Tag: app store
The EFF Unloads On Apple
The Electronic Foundations Frontier (EFF) has come out against Apple with guns blazing, citing the computer giant’s closed systems and “crystal prison” as being the...
5-Star App Store Reviews For Yahoo’s Axis, As Posted By Yahoo
How bad does Yahoo want you to like their new mobile web browser, Axis? Apparently they want it bad enough to write their own reviews...
Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil App Yanked From The App Store By Apple
Airfoil Speakers is an app from Rogue Amoeba that lets you turn your device into an AirPlay receiver. The iOS version has been in the...
Instacast’s Upgrade Makes Some Users Pay Twice
Complaints have been surfacing about Instacast’s dubious suspicious system, and for good reason: it makes some users pay for the product twice. Here’s how it...
The App Store Turns Four
Ah, App Store… it seems like just yesterday when we first saw your shining face crest the horizon of the tech world. Today, four years...
Adobe Lightroom Makes An Appearance On The App Store
Adobe already has a couple of apps on the Mac App Store, including Photoshop Elements, Revel, and Premiere Elements. But, what’s been missing so far...
Apple In Legal Trouble For Allegedly Double Billing iTunes Users
Apple’s refund policy and the difficult procedures required to obtain refunds for iTunes and App Store purchases are pretty notorious in these parts of the...
Apple Now Denying Apps With Dropbox Integration Access To The App Store
If you’re developing an app destined for the App Store, and you’re using the Dropbox SDK in some capacity, you may want to take a...
Australian Parliament Wants To Know: Why Are App Prices More Expensive In Australia?
Why do apps delivered over the Internet, through App Stores, cost more in one country compared to another? It seems that the Australian Parliament members...
And the 25 billionth application downloaded award goes to … Where’s My Water, the free edition
It’s official, and the countdown is over. Apple has announced that there have been 25 billion app downloads from the App Store. More than 315...
Want to make a living on the App Store? You have to sell an app per minute.
There are hundreds of thousands of applications on the App Store, the majority of which come in around the $0.99 price point. At such a...
Chomp acquired by Apple. App Store revamp soon?
As we all know, there is a massive amount of applications on the App Store, making it pretty difficult to sort through it with any...
Mozilla announces its own app store
Mozilla has announced that it will be launching a web app store next week, once the Mobile World Congress exhibition kicks off. Mozilla’s app store...
Apple wags its finger at companies gaming App Store charts
It’s well known that some shady developers use less-than-tasteful tactics to get their apps to the top of the charts on the App Store. Turns...
Apple on the war path against app piracy
Avast! Apptrackr, a repository for cracked iOS apps, is under attack from Apple’s legal team. After a thorough indexing, Apple has begun peppering the pirates...
Apple accidentally puts “GameStore” on the App Store and then yanks it
Apple let a little bit of software called GameStore slip to the App Store, but seems to have yanked it outta there. We can rest...
Mega Man X remastered for the iPhone
Pew! Pew! Mega Man X, the SNES classic, has been reworked, and it is now available for your iPhone and iPod touch for $4.99 USD....
App Store returns to full functioning on iOS 3.1.3 devices, problem was a bug, now fixed
Well, look who’s back. It turns out that the problem wasn’t you — it was Apple. The recent App Store update that caused havoc with devices...