All the stories tagged with app store
Apple opens AppStore Twitter account
01/24/2011, We all know that Apple recently hit the 10 billion app download mark, and now they’ve set up a Twitter account for the App Store. It is uncertain if the two events are related, but we do know that the [...]
Viber updated to v1.1, adds call quality indicator
01/24/2011, Viber is a very useful iPhone app for making free calls to friends on the same service using a data connection. Of course, no service is perfect and sometimes you’re limited by the quality of the data connection that you’re [...]
$10,000 winning call from Apple hung up by lady
01/23/2011, You know how skeptical the world is when a lady actually hung up when an Apple rep called her to tell her that she was the winner of a $10,000 gift card simply by virtue of her downloading the 10 [...]
10 billion App Store downloads and still counting
01/23/2011, Well, that didn’t take too long, did it? It is slightly more than a week since Apple posted about their 10 billion App Store download counter, and in that time period, this milestone was achieved. To get a visual idea [...]
iDOS returns to the App Store
01/20/2011, For those of you who missed out on purchasing iDOS when it was released on the iTunes App Store last October, and then quickly taken down, guess what? You’ve been given a second chance to download it. For some strange [...]
Samsung’s TV App Store hits 2 million downloads
01/18/2011, It wasn’t too long ago that Samsung announced that it had surpassed 1 million downloads for its TV App Store and now the Korean company has announced that the store has surpassed 2 million downloads, confirming that there is quite [...]
Amazon to set their own prices on their own Android app store
01/17/2011, Bad news if you’re thinking of selling your apps on their upcoming Android app store – you don’t get the final say on what your app costs. According to a report online, you’ll be able to submit your app to [...]
iOS app downloads to overtake music downloads by March
01/17/2011, We already knew that app downloads were a big thing, but did you ever stop and think how big a deal it could be? According to research, at the rate that app downloads are going, the App Store might overtake [...]
10 Billionth downloader to win $10,000 iTunes gift card
01/14/2011, Fancy winning a $10,000 gift card from Apple? Apple has just announced that they will be offering a $10,000 reward to the lucky person who downloads the 10 billionth app from the iTunes App Store. As of now, about 9.76 [...]
Microsoft opposes Apple’s trademark claim to the App Store
01/12/2011, Apple’s effort to trademark the name “App Store” is now facing some opposition from Microsoft, as the software giant argues that the phrase is too generic to register and would restrict competitors’ ability to use the term to describe their [...]
Kindle for Mac now available in the Mac App Store
01/10/2011, Kindle for Mac has been available as a free app for a long time and now Amazon wants to make sure that Mac users will be able to download it via an even easier method – Apple’s Mac App Store. [...]
Coverage app for iOS helps you compare carrier coverage
01/10/2011, With Verizon’s iPhone likely to arrive very soon, are you wondering what the difference between the coverage from various carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile is? If you already own an iOS device, you might want to check [...]
VLC removed from App Store, now available on Cydia
01/09/2011, Many iPad and iPhone owners out there were probably overjoyed when the multi-format video player VLC arrived on the iOS platform. Issues immediately appeared over the program’s licensing and there was probably only one likely outcome to the whole issue [...]
