Tag Archives: Apple

Trouble in app discovery land? What about Appsfire?

By Ouriel | Published: April 10, 2013

With all the commotion and confusion (cf. the appgratis case, Appshopper last year), we wanted to reiterate and clarify how Appsfire works. Some have raised legitimate questions about us and our future, while others will also start imagining things. First and foremost, let’s review what Appsfire is all about: The Appsfire app is a non-paid [...]

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Unpaid app discovery

By Ouriel | Published: March 27, 2013

We wanted to address a topic we re often asked about, but that is not very well understood in our industry. App discovery is a jungle but it does not mean every single service that labels itself “app discovery” operates by the same rules. You can find two categories of discovery services: paid discovery services [...]

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Appsfire is so proud to have sponsored John Gruber’s “The Talk Show”!

By Sofia | Published: August 31, 2012
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We are so proud to have sponsored the popular tech podcast “The Talk Show” on August 24th! Host John Gruber and guest Craig Hockenberry gave their expert opinion on the Appsfire app and how it’s a more helpful user experience than traditional app-finding methods. Using a brilliant analogy to movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, John [...]

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App Score July Report – What happened in the App Quality world in July?

By Maxence | Published: August 17, 2012

As we promised last month, we will compile a monthly App Score Report, and this is the July edition. So what are the main movements for July? TOP 25 Ever – iPhone – Game Move the Box, Paper Toss, Logos Quiz Game & 2 other apps left the TOP 25 Free apps. Angry Birds Games [...]

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Is letting answering to App store user reviews a good thing for developers? No

By Ouriel | Published: June 22, 2012

So Google is now letting (some) Developers answer to users review. Most think this is a good idea and even call Apple to do the same thing. But this is not the right problem to solve. The problem is not the review system being frozen (and gameable). The problem is the lack of discipline of [...]

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Straight from the Labs: Introducing Appstein to Help You Download More Intelligently

By Ouriel | Published: June 21, 2012

What you see in our major product lines – our mobile apps, App Booster - is just the tip of the iceberg. Below the surface there’s a lot of data and intelligence about apps, and we’ll often leverage this  to come up with interesting lab experiments. Sometimes these experiments remain internal, but often we share with [...]

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OpenUDID – for the record

By Yann Lechelle | Published: June 7, 2012

OpenUDID is an independent and open-source effort; nevertheless, Appsfire is by default the primary sponsor of this effort, with one single goal: to try and help the mobile advertising industry at large to navigate the post UDID-deprecation era. From time to time, journalists come to us with questions. Here is a compiled Q & A. [...]

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Introducing the Appsfire App Score, the ultimate quality score for mobile apps

By Ouriel | Published: May 16, 2012
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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 [...]

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OpenUDID – now is the time!

By Yann Lechelle | Published: March 25, 2012

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 [...]

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Dear Apple, it’s about time for a Game Store

By Ouriel | Published: November 2, 2011

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 [...]

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