iPad App Store

iPad App Store Now Has Over 100,000 Apps

by Patrick Jordan June 30, 2011

The iPad App Store has hit a major milestone this week, as the folks at MacStories discovered via the store itself. There are now more than 100,000 iPad apps available. That’s a huge number considering the iPad has still only been out for around 15 months. It’s also an enormous number when it comes to [...]

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iPad In-App Purchases Now Always Prompt for Password

by Patrick Jordan May 9, 2011

Here’s a small bit of good news on how the iPad App Store works. It looks like In-App purchases on the iPad are always prompting for a password now, even if you have just entered your password while purchasing or updating an app within the last few minutes. This is a very nice change because [...]

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iPad App Updates from The Twilight Zone

by Patrick Jordan May 1, 2011

The Updates screen in the iPad App Store looks very odd to me over the last few days. It shows a number of updates available, but the dates look all skewed and crazy. Just as one example, Screens – the excellent VNC app – has an update listed as Version 1.5. The update is said [...]

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App Store Features iPad Magazines Offering Subscriptions, All 6 of Them

by Patrick Jordan April 29, 2011

The iPad App Store has got a new featured section this week that showcases iPad magazine titles that are offering subscription plans. A nice idea in theory, but seeing as there are only six titles shown – that don’t exactly cover a broad array of interests or include any real marquee names – it seems [...]

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Quick Scoreboard Check: Over 75,000 Apps Designed for iPad, Less than 100 Designed for Android Tablets

by Patrick Jordan April 2, 2011

This week the number of iPad apps – those specifically designed for the iPad, not those that are just iPhone apps able to run on the Apple tablet – passed 75,000. Also this week, blogger and software developer Justin Williams did a count on Android apps available for Honeycomb, the version of Android designed to [...]

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MLB At Bat 11 for iPad Is App Store iPad App of the Week

by Patrick Jordan April 1, 2011

The excellent MLB.com At Bat 11 is this week’s iPad App of the Week in the iPad App Store. Baseball’s new season kicked off yesterday, so this is a perfectly fitting week for the App Store to highlight MLB At Bat 11. The app has also just had an update this week, to Version 4.1.0. [...]

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New iPad App Store Featured Section – At Work Apps

by Patrick Jordan March 18, 2011

The iPad App Store has got a new Featured section this week – titled ‘@Work : Apps for Business’. The new section has got a small but good list of some business-like apps for the iPad, including some stalwarts like Dropbox, Box.net, QuickOffice, Documents to Go, a couple of the iWork apps, and a good-looking [...]

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App Store Now Has a Section for AirPlay-Enabled Apps

by Patrick Jordan March 15, 2011

Now that iOS has been out for a few days, a few 3rd party apps have been updated to support it. And the App Store now has a special section to showcase those apps that have done so. The section is called ‘Great AirPlay-Enabled Apps’ and you can find it in the Featured tab of [...]

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Here’s One Good Thing About the New App Store Subscription Policy

by Patrick Jordan February 25, 2011

The App Store’s new subscription policy has stirred up a lot of controversy and criticism since it was announced – with many publishers and others feeling that Apple’s 30% cut is too steep for this sort of App Store purchase and that Apple is being greedy at the risk of losing apps and developers. It’s [...]

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Apple Not Happy with Game Publisher Over In-App Purchases?

by Patrick Jordan February 18, 2011

From a report at Apple Insider yesterday: Apple has reportedly had "strong words" with publisher Capcom about in-app purchases in the free iPhone and iPad children’s game "Smurfs’ Village," and is said to be considering adjusting iTunes account login times after receiving complaints from parents. Citing a "well placed source," PocketGamer.biz reported Wednesday that Apple [...]

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Apple Announces Subscriptions for the iOS App Store

by Patrick Jordan February 15, 2011

Apple has finally announced their new subscription services available to publishers on the App Store. Here’s the opening of their press release on this today: Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital [...]

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