130411&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google: Android Apps Have Tripled to Nearly Half a Million Since Last Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/27/google-android-apps-have-tripled-to-nearly-half-a-million-since-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=120587&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple to Developers: App Store Placement Scams May Get You Expelled</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/07/apple-to-developers-app-store-placement-scams-may-get-you-expelled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=117839&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robots Get Their Own App Store</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/04/robots-get-their-own-app-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=112511&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closing on Half a Million: Google&#8217;s Android App Store Turns 400,000</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/04/closing-on-half-a-million-googles-android-app-store-turns-400000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=112574&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Awesome iPhone Apps You Can&#8217;t Get Anymore</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/02/10-awesome-iphone-apps-you-cant-get-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Amazon, Walmart and Others Build Web Apps to Sidestep Apple Rules</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/10/amazon-walmart-and-others-build-web-apps-to-sidestep-apple-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so it begins. Let&#8217;s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the &#8220;iPhone&#8221; and with it, an &#8220;innovative new way to create applications&#8221; for the device. The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to &#8220;create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone&#8221;—it was just called &#8220;iPhone&#8221; back then, not &#8220;the iPhone.&#8221; Basically, if you wanted to make an app, you built it on the web. (MORE: Adobe Helps Turn Flash into HTML5, Targets Apple Devices) About a year later, the actual App Store was launched and developers could build applications that lived on the phone itself instead of on the web. Web-based apps hadn&#8217;t been quite as slick as promised, and having a central repository like the App Store gave Apple a little more control over which apps ran on the iPhone and, more importantly, a 30% cut of any app sold. Fast forward to the current day and Apple has a bit of a problem on its hands. As it turns out, certain web-based apps can actually perform well enough that app makers don&#8217;t need to build them for Apple&#8217;s App Store any more. And app makers that sell content from inside their apps don&#8217;t want to play by Apple&#8217;s new-ish rules stating that each piece of content sold within an app commands a 30% cut to Apple—and linking to an outside website to sell content from within the apps is a no-no. (MORE: Apple Tightens App Store Rules on In-App Purchases) Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re Amazon and you&#8217;ve been selling e-books for the past couple years at around $10 a pop. That&#8217;s your pricing model. And all of a sudden, the books you sell on the apps that you&#8217;ve developed for some of the most popular mobile devices around—iPhone and iPad—will now see a 30% cut go right to Apple. That&#8217;s not going to work for you, especially considering that Apple sells<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93351&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon, B&amp;N, Google, WSJ Pull &#8216;Purchasing&#8217; from iOS Apps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/25/amazon-bn-google-wsj-pull-purchasing-from-ios-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Amazon, Barnes &#38; Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they&#8217;ve been forced to comply with Apple&#8217;s controversial App Store rules. What&#8217;s more, Google&#8217;s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely. Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, when Apple declared that App Store vendors couldn&#8217;t provide in-app links to out-of-app content, say a link to the vendor&#8217;s product page? At the time, Apple&#8217;s policy seemed draconian because of a requirement that vendors sell their apps at the App Store price (or less) if offered elsewhere, say on the vendor&#8217;s official product page. The backlash apparently got through to Cupertino: Apple backed off the sell-for-the-same-price requirement last month, allowing vendors to do as they pleased away from the App Store. But the &#8220;no links to external purchase sites&#8221; requirement remained. (PHOTOS: The Long, Extraordinary Career of Steve Jobs) Ergo today&#8217;s app-functionality switch-e-roo. As expected, some vendors are opting out of Apple&#8217;s &#8220;we&#8217;ll take 30% of your app&#8217;s App Store sales, thank you&#8221; requirement by disabling purchasing options. And as noted