Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account
including sideloading John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Apple begrudgingly allows EU customers to use rival ap...
Sources: Apple execs met with Chinese officials recently to discuss new rules forcing Apple to ban foreign apps whose operators are not registered with China
Country's push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from iPhone App Store in China
Behind the chart-topping anonymous messaging app Sarahah, which gives message recipients no way to respond
Text service tops iPhone download charts, but the real challenge is staying there — Read next … There are two unusual things about Sarahah, a mobile app topping iPhone App Store download charts arou...
Steve Ballmer praises Apple for creation of iPhone App Store
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer recently had positive words about Apple's success with the iPhone and its App Store, adding fuel to rumors of a potential alignment between Apple and Microsoft to bring B...
iPhone App Store roulette: A tale of rejection
InfoWorld - Think back to May 26, 1995. Steve Jobs was wandering in the desert, fiddling with some company called Pixar that made animated movies of dancing desk lamps, and planning his next step for...
Getting Noticed on the iPhone App Store
In a megastore as big as Apple's iPhone App Store, the secret to success is getting noticed. With more than 65,000 apps in 20 categories, app developers have come up with different strategies to acco...
Want to Fool Apple's App Store? Plant an Easter Egg
Despite Apple's reputation for being a notorious gatekeeper with its iPhone App Store, there's a way to sneak in content such as porn, profanity or potentially malicious code, with no hacking required...
Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store
The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 20 percent of paid applications for free distribution. — Apple's App Store offers about 25,000...
The myth of the 99-cent killer app
Stung by criticism from frustrated developers, Apple (AAPL) redesigned its increasingly crowded iPhone App Store last Friday to showcase the most popular paid applications in each category — Books, Bu...
Ballmer: Microsoft working on App Store-like software distribution
But he rejects the idea of using WebKit to power IE — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said ...