Tag: app store
Apple removes Sweatshop HD iPad game from app store
Apple has been censoring its apps and other content available on the app store since its launch. From the past many years, Apple has maintained that the apps available on the iStore are “curated” as against the books and music on the store. Sweatshop HD was an iPad exclusive app and was available [...]
Apple censoring App Store
Smartphones are getting popular day by day, and everybody seems to have a smartphone irrespective of whether they need one or not. Anyhow, Apple’s iPhone covers a major chunk of the smartphone market and an iOS device is what an average person chooses when he goes out to buy a smartphone. Apple’s App Store is [...]
Apple Announces 40 Billion Downloads On The App Store
The App Store has hit 40 billion unique downloads, Apple announced today. In the year 2012 alone 20 billion downloads took place with December being a major contributor by ringing in a whopping 2 billion downloads. In September, Google announced 25 billion downloads from the Play Store, which is 15 billion less downloads than Apple’s [...]
Rasperry Pi Opens App Store
The makers of the Raspberry Pi, the tiny $25 to $35 Linux-based computer, have officially launched the Raspberry Pi App Store for users of the device. According to the announcement on the Raspberry Pi website, they are “launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games, applications, [...]
PlayStation Mobile Store now available for Sony Xperia, PS Vita, Android phones
Tokyo-based major video game company, Sony has just launched its brand new service called PlayStation Mobile – an online store that piles various game titles for selected Android phones, PS Vita and Xperia devices. This latest store app officially launched on Wednesday, exclusively in nine countries including Australia, Italy, Japan, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, US [...]
FBI Investigating Secondary Android App Store
Google’s legal team has just recently sent out a bunch of e-mails to their registered developers regarding a subpeona issued by the FBI. Supposedly this has something to do with an investigation regarding applications that are showing up in various places where developers have not provided any sort of consent., which leads the FBI to [...]
App Store from Amazon On Its Way to European Countries
The United States has had the pleasure of having the Amazon App Store exclusively for quite some time now, but those in other foreign countries haven’t had the luxury of enjoying the Amazon App Store, at least, until today. After years of exclusivity, Amazon has announced just today that they will be bringing the Amazon [...]
Google Introduces Siri-like Voice Search Features forAndroid and iOS
Everybody in the technology industry was amused when Siri was unveiled last October 2011 together with the launching of the iPhone 4S. From that time on, there have been voice recognition softwares coming out in public in order to rival the most welcomed Siri like the Samsung S Voice. Now, Google has unveiled the Siri-like [...]
Windows 8 App Store to Enable Seven-Day Trials
I don’t really like Windows 8 at all, honestly I think it’s terrible and need a lot of help. It does not take into consideration of the average user. They may think the average user is a geek who can easily find his/her way around, but, the every day person using it won’t be those [...]
Are Corrupt App Store Updates to be blamed for Recent Crashes in iOS and Mac Apps?
Apple’s Store is the one place where iPhone, iPad, and Mac users can find useful applications for their gadgets. Apple store is one of the main reasons behind the success of Apple lately. Apple generates a lot of revenue from its application store and when there is a problem in it, and then it means [...]
Amazon’s App Store, Not Google Play Store, Nipping At The Heels Of The Apple App Store
Google has just made a substantial change in it’s mobile business. We are all well aware that a little over a month ago Google changed the Android market to the “Google Play Store” in an effort to streamline all it’s downloadble content. We also heard last week substantial rumors that Google will sell their “Nexus” [...]
appsbar Comes Out Of Beta For Android and iPhone And Expands To Web And Facebook Apps
Do you remember back in the day when everyone wanted to get on the web, but registering an actual domain name through internic could cost you hundreds of dollars and take weeks to actually get going? Than along came sites like godaddy.com and now anyone with $7 and an internet connection could make their mark [...]