up top, in some cases they&#8217;re simply disappearing from the store entirely. I just checked, and sure enough, Google&#8217;s app is history, or at least I couldn&#8217;t find it in an App Store search on the company&#8217;s name. Google&#8217;s declined comment, so it&#8217;s possibly a coincidence, but I doubt it. Were I running the Barnes &#38; Noble and WSJ apps, no doubt they&#8217;d be prompting me for updates to revoke purchasing privileges, too. A point of clarification: I actually have Amazon&#8217;s official iOS app on my iPhone, and I&#8217;m still able to buy stuff with it. There&#8217;s nothing sitting in my &#8220;update app&#8221; queue. And when I deleted the app and re-downloaded it, just to be sure, the &#8220;buy&#8221; option remained. Amazon&#8217;s button removal is thus limited (so far) to its Kindle app. Tapping &#8220;Kindle Store&#8221; from within that app previously conjured the iOS version of Safari and linked to Amazon&#8217;s mobile Kindle purchase<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91623&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Opens New App Store for Businesses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/apple-opens-new-app-store-for-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The Volume Purchase store was announced a couple of weeks ago, but finally went live yesterday alongside the launch of the Lion OS and various bits of new hardware. (MORE: Apple Rolls Out OS X Lion, Faster MacBook Airs, Kills MacBook) So now, if you&#8217;re in charge of IT in any organization, you can sign up for a special Apple ID. It has to have a unique email address assigned to it, but you&#8217;re the IT guy, right? You can set one up. Logged in with your ID, you&#8217;ll see a different view of the App Store. One that lets you find apps, then say exactly how many copies of each one you want to buy. There are no discounts for bulk: If an app costs $2.99, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll pay for each and every copy. That&#8217;s good news for the developers, who rely on getting their cut from every sale. And it&#8217;s good news for Apple, who get a fair bit from their cut, too. Another aspect to the business store is custom B2B apps designed for selling between businesses. Companies can now commission developers to make bespoke apps, then ask their partners to download via the Volume Purchase store. It&#8217;s still possible to make apps for in-house use without having to use the store, too. If you wanted proof that Apple was making serious inroads into corporate computing, this is it. It&#8217;s been via iPhones, and particularly iPads, that business types have discovered Apple products they can fall in love with. MORE: MacBook Air Review &#8211; Thin, Light, and Utterly Mainstream<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91070&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple App Store Prices to Climb as Downloads Surge</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/apple-app-store-prices-to-climb-as-downloads-surge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear that jangling, flushing sound? That&#8217;s your bank account, linked to your Apple App Store wallet, draining incrementally faster—or at least the hypothetical sound it&#8217;ll make as those once-but-not-future 99-cent apps metamorphose into pricier versions on average. That&#8217;s what Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster found, anyway, writing that as iOS App Store downloads (that&#8217;s iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices) grow by a whopping 61%, so will the average prices for apps, expected to rise 14% in 2011. Plan on that trend continuing, too, says Munster. (PHOTOS: Gadgets: Then and Now) Maybe that sounds obvious, but the average app price increase is actually a rebound from an 18% price decline in 2010. Munster&#8217;s numbers coincide with Apple&#8217;s announcement last week that upwards of 15 billion applications have so far been downloaded by over 200 million iOS users. Using Apple&#8217;s data, Munster estimates 82% of App Store apps are free, while 18% are paid. What&#8217;s the upsurge equal in average sales terms? $1.44 per iPhone app, says Munster (the top 50 iPhone apps sell for an average of $1.66). But that&#8217;s trifling compared to the increase in iPad-exclusive app prices, expected to leap 36% year-on-year to reach an average of $6.32. And Apple looks to rake it in by year&#8217;s close, with the average iOS user estimated to download an average of 83 apps in 2011, an upswing from 51 apps in 2010. Count that in daily iOS-related downloads and you get over 32 million apps a day, or—wait for it—triple what users are downloading in daily iTunes songs. Don&#8217;t panic over pennies, iPhone buffs: Munster says the predicted price hike is basically due to the increase in iPad sales, whose pricier apps are pulling the overall App Store average up. &#8220;Smartphone users are showing an increasing appetite to use apps to add features to their phones,&#8221; adds Munster in his research note, noting that &#8220;iOS has the leading app ecosystem.