App Store

Apple's Fair Play DRM for iBooks cracked

By Andrew Wray, Saturday, Feb 25, 2012 a 7:49 pm

It appears as though Apple's FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) for iBooks has been cracked, allowing iBooks to work on non-iOS ePub readers.

What change does Apple most need to make to the App Store? [Poll]

By Georgia, Friday, Feb 24, 2012 a 10:46 am

Apple announced the App Store way back in spring of 2008 as part of the iPhone SDK event, and now 4 years later it's the biggest thing to ever hit mobile applications, but it still has a lot of issues. If you could wave a magic wand and have Apple add one thing to the App Store, what would it be?

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Apple acquires Chomp, set to revamp search and discovery for App Store apps

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Feb 23, 2012 a 8:44 pm

Apple has acquired Chomp, a search and discovery app for the iPhone that helps users find the best-of-the-best apps in the App Store. Apple plans to utilize Chomp's proprietary algorithms and technology to improve discoverability and user experience, presumably both on the mobile and desktop versions of the App Store.

Apple rumored to be working on complete iTunes Store and App Store redesign

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Feb 20, 2012 a 10:59 pm

Apple is reportedly planning a redesign for the iTunes Store and App Store for sometime later this year.

The App Store and the scam app invasion

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Feb 20, 2012 a 12:22 pm

Fraudulent apps are a a complex, entangled, messy piece of business that harms Apple, developers, and consumers.

Recently there's been a dramatic rise in the number of fraudulent apps getting attention -- even top sales positions -- in the iPhone and iPad App Store.

Apple Begins Countdown to 25 billion App Downloads

By George Lim, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 a 12:55 pm

The App Store has been around for nearly 4 years, and it is approaching 25 billion downloads. (That's 25,000,000,000!)

To celebrate, Apple is doing a countdown and giving away a US$10,000 (or equivalent) iTunes gift card to the person who downloads the 25 billionth app.

Messages beta for OS X brings iMessage to the Mac

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 9:50 am

Avoid carrier SMS and MMS charges and keep all your IMs in one place with iOS iMessage right on your Mac

If you have been waiting for Apple to release a version of iMessage for Mac then that day has just become a lot closer. After the release of the beta of OS X Mountain Lion earlier today, Apple has followed it up with the release of a beta version of its new Mac Messages app. Messages, which will replace the current iChat app, brings all of the great features of iMessage to your Mac while keeping many that made iChat great as well.

iBookstore updated for publishers, now accepts screenshots and the ability to issue promo codes

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 6:43 am

Apple has sent out a letter via its iTunes Connect portal to all of its registered iBookstore content publishers advising them of some much needed improvements. The iBookstore will now allow publishers to submit screenshots of their books but even more importantly, they can now generate and issue promotional codes for any content sold in the iBookstore.

Apple rumored to be urging developers to get Retina display iPad 3 apps ready for announcement event

By Andrew Wray, Friday, Feb 10, 2012 a 2:57 pm

Building off of news from yesterday that Apple will be holding an iPad event in early March comes word that Apple has been in a frenzied rush with developers to finish up their iPad app efforts so they can be demoed on stage. Some of these apps may also be included in future iPad commercials showing off the new model. TheNextWeb reports:

Microsoft rolls out its MSN iPad app to the USA and Canada

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Feb 10, 2012 a 3:56 am

Microsoft has rolled out its popular MSN app to the USA and Canada. It was originally launched at the end of January as a UK only release. The MSN app brings you all of the latest news, sports, entertainment and much more form the Microsoft network in a beautiful magazine style layout on your iPad.