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Apple Needs to Give Developers a Way to Respond to App Store Reviews

By | May 13, 2013 | 2 comments
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Google Play reply-reviewsMany times, users leave negative comments in the App Store for issues that can be explained or resolved if the person would contact the app’s developer directly instead. Some developers have even added wording to their app’s summary in regards to it. There should be a way for developers to respond to comments, if only to let them know they heard the complaint.

Google just announced that developers now have the ability to respond to user comments in Google Play.

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AppShopper is Back, Adds Social Feature, but Only Available for the iPhone

By | April 23, 2013 | No comment yet
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AppShopper Social 1Last December, Apple pulled the popular app aggregate service AppShopper from iOS, claiming the company violated clause 2.25, which states that apps displaying other apps for purchase or promotion “in a manner similar to or confusing with” the App Store will be rejected. Today, AppShopper found a way back into the App Store with some major changes that will keep it from being “too similar.” Unfortunately, the company has chosen to launch it as an iPhone app, instead of optimized for the iPad.

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Chinese Pirate iOS App Store Thriving. – No Jail Breaking Required

By | April 19, 2013 | No comment yet
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Pirate App Store ChinaI can’t be the only one who sees the irony in this situation. Only a few weeks ago, Chinese State-run film studio Shanghai Animation filed a lawsuit against Apple for pirating movies. Today, TechInAsia is reporting that a development team in China has launched an entire Web store for pirating Apple apps. Who is calling the kettle black, now?

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App Store Still On Top of Revenue Stream, Despite Google’s Best Efforts

By | April 17, 2013 | No comment yet
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App Annie App RevenueOne important feature that Apple, and many industry analysts, point to as the reason for Apple’s success is its massive infrastructure. That is, the iTunes, iBooks, and App Store, is why consumers choose iOS over other operating systems time and time again. Today, App Annie released a report that, even though Google Play has amassed a huge amount of apps over the past year in effort to compete with Apple, it pales in comparison to the iPad maker in revenue.

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iTunes Tweak Adds Age Rating to App Pages

By | April 4, 2013 | No comment yet
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App Rating

When you went to your iPad’s App Store this morning, you may have noticed a small, but important change to the way it looks. Late last night, Apple made a tweak to its App Store design that adds age rating tags to every app. Maybe now parents will be able to distinguish much easier which apps are appropriate for their little ones to play.

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Another Kid Wracks Up Huge iPad Bills, Gets Reported for Fraud

By | March 26, 2013 | 3 comments
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cameroncrossanA 13-year-old in the U.K. is in hot water today after using his iPad to wrack up a bill of more than £3,700 pounds, which amounts to over five thousand dollars. Doug Crossan, a policeman in the U.K., claims that he was “horrified” when his credit card company informed him that his son Cameron had spent thousands of dollars in Apple’s App Store.

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This Week’s App Store Editor’s Choice: Rock Runner

By | February 18, 2013 | No comment yet
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The App Store has so many awesome new apps coming out every week, it is nearly impossible to keep track of them all. One way Apple tries to help out is to spotlight a game or app (sometimes both) that is especially good. Last week, Cordy 2 was given the honor of being the App Store’s Editor’s Choice. This week, Apple chose another platformer with excellent graphics and exciting action. Rock Runners will have you tapping your way through obstacle courses and zooming across the universe.

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Tim Cook Talks About Closing Apple Stores and Paying App Developers $8 Billion

By | February 12, 2013 | 1 comment
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paloaltoapplestoreDuring its first quarter conference call, Apple revealed that it had paid a whopping $7 billion dollars to app developers. At his keynote speech at the Goldman Sachs investor conference this morning, Tim Cook updated Apple’s payout figures, announcing that the company had paid $8 billion to developers, marking $1 billion in payouts since January 13.

That’s a remarkable increase in developer payouts. In October of 2012, the amount paid to developers was just $6.5 billion, meaning Apple’s holiday season brought in about $1.5 billion for developers, as millions of people hit the App Store with newly purchased devices to download apps.

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Apple iOS App Revenue More Than Three Times Higher Than Android

By | February 1, 2013 | 1 comment
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App Annie Index

App tracking service App Annie recently released its research index for the previous 2012 quarter and Apple is still on top with the highest revenue stream. According to the index, iOS apps are three-and-a-half times more profitable than Android.

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Apple and Amazon Ordered to Play Nice in “App Store” Trademark Dispute

By | January 16, 2013 | No comment yet
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app_store_icon1In early 2011, Amazon launched the Appstore for Android, which immediately put Apple on the defensive. The Cupertino-based company said that it had exclusive rights to the term “App Store,” and that Amazon’s similar “Appstore” name would confuse developers and consumers attempting to access Apple’s store.

Apple, who owns the “App Store” trademark, sued Amazon for using the name, and today, U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte told the two companies that they must enter settlement talks before being allowed to fight over the name in a courtroom.

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