&#8221; MORE: Apple&#8217;s App Store Reaches Its 15 Billionth Download Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89665&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s App Store Reaches Its 15 Billionth Download</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/07/apples-app-store-reaches-its-15-billionth-download/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own an Apple iOS product and you&#8217;ve not downloaded around 75 apps, you&#8217;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&#8217;s Conference. With more than 200 million iOS products in use worldwide &#8211; combining iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch &#8211; that works out at an average of 75 apps per device. Although Apple hasn&#8217;t released data on how many of those 15 billion apps were free, the company says that it has paid more than $2.5 billion in commission to developers to date. There are currently around 425,000 apps available in the App Store, according to Apple. Clearly, as someone who has little more than a handful on my iPhone, I really need to sample a few more. More: The iPhone 6 May Be Completely Cord Free, Charge Wirelessly Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89348&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Eases Pricing Rules for Newspaper and Magazine Apps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/09/apple-eases-pricing-rules-for-newspaper-and-magazine-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Apple’s policy had required in-app subscriptions to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” which proved problematic for publishers because it ensured that the App Store would have the lowest possible subscription price – putting all the power in the hands of almighty Apple. Enforcement of these policies was set to go into effect June 30th, until Apple quietly instituted a change that miraculously contains no pricing guidelines at all. Here’s how section 11.13 used to read (emphasis added): 11.13 Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app, for which Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues, provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app. This applies to both purchased content and subscriptions. And here’s how the new copy obtained by Mac Rumors reads (section 11.14, formerly 11.13) 11.14 Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app. That&#8217;s huge news for newspapers and magazines, because now publishers can charge premiums to cover the 30% cut that Apple gets for in-app subscriptions, while offering the outside deals they need to acquire and maintain readership. The New York Times also points out that Apple is notoriously protective of valuable customer data gained when subscriptions are purchased through the App Store. Apple came under fire when it instituted the new policy back in May, in which indie app developers like<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=85970&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Has Approved 500,000 Mobile Apps (1,123 Fart Apps)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/24/apple-has-approved-500000-mobile-apps-1123-fart-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 13:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has just cleared the half-billion mark* for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps available in the app store. Whoa, whoa, whoa—asterisk?! That&#8217;s half a billion apps that Apple has approved since the App Store launched back in July of 2008, though, as Fortune points out, &#8220;Through attrition, replacement and withdrawal, [the] number of apps currently available for download is 20% lower, around 400,000.&#8221; And the inevitable question arises: How many of those are fart apps? I took the liberty of painstakingly counting the number of apps returned when searching for &#8220;fart&#8221; on an iPod Touch, and the result is 1,123. That&#8217;s not including iPhone- and iPad-specific fart apps either, mind you. Therein lies the rub (for any app store). How many of its total number of available apps are actually good apps. That&#8217;s subjective, of course. You may love Tub Tooter or iSantaFarted—one replicates what farts sound like in a bathtub; the other is, well, pretty straightforward. Numbers are not subjective, therefore companies that run app stores use numbers to attempt to portray the subjective goodness of their app stores. And it may be true that out of 500,000 apps, there are bound to be some winners in there. Google&#8217;s Android Market, by comparison, reportedly contains upwards of 300,000 apps. It&#8217;s lagging behind Apple in fart apps, though, with fewer than 350 available, according to search results. On a non-flatulent note, there&#8217;s a big infographic over at Facebook.com/500kapps that breaks down the Apple numbers quite nicely. Some of the more interesting factoids: - There are over 85,000 unique Apple mobile developers - 37% of Apple mobile apps are free - The average price for paid apps is $3.64 - Angry