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Apple refunds buyers of GameStore app

, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Somehow, an app called GameStore managed to make its way onto the Apple App Store recently where some people apparently purchased the app without bothering to look what it was or at least not worrying about their buck. The app is thought to have been a developer app that slipped into the wild by mistake packed with sample code. GameStore was seemingly some sort of test app that was uploaded for live testing and someone at Apple hit the publish button by mistake. The app was probably approved by the same person that approved stinkers like Shaken Baby. Read The Full Story

iPad hits 3bn app downloads while Android tabs lag at 440m

, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [21]

Apple iPad owners have downloaded over three billion applications since the iOS tablet's launch back in 2010, according to new software stats, far outperforming the download count of Android slates. The figures, collated by ABI Research, suggest 19-percent of all app downloads by Apple users are made by iPad and iPad 2 owners, whereas Android tablet users have downloaded 440m apps to-date. Read The Full Story

Android Market hits 400,000 active app milestone

, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [13]

Android has passed the 400,000 active apps milestone in the Android Market, according to code counters Distimo, with almost 100,000 active publishers contributing to that total. Around two-thirds of the 400k titles on offer are free, perhaps relating to Android users' typically lower spend on paid apps compared to their iOS-using cousins. Read The Full Story

Apple App Store served 5.65M free daily downloads in November

, Dec 29th 2011 Discuss [0]

The App Store has hit a milestone that is very impressive. According to the latest stats from a firm called Fiksu, the Apple App Store served up 5.65 million free app downloads per day in November. That was up from 4.91 million in October. With a typical app coming in at 4MB and 5.65 million downloaded, that is a huge amount of data. Read The Full Story

Ten apps for your brand new iPad 2 : Christmas 2011

, Dec 25th 2011 Discuss [29]

Should you receive or if you’ve already received a brand new iPad or iPad 2 for the holidays here at the tail end of 2011, the first thing you’ll want to do is download a few fabulous and essential apps. What follows is a list your humble narrator has put together for you, the informed reader, detailing what a set of 10 may well be for your instantly impressive apps collection. Everything from high-powered music software to pinball and back down to news reading apps. You’ll be set by the end of this post!

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iMAME hits Apple App Store, will it survive?

, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Apple has a long and bizarre history of approving apps one day and then backtracking the next and pulling the apps from the App Store because they shouldn’t have been approved. Generally, Apple doesn't approve any sort of unofficial gaming emulators for purchase on the App Store instead favoring the official sort like the cool Atari app with tons of retro games inside. Read The Full Story

Apple App Store sees 6x revenue versus Android in top apps

, Dec 21st 2011 Discuss [47]

Apple’s App Store generates six times the revenue of Google’s Android Market for the top 200 grossing titles, app analysis firm Distimo has calculated, while in-app purchases account for 65-percent of revenues for the top grossing 200 Android software. The findings, part of Distimo’s January to November 2011 report, also include news that the Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft’s mobile download store, has overtaken Nokia’s Ovi Store and RIM’s BlackBerry App World for games, and is now the fourth largest app store in that category.

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Apple fixes iOS 3.1.3 App Store block bug

, Dec 21st 2011 Discuss [1]

Apple has quietly fixed the App Store issue preventing iPhone and iPod touch owners running iOS 3.1.3 from properly browsing the store and downloading new titles. Reported by users earlier this week, who were able to update existing apps on their devices but not download new ones, the fault has been apparently corrected by Apple according to new support forum posts. Read The Full Story

EA Games $0.99 App Store sale begins

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [4]

EA Games has kicked off its App Store games sale, offering dozens of iPhone and iPad apps for under a dollar as the company prepares for the holiday season. Titles in the promotion (which has started with a £0.69 sale in the UK, and is expected to spread to the US imminently) include FIFA 11, Mirror’s Edge and Transformers: Dark of the Moon HD on the iPad, as well as Need for Speed Undercover, SimCity Deluxe and Ultimate Mortal Kombat on the iPhone. Check out the full list after the cut.

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iPhone and iPod touch iOS 3.1.3 users blocked from App Store

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [5]

iPhone and iPod touch users running older versions of iOS have found themselves blocked from downloading software from Apple's App Store, owner complaints have revealed, with no official fix in sight. The issue, widely reported in Apple's support forums, affects devices running iOS 3.1.3 and leaves them unable to grab free or paid apps, rate software, view official screenshots or send details to others using the "tell a friend" option. Read The Full Story

Last-minute App Store rush ahead of holiday lockdown

, Dec 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

The yearly race for inclusion in the iOS App Store before Apple's holiday lock-down is on, with iPhone and iPad developers desperate to get their titles in front of Christmas recipients of new gadgets. The eight-day downtime kicks of on Thursday 22 this year, the NYTimes reports, with not only new submissions for App Store inclusion being put on ice until staff return, but the download charts as well. Getting your app on one of those charts - and among the first to be considered by new iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners - can mean big money returns. Read The Full Story

Apple fake license app yank prompts coder controversy

, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [2]

Apple has ignited another app yank controversy, with the creators of a fake driver's license app dismissing concerns that it could be used to produce real fake IDs as rash and the decision to pull it from the App Store as "premature." The contentious software, "Driver License", is designed to help market a test preparation kit produced by DriversEd.com, also available through the App Store, and gained notoriety when US Senator Bob Casey and the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License contacted Apple to complain that the software could be used to falsify personal documents. Read The Full Story
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