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's App Store has best month ever
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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Apple Reveals 'Best of 2016' Apps, Books, Games, Movies, and TV Shows
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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Smartphone health apps often miss real medical emergencies
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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Be very careful when downloading apps from Mac App Store – confusion could cost you
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 Criticized by Korean Game Developers for its App Store Refund Policy
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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App Store developers say app refunds are being abused, and Apple isn’t helping
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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Apple using drones to catch Google Maps, report says
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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12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
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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Best iPhone Apps 2016: Photoshop Fix, Prisma, Slack, Snapchat And More
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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TV apps are breaking down into a confusing mess
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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Popular apps unlock new features for World AIDS Day
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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10 Fun iPhone Apps for Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s
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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Should Apple Kill the Mac App Store?
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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Buyer Beware: Mac App Store Full of Bogus Junk
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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Apple needs to eject all the misleading junk on the Mac App Store, report says
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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Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams
In theory, this is part of why app stores are useful. Users afraid of being scammed on the open web can browse the Mac App Store with confidence, knowing that Apple’s walled garden will protect them. Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice …
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