Birds is the most popular application of all time - If you were to buy every currently-live, for-pay app, you&#8217;d spend almost $900,000 More on TIME.com: Apple to Amazon: &#8216;App Store&#8217; Isn&#8217;t Generic, and You&#8217;re No App Store Now the Army Wants an App Store Amazon&#8217;s Latest Weapon Against Apple in &#8216;App Store&#8217; Lawsuit? Steve Jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83915&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple to Amazon: &#8216;App Store&#8217; Isn’t Generic, and You&#8217;re No App Store</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/20/apple-to-amazon-%e2%80%98app-store%e2%80%99-isn%e2%80%99t-generic-and-you%e2%80%99re-no-app-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silly Amazon, “App Store” isn’t a generic term, and besides, you’re no App Store—so said Apple in a filing yesterday to a California federal court. Apple’s squaring off with Amazon over the latter’s use of the phrase “Appstore” (one word, no spaces) on its Android apps page. In fact Cupertino sued the mega e-tailer in March, claiming &#8220;Amazon has begun improperly using Apple&#8217;s App Store mark in connection with Amazon&#8217;s mobile-software developer program.&#8221; Amazon’s response? Silly Apple, “app store” is just generic-speak for a store that sells apps. Waving off Apple’s lawsuit, Amazon wrote “the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps, such as the app stores operated by Amazon and Apple.” It then cited the American Dialect Society as recently voting “apps” its 2010 “Word of the Year,” noting the word “has been around for ages.” “Indeed, the words ‘app store’ are commonly used among many businesses competing in the app store market,” said Amazon in its April counterclaim. Apple’s response-to-the-response in yesterday&#8217;s filing: “Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.&#8221; I know, sounds a little loco to me, too—torturing semantics while claiming to own a term simply because you&#8217;ve been the most broadly successful at plying it. Then again, if you can trademark the generic name for a type of fruit, what can’t you trademark? Show of hands: does “app store” mean Apple App Store to you? Or does it mean “a store for apps,” irrespective of platform or publisher?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83350&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An &#8216;Onlion&#8217; Release for Apple&#8217;s Next OS</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/05/an-onlion-release-for-apples-next-os/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the letters &#8220;day&#8221; appear in the name of the day, there must be a fresh Apple rumor to report &#8211; and goodness me, so there is. Today&#8217;s Apple speculation is that iSteve and the gang will release the next version of OS X as a download via their App Store. That &#8220;Duh&#8221; sound you can hear is the world going &#8220;Duh&#8221;. Of course OS X 10.7 Lion will be on the App Store. The developer preview was released that way, and Apple is not the sort of company to backtrack into the past. When the first iMac came out, bristling with shiny new USB ports, that was it: USB was the new standard, and Apple stuck with it from then on. That&#8217;s how Apple rolls. Also, there are huge benefits to online distribution. The App Store can check that your computer meets Lion&#8217;s minimum required specs. It can tie your purchase of Lion to your Apple ID, so Apple instantly knows who is running Lion and who isn&#8217;t (and how many Lion owners there are). There&#8217;s no need to manufacture and distribute CDs. Everything is so much faster and more efficient. Some of Apple&#8217;s computers &#8211; and, I&#8217;d be willing to bet, pretty soon all of them &#8211; don&#8217;t even have optical disk drives. Online distribution isn&#8217;t just the way forward, it&#8217;s the only way forward. (Via Apple Insider)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80640&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now the Army Wants an App Store</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/28/now-the-army-wants-an-app-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt Steve Jobs expected a lot of things when he launched the first iPod back in 2001, but the Army setting up its own App Store was probably not one of them. Yes, the Army. An App Store. Because soldiers need apps too. It&#8217;s called Army Marketplace, and the idea is that it serves two purposes: distributing software around a huge organization, and serving providing a discussion forum where soldiers can describe the kind of software they need, and coders can quickly respond. So far it&#8217;s just a prototype, an idea that could be rolled out if it gets the OK from the powers that be. One hurdle they&#8217;ve yet to overcome is settling on a device and an operating system considered secure enough for use with sensitive military information. Lt. Col. Gregory Motes told Wired&#8217;s Danger Room blog: &#8220;The current process of software creation [in the Army] is a very long and arduous process. That&#8217;s how we do things. But app development needs to be done quickly.