All the stories tagged with: app store
Apple warns developers about manipulating App Store chart rankings
02/07/2012, If you’re a developer who wants to continue developing apps for Apple’s App Store, it looks like you’re going to have to play by the rules or risk your development license being revoked. Apple has recently posted a message to [...]
Android app store holds banned apps
01/20/2012, Remember the Prohibition? Somehow or rather, something that is banned seems to be more “desirable” to us, perhaps because there is a naughty factor attached to it. Android developer Kousik Dutta must have felt a tug on his heart to [...]
Google Translate iOS app makes jump to the iPad
01/05/2012, The Google Translate app on the iOS platform was previously restricted just to iPhone and iPod touch owners, as the iPad community were left out in the cold. Good news then (who says that Christmas is the only day in [...]
Apple refunds GameStore app purchases
01/04/2012, Apple will be handing out refunds to those who picked up the rather strange GameStore app which actually popped up last year – or over the weekend (same difference) at the App Store, which makes perfect sense actually. After all, [...]
One billion app download barrier broken over the holiday week
01/02/2012, ‘Tis indeed the season to be jolly, at least according to the figures shown for the time period of Christmas Day all the way to New Year’s Day, where over a billion apps were downloaded for both iOS and Android-powered [...]
Apple GameStore app released by accident
01/02/2012, There is a saying, “You cannot see an accident coming”, but sometimes, accidents can be prevented if one is careful enough. It seems that one of Apple’s internal testing applications has sneaked its way into the iOS App Store – [...]
iOS 3.1.3 devices makes up with App Store
12/20/2011, It seems that the unwarranted “Cold War” between iOS 3.1.3 powered devices and the App Store is now over – as Apple has ensured that things have gone back to normal, and all the planets are aligned together. Yes sir, [...]
App Store closes door to iOS 3.1.3 users
12/20/2011, If you happen to own an iPhone or iPod touch that is still running on iOS 3.1.3, you would have realized by now that since the 16th of this month, you would have been unable to download iOS applications directly [...]
Malicious app on App Store pulled
11/09/2011, Apple is famous for their closed ecosystem, and this is a double edged sword really. As with just about anything in life, there is always a good and bad side to it, and the presence of iOS devices as well [...]
Google Voice removed from Apple App Store after iOS 5 crash
10/17/2011, It seems that Google Voice and iOS 5 do not play nice with each other, after numerous customers who made the jump to iOS 5 (I wonder how many of the 20 million were affected)made complaints about Google Voice crashing. [...]
Microsoft App Store Approach for Windows 8 Metro Apps
09/16/2011, It’s hard to deny that the (Apple) App Store is not a huge success, and it looks like Microsoft is taking a page from Apple’s book, as it announced at the BUILD conference this week that Windows 8 will have [...]
Windows 8 app store set to open doors
09/13/2011, Microsoft knows that it does not hurt to follow a business model of another company if it proved to be successful, and certainly no one would want to dispute the effectiveness of the App Store or iTunes from Apple. Well, [...]
Tencent App Center: a new Android app store from China
09/07/2011, If you thought that one app store was more than enough for Android users to use, it looks like there’s going to be one more to add to the list – well if you’re living in China. It has been [...]
