Tag: app store

Questions may be arising about demand for Apple’s iPhone 7 and its Apple Watch Series 2, but when it comes to the Apple App Store, the consumer electronics giant is killing it. That’s according to Philip Schiller, vice president of worldwide marketing …
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The self-deleting, image and video-sharing app beat out Messenger and Pokémon Go to become the most popular downloaded app this year. It’s an impressive leap for an app that landed fifth on the same list last year. On Apple Music, Drake dominated the top …
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Apple (AAPL)’s emphasis on software and services seems to be paying off. The company had its highest monthly sales ever in the App Store in November, tweeted Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Tweet: November 2016 was a …
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The others on the ’10 Best Apps of the Year’ list include Fitso Fitness and Running app, Folioscope, Hyper, Tinycards, Memrise, Meditation Studio, Quartz, and WiFire. The ’10 Best Games of the Year’ list includes Chameleon Run, FIFA Mobile Football, Plants …
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Woman looking at health and fitness apps on an iPhone. Don’t count on smartphone health apps to help when you’re having a serious medical emergency, warn the authors of a new review of the technology. The study, published Monday in the journal Health …
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Some of the apps currently on the Mac App Store are misleading consumers into thinking they are official software packages from big brandsApple Just bought a new MacBook and looking to kit it out by downloading software? That’s a good idea, but be careful …
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Apple has been criticized in South Korea for its mobile app refund policy which game developers say removes them from the process and is regularly being abused. Apple controls the App Store payment refund process for paid-for apps and determines whether to …
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As part of its App Store policy, Apple can choose to give refunds to customers who are unsatisfied with an app they download. It’s a good, common-sense move, and a valuable tool for anyone who’s ever read a description, downloaded the app, and then …
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Thanks to drones, that soon may change. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is said to be using the aerial robots as well as some indoor navigation tech to improve its app to better compete with Google. Apple, like Google and Microsoft’s Bing …
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Can you believe we’re less than a month away from 2017? New Year’s Eve is just four short weeks away, but we’ve still got plenty of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free to share with you before 2016 comes to a close. Today’s list features 12 …
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It’s becoming an increasingly difficult chore trying to scour the App Store for decent apps given its very saturated library. A plethora of excellent apps intermingle with shovelware, and it’s often a tall order to sort the ones worthy of downloading from …
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DirecTV Now reestablishes the channel paradigm in a system built for apps Graduations are often accompanied by proclamations. Such was the case for Apple TV when Apple’s former hobby became a full-fledged OS vessel as Tim Cook proclaimed, “the future of TV …
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The apps will also be overlaid with the color red in the Apple App Store. Until December 6, these apps will offer new content via in-app purchases. The proceeds will go to RED organization, cofounded by U2 frontman Bono. The news coincides with World AIDS …
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The holiday season is approaching 10 Fun Chrome Extensions for a Little Christmas Cheer 10 Fun Chrome Extensions for a Little Christmas Cheer Here are ten festive extensions that can help you count down to the holiday and also have a little fun with Chrome.
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Dig into the Mac App Store, and you’ll probably find what you’re looking for – or something similar. Unlike its iOS counterpart, the Mac App Store (MAS) is loaded with enough useless bloat to drown it. That might be what Apple should do to it, too.
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When Apple unveiled the Mac App Store in January 2011, the company’s then-CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed that the store would make “finding and buying PC apps easy and fun.” But while the store may have been created as a place to buy software without fear …
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The app stores provided by Microsoft, Google, and Apple are meant to be safe havens for consumers seeking out software for their devices. All three companies have safeguards in place to keep the malicious junk off their online markets, but the systems aren …
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