Dec 1

App Store

The App Store has been ballooning non-stop since its inception and this week it has just surpassed the 10,000 mark in number of available apps in the App Store. A look back on the history of the App Store will see a troubled past that is still struggling with controversy. The App submittance process was hit with a NDA a little while back; a move which caused enough uproar within the developer community to force apple to lift the agreement shortly afterwards although Apple is still known for its unpredictable and seemingly illogical app review process. The number of available apps in the app store might have surpassed 10,000, but there are numerous other third party apps available to jailbroken phones as well.

-Derek

Oct 23

app store record

Things have been looking good for Apple. They’ve sold millions of iPhones making them the third most popular cell phone maker in the world, now they can add another achievement to the list. The Apple App Store recently had over 200 million applications downloaded since its introduction only a few months ago. Just last month they had 100 million downloads, not too shabby Apple.

-Ray

[Source: macrumors]

Jul 14

This article was originally posted on the iPhone Spies blog

It appears that some shady tactics are being utilized by certain developers in order to have their applications placed first on the features page for the iPhone App Store. Some developers have been adding spaces or punctuation marks to the front of the names of their applications to be put in the beginning of the alphabetical order. The most consistent criminal guilty of this seems to be the developer Jirbo Inc., who’s games are prominently featured.

Many developers whom are not investing in these tactics are very angry. An anonymous developer stated:

“As a developer myself with my own game on this list, I am extremely disappointed that these companies have essentially tried to step all over everyone else in order to promote their products, particularly Jirbo, Inc. who decided to put a space in front of all of their games’ titles. I would imagine that as a consumer, these tactics would be equally perturbing as they screw up the integrity of the store.”

Hopefully Apple will fix this in order to make the marketing of App’s a bit more fair on the App Store.

-Jameson

[Source: Macenstein]