Tag Archive | "app store"
Apple cleans out scamware apps from iTunes
Apple’s iTunes App Store is a billion dollar business, and developers stand to make millions upon millions if they’re able to launch an immensely popular app. And because of that, the appeal in churning out scamware apps that attempt to confuse consumers into purchasing hastily assembled apps that shamelessly rip off already popular apps is [...]
Continue reading...PostSecret app for iOS removed due to user abuse
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Postsecret is one of those websites worth checking in on regularly. In case you haven’t yet had the pleasure of perusing the site, Postsecret provides an avenue for people to anonymously express their inner most secrets and thoughts to the world via postcards that they send in via snail mail, which are subsequently scanned and [...]
Continue reading...Apple goes after AppTrackr in latest effort to curb iOS piracy
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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I’ll be honest. I used to think iOS jailbreaking was on its way out. Sure, it made a whole lot of sense back when there was no official iTunes App Store, and perhaps it even had a place back when Apple ruled the app store with an iron fist, but who is really interested in [...]
Continue reading...Infinity Blade franchise nets over $30 million in revenue
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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This past June, we reported that Infinity Blade from Epic Games, the uber-popular sword and slash’em RPG game for the iOS, had already garnered over $10 million in revenue. Now, a few months later, Epic Games is reporting that revenue from its Infinity Blade franchise (which includes two games) has now topped $30 million, yielding [...]
Continue reading...Fake Siri apps start hitting the Android Marketplace
Monday, January 2, 2012
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With no approval process, the Android Marketplace is lauded by those who place a premium on “openness” and derided by those who place a premium on the protection of intellectual property. Indeed, while Android’s method of running its app store certainly has its positives, there is a downside as well, namely the proliferation of malware [...]
Continue reading...Action Movie FX app is the bomb, literally
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Action Movie FX is one of those iPhone apps that you need to stop reading about and, instead, start downloading immediately. The app, as the name implies, lets users apply Hollywood grade special effects to video that you record. And lest you think this app is some rinky dink effort from a third-rate development studio, [...]
Continue reading...15 apps removed from the iTunes App Store in 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Apple would routinely make the news for rejecting an app for reasons that belied all logic and reason. But these days, Apple has largely gotten their app review process under control and it’s rare that we see headlines about Apple’s draconian app store policies spring up. In conjunction [...]
Continue reading...Squatterware continues to plague Android Marketplace
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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Google and Apple have two diverging philosophies when it comes to their respective app stores. Whereas Google’s Android Market is a free for all with no vetting whatsoever, Apple’s iTunes App Store is carefully vetted to ensure that no malware or otherwise objectionable apps make their way past Apple’s censors. Each approach, naturally, has its [...]
Continue reading...Apple announces Mac App Store downloads reach 100 million
Monday, December 12, 2011
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While most of the discussion surrounding app stores is in the mobile space, Apple’s Mac App Store is quietly becoming a runaway hit. Apple today announced that downloads from the Mac App Store have now topped 100 million. Not too shabby considering its only been available for a year. Apple also noted that its app [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt thinks developer preference for iOS over Android will wane in 6 months
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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There’s no disputing the fact that there are more Android users out there than iOS users. That notwithstanding, developers by and large tend to focus their efforts first (and sometimes exclusively) on Apple’s iOS before turning their attention to Android. But if you ask Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who spoke yesterday at the LeWeb conference, [...]
Continue reading...Tethering app makes appearance in iTunes App Store before getting pulled by Apple
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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For a brief period starting on Monday, iPhone users were able to download an app called iTether for $14.99. As the name implies, the app enabled users to tether their iOS devices to their computers via a USB connection and share their cellular-based Internet connection. It’s a pretty useful feature if you happen to be [...]
Continue reading...Android malware up 472% since July
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: There isn’t much good to say about the way Apple handled app store rejections and submissions in the early days of the iTunes App Store. But if you force yourself to push aside Apple’s former draconian policies for a second, I think we can all agree that Apple’s motivations were at the [...]
Continue reading...Why Steve Jobs was initially opposed to the iTunes App Store
Friday, October 21, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: The iTunes App Store, to a lesser degree than the iPhone, fundamentally changed the way people interact with and use their phones. Whereas mobile apps used to consist of games like rudimentary poker titles, Apple’s app store ushered in a new era of smartphone applications with categories that ran the gamut from [...]
Continue reading...Will Apple unveil iOS App Rentals tomorrow?
Monday, October 3, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Perhaps Apple has more surprises in store for us tomorrow than we realize. After playing around with the recently released iTunes 10.5 beta 9 – the same one that references iPhone 4S – Twitter user @SonnyDickson found some data strings which suggest iOS app rentals may be a possibility. Take a look [...]
Continue reading...Mark Benioff, Salesforce CEO, recounts why he gave Apple the ‘app store’ trademark
Monday, August 29, 2011
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Apple is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Amazon over the latter’s use of the phrase ‘app store’ in connection with the Amazon App Store. Apple’s suit accuses the online retailing giant of both trademark infringement and unfair competition while Amazon asserts that term ‘app store’ is a generic phrase that doesn’t warrant trademark protection. [...]
Continue reading...XKCD hilariously takes on misleading app review ratings [Comic]
Friday, August 12, 2011
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The delightfully nerdy and often hilarious XKCD comic – from the mathematically geared mind of Randall Munroe – recently tackled the misleading nature of app store star ratings. But even more pertinent, we think, is Munroe’s take on the the hilarious and pointless nature of many app reviews one typically stumbles across on iTunes. Nothing [...]
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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