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Apple's App Store nears 25 billion downloads. That's a lot of downloads.

Posted February 20, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Apple's App Store is nearing its 25 billionth download in just 3 1/2 years.
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For Apple app developers, the most stressful time of the year

Posted December 19, 2011 - 2:30 pm

Apple's annual eight-day holiday shutdown of its App Store begins Thursday.
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Fake ID app maker urges Apple to reconsider ban

Posted December 15, 2011 - 11:47 am

The website that makes a "fake ID" app recently pulled from Apple's App Store asks the company to reconsider. Don't hold your breath, DriversEd.com; this is a matter of national security!
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After the 10-cent rush: What the Android Market needs now

Posted December 14, 2011 - 12:45 pm

10 billion downloads? Cool. 10-cent apps? Nifty. Now Android needs to get people used to, and even excited for, paying full price.
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Apple caves to political pressure, yanks fake ID app from online store

Posted December 13, 2011 - 11:54 am

Apple has removed an app from its online store after a Pennsylvania senator said it could be used by underage drinkers and terrorists to create fake IDs.
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Weaselware is most exploitive, fastest-growing trend in software

Posted December 9, 2011 - 1:39 pm

The worst aspect of the no-privacy interweb is the presumption by developers that they're now allowed to add spyware to previously legitimate software, add backdoors they can use to check your PC or tag and track you like an endangered seal across the Internet.
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Windows 8 needs to succeed on desktops to succeed on mobile

Posted December 9, 2011 - 10:38 am

Microsoft needs to balance its existing .NET developers and newer, web-thinking app makers. What it needs is commitment to making Windows 8s Metro system its A-1 priority.
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Apple announces top apps of 2011 for iPhone, iPad

Posted December 8, 2011 - 4:11 pm

Apple announces its annual lists of top-selling and downloaded apps for the iPad and iPhone. Angry Birds was the big winner.
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'Jew or not Jew': There's no longer an app for that in France

Posted September 15, 2011 - 1:21 pm

Apple yanks a controversial app from its App Store in France after complaints from activist groups.
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Apple targets enterprises with volume-purchase App Store plan

Posted August 19, 2011 - 10:22 am

Apple's new Volume Purchase Program targets large enterprises embracing the new mobile computing world.
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Apple-PayPal blame battle sticks Mac user with bill for 122 copies of Lion (when he only wanted one)

Posted July 28, 2011 - 10:18 am

A customer who downloaded a copy of OS X Lion get charged 122 times.
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Analyst: Apple customers downloading more apps (and paying more, too)

Posted July 11, 2011 - 11:01 am

Apple users have an increasing appetite for applications downloaded from the App Store -- and that includes paid apps.
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Apple loses 'app store' trademark, designs U.S. trademark law out of Macs, iPhones

Posted July 7, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Apple will also get trademark control back on the term "app store" by trademarking all the letters that make it up and any word with an extraneous lower-case "i" stuck on the front.
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Breakfast links: Press-hyped HP TouchPad arrives, press says 'meh'

Posted June 30, 2011 - 8:00 am

Plus: App stores make a killing.
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Fantastic facts about Apple apps

Posted May 24, 2011 - 11:39 am

Early Tuesday morning, Apple's iTunes app store crossed a remarkable threshold: It approved its 500,000th app.
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Under pressure, Time Warner drops 11 channels from iPad TV app

Posted April 1, 2011 - 6:30 am

For the second time since launching two weeks ago on the App Store, Time Warner is scaling back the number of television channels it offers subscribers via an app for their Apple iPad tablets.
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Apple should explain why it approved 'gay cure' app in first place (but don't hold your breath)

Posted March 23, 2011 - 10:46 pm

I'm reasonably certain Steve Jobs didn't personally approve the "gay cure" app that was available for download from Apple's App Store until this week. But someone did. It'd be nice if Apple explained why.
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Angry Birds maker gets $42 million in venture funding

Posted March 10, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Finnish game company that brought the world Angry Birds is getting $42 million in venture financing.
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Steve Jobs email attempts to mollify developers, clarifies little

Posted February 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm

In response to developer concerns about how extensively Apple will enforce its new subscription policy, Steve Jobs sent a one-line email. Unfortunately, it doesn't really give any real information about what apps will be affected by the policy.
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It's official: No one likes Apple subscription plan

Posted February 17, 2011 - 11:16 pm

First developers and content companies hated it. Then the media got in its shots. Now the federal government and European regulators are casting a skeptical eye toward Apple's recently announced shakedown terms of business for content providers selling their product through Apple's App Store.
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Google outmaneuvers Apple in content subscription play

Posted February 16, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Just a day after Apple announced a highly criticized content subscription plan that takes 30% of revenue from publishers selling access to their content via Apple's online store, rival Google unveiled a competing subscription service for which the search giant will only take 10% of publisher revenues.
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Apple, News Corp. launch iPad-only newspaper, provide no news of additional App Store subscriptions [video]

Posted February 2, 2011 - 1:31 pm

The Daily, the first iPad/tablet-only newspaper, launched alongside Apple's new subscription model for publications in the App Store. While The Daily promises a lot on its own, Apple was mum about making its new subscription system available to other publications.
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Will Apple force ebook vendors to sell through the App Store or face eviction from the iPad, iPhone?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 3:51 pm

Apple's statement on its controversial rejection of Sony's e-reader app for the iPad (and iPhone) raises more questions and concerns about the future of other e-reader apps on its iOS platform, which could be bad timing with so many other tablets about to hit the market.
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Is Apple really out to drive content off the iPad or is Sony just making a stink?

Posted February 1, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Sony is claiming that Apple has changed its App Store policy to prevent any outside content being purchased and displayed inside apps. But is that really the case? Did Apple even make a policy change or just start enforcing an existing policy that Sony violated, causing Sony to cry foul?
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Vast riches await (a lucky few) iPhone apps developers

Posted February 1, 2011 - 11:29 am

With more than 10 billion downloads (and counting) since opening its virtual doors in July 2008, Apple's App Store has become a source of potential riches for developers fortunate enough to create an application that catches on with the public.
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