&#8221; If App Stores are good for the Army, where might we see them popping up next? Tax apps for the IRS? Apps for White House interns? Apps for internal use inside huge companies, like, for example, Apple Inc? No, wait a minute. (Via Danger Room)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79430&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s Latest Weapon Against Apple in &#8216;App Store&#8217; Lawsuit? Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/26/amazons-latest-weapon-against-apple-in-app-store-lawsuit-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing trademark war over the rights to the term &#8220;app store&#8221; just had another interesting turn. This time Amazon&#8217;s assertion of the phrase&#8217;s genericness cites a few key phrases used by Steve Jobs himself in a recent conference call. GeekWire is reporting that the Seattle-based retailer has asked that Apple&#8217;s complaint be thrown out on the basis that &#8220;app store&#8221; is actually a generic term, pointing out that the Apple figurehead used the wording plainly during the company&#8217;s quarterly call. Here&#8217;s what Jobs said (the bold is mine): In addition to Google&#8217;s own app marketplace, Amazon, Verizon and Vodafone have all announced that they are creating their own app stores for Android. So there will be at least four app stores on Android, which customers must search among to find the app they want and developers will need to work with to distribute their apps and get paid. Then there&#8217;s this: Contrast this with Apple&#8217;s integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone. Touché, Amazon. The genericness of the term has been the subject of several debates and filings involving a number of parties. Recently, Apple also dropped its attempts to trademark the word &#8220;Pod&#8221; with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, in what has been a staling back-and-forth since the original filing back in 2004. The implications of the court&#8217;s ruling over the term&#8217;s genericness will have huge implications for other app sellers, including Microsoft&#8217;s coming Windows app store, among others. More on TIME.com: Hey, Google: Ditch the Android OS dogfighting app Steve Jobs: &#8220;We don&#8217;t track anyone.&#8221; Did Apple fiddle with their &#8220;top apps&#8221; rankings?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79030&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Apple Just Fiddle With ‘Top App’ Ranking?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/19/did-apple-just-fiddle-with-%e2%80%98top-app%e2%80%99-ranking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider this speculative, but it sounds like Apple may have twiddled a key App Store ranking algorithm to favor “usage” over “total downloads.” If true, the move could be upending for developers uses to banking raw download figures over the actual time spent using or playing with an app. Word is several iOS developers saw their apps undergo a tectonic rankings shift last week, leading some to suspect Apple&#8217;s invisible hand on the wheel. Inside Mobile Apps broke the story, speculating the &#8220;new weights&#8221; have to do with measuring &#8220;active usage&#8221; and shifting the emphasis away from simple download counts. “We’ve been noticing changes in the Top Free rankings for at least three days now,” Flurry VP of marketing Peter Farago told the site. &#8220;From our point of view, Apple is absolutely considering more than just downloads, which we believe is the right direction to go in to measure the true popularity of an app.&#8221; So what&#8217;s actually changed? See for yourself, if you have an iPhone (just bring up &#8216;Top Free&#8217; apps, under the App Store&#8217;s &#8216;Top 25&#8242; category). It looks like Facebook&#8217;s mobile app suddenly leapt to top 10 standing, after hanging between 10th and 20th place the past 18 months. Inside Mobile reasons that&#8217;s because the app has high daily usage (it cites AppData&#8217;s figure claiming 39.5 million daily users) and that this indicates Apple&#8217;s new algorithm favors &#8220;usage&#8221; over &#8220;downloads.&#8221; Other apps experiencing a jump include Netflix (up to 19th from between 30th and 50th), Pandora (up to 6th from in the 20s, though as of this post, it&#8217;s listing 22nd), and Glu Mobile (up to an astonishing 32nd place after wallowing between 75th and 100th). What&#8217;s that mean for you and me? If IM&#8217;s speculation proves accurate, only that we&#8217;ll have a better sense of what people are actually using (and thereby enjoying or preferring) and not just their download clicks. For developers accustomed to profiting based on clicks alone, it&#8217;s a reminder that getting customers to stick around is just as important as nudging<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=77606&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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