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iPhone Analytics

[Michael Tsai](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/11/09/analytics-in-apple-apps/): > Tommy Mysk (Hacker News): > It seems that the #AppStore app on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to App

J Jenxi
12 November 2022
2 min read

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Epic Games Sends Emails to Fortnite Players Blaming Apple for New Season's Unavailability

[Epic Games email to players](https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/fortnite-emails-new-season-unavailable/) via MacRumors: > Apple is blocking Fortnite updates and new installs on the ‌App Store‌,

J Jenxi
30 August 2020
3 min read

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App stores, trust and anti-trust

[Benedict Evans](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/18/app-stores): > Specifically, Apple tried to solve three kinds of problem. > - > Putting apps in a sandbox, where they can only

J Jenxi
20 August 2020
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Apple defends App Store's 30% cut ahead of Tim Cook testimony

[CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/apple-defends-app-stores-30percent-cut-ahead-of-tim-cook-testimony.html): > For Cook, the questioning is expected to center around Apple’s App Store, which is

J Jenxi
23 July 2020
2 min read

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China drove 40% of mobile app spending and nearly half of all downloads in 2018

Manish Sigh wrote for VentureBeat that [China drove 40% of mobile app spending and nearly half of all downloads in 2018](https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/16/app-annie-china-drove-40-of-mobile-app-spend

J Jenxi
18 January 2019
2 min read

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U.S. appeals court revives antitrust lawsuit against Apple

Reuters reported on [U.S. appeals court reviving antitrust lawsuit against Apple](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-court-idUSKBN14W2VH). > But if the challenge ultimately succeeds, “the obvi

J Jenxi
13 January 2017
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Why not everyone should be doing beta testing

Federico Viticci wrote on MacStories about how [apps are getting negative reviews in the App Store for issues with beta versions of iOS and OS X](http://www.macstories.net/stories/on-negative-app-stor

J Jenxi
14 July 2015
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How NSA and allies exploit Google and Samsung app stores

Ars Technica reported on [how the NSA and allies exploited Google and Samsung’s app stores](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/theres-an-app-for-that-how-nsa-allies-exploit-mobile-a

J Jenxi
23 May 2015
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App store revenue

Benedict Evans wrote about [app Store revenues](http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/7/22/app-store-revenue). > - Google said it paid out $5bn to developers from Google IO in 2013 to Google IO i

J Jenxi
24 July 2014
2 min read

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Let’s get rid of App Store star ratings

Marco Arment [questions the use of App Store’s star ratings](http://www.marco.org/2014/01/03/app-store-ratings-are-broken). Matt posted previously [about whether we should rate apps when prompted by

J Jenxi
4 January 2014
3 min read

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Reporting Apple’s “Rate this app” dialogs

Chuq Von Rospach writes about how [Apple can implement a system to report unwanted “Rate this app” dialogs](http://www.chuqui.com/2013/12/apple-cant-ban-rate-this-app-dialogs/). > What you want to

J Jenxi
19 December 2013
1 min read

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Should you rate App Store apps when prompted?

I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve opened an app that I want to use to do something quick, only to immediately be nagged by the pop up prompting for my feedback. There are even times whe

J Jenxi
16 December 2013
2 min read

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Apple App Store search finally notices common typing mistakes

To me, search has always been one of Apple’s weak points. Even after taking that into account, it’s always been frustrating that mistyping one letter could mean that you would not find the app that yo

J Jenxi
28 November 2013
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Apple App Store introduces video trailers

Apple finally releases *Clumsy Ninja* and this latest Editor’s Choice app [debuts with a video trailer](http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/21/apple-debuts-app-store-video-trailers-in-latest-editors-choi

J Jenxi
23 November 2013
1 min read

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