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About time! Apple lets you gift an app in the AppStore

March 22, 2010

iPad, iPhone

Has hell frozen over? It appears as if it has as Apple’s finally given users the ability to “gift” an application. We stopped trying to figure out the iTunes store, and we’re still scratching our heads over why coupon codes for the iPhone only work in the US, but at least things got a little boost today.

We’ve been able to gift audio for a while now, and it seems like Apple’s finally decided it was time to let us gift an application in the iTunes store. It seems to be universal, and it “seems” to work both in the US, and Canadian AppStores. Now there’s a first: Canadians getting access to something in the AppStore at the same time as Americans.

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It started as a hobby and turned into a full-time job for Josh. One minute he was keeping notes on his switch to the Mac and the next thing he knew he was the full time Editor-In-Chief for Macgasm. He spent his early years designing and developing Web sites, but now it's all writing, all the time. Josh also currently contributes to PCWorld. He produces two podcasts, The Macgasm Podcast, and The AppOrchard, and can be heard on CBC Radio once every couple of years, despite secretly wishing that was a more frequent gig.

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Lola

My husband approached them in September of 09 with the app allowing to gift an app and they said they couldn't do it. We tried pushing it before X-mas again, but they said that there are some legal issues involved. Now, the guy in the store to whom my husband presented calls us today and says 'guess what? it's being done now and looks awfully familiar!"
Well... may be it will teach my husband to talk to the attorney before sharing his work and ideas :((

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