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apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 3/26/2009

iPhone App Store: 30,000 apps, but slowing

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Delays in approval. Although Apple claims that 96% of apps submitted in February were approved — 98% within seven days — reports persist of apps languishing in the queue for months. Delayed payments. The waits for monthly payments have grown longer this year, on occasion violating the contract ...

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blog.wired.com - 3/31/2009

Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store

— blog.wired.com — The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 24 percent of paid applications for free distribution. Apple's App Store offers about 25,000 paid apps, and almost a quarter have been ... (more) Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store

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tuaw.com - 3/27/2009

SlingPlayer for iPhone submitted to app store

— tuaw.com — It's something many iPhone owners have been waiting for since the iPhone first appeared 2 years ago. It was on again , off again, will they, won't they? Well, it seems they did. Sling has announced that SlingPlayer for iPhone has been submitted to ... (more) SlingPlayer for iPhone submitted to app store

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db.tidbits.com - 4/1/2009

Underperforming Apps to be Purged From App Store

— db.tidbits.com — Customers and developers alike often complain of the overly sprawling collection of apps in the iPhone App Store. With countless applications, many of which offer the same basic features, it's becoming increasingly difficult for truly useful and original apps to stand out, and for customers to ... (more) Underperforming Apps to be Purged From App Store

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Apple’s iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch closes in on 30,000 apps
MacDailyNews — ... to the count maintained by 148Apps, which updates its list automatically," Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune. "That’s up from 28,000 nine days ago and considerably higher than the official figure of 25,000 that Apple has been using," Elmer-DeWitt reports. In the full article, Elmer-DeWitt asserts that the rate of apps is "slowing," but he does so prematurely, without a full month of data, as a reader (and P.E.D. himself in an addendum to his article) points out. Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Fortune should obviously change their headline, "iPhone App Store: ...

Apple's iPhone: More Apps, More Problems
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... But of course, the more crowded the app store gets, the more difficult it for Apple to keep iPhone developers satisfied. Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt lists a number of recent issues developers have been clamoring about regarding the App Store: ...