The Short Version Appsfire is introducing today a powerful and innovative signal to assess whether an app is worth downloading. App Score is a dynamic score which processes dozens of parameters several times a day across all the apps in the iOS App Store. The App Score for a particular app goes beyond the current ratings, rankings [...]
We’ve covered this issue before, preemptively. But now is the time to act! Some reports have emerged that Apple is now massively rejecting apps that still use the “[UIDevice uniqueIdentifier]” a.k.a. the UDID (Unique Device IDentifier). This means that developers have two choices: drop using this entirely, or find a replacement. Some have gone the [...]
Open the App store right now. Take a look at the top 25 free apps right now. Look carefully. Yes, most of them are games. In the screenshot below taken a couple of days ago 15 of the top 25 apps are games. 1 category for more than half of the hits. Take a lot [...]
iOS5 loves twitter. We knew it would have an impact on twitter as an app. More and more people become aware of this sharing service and sign up. 4 days after the release of iOS5, we can already observe an impact on Twitter growth, or better said, rank. Twitter is published in the social [...]
