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the App Store

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228 articles accelerating

the App Store has appeared in 228 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 11 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, App Store, iPhone, Google.

Articles
228
mentions
Velocity
+250.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+3.318
velocity change
Sources
59
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-10-09
404 Media 12 related

Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations

and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights.  —  www.404media.co/ap...

2025-10-04
Fox Business 92 related

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app

Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : Apple pulls immigrati...

2025-08-13
Reuters 42 related

Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action

This is a column about AI.  My boyfriend works at Anthropic. Becca Monaghan / indy100 : Elon Musk has dropped the Trump feud for now - he's falling out with another CEO instead Forbes : Elon Musk Says...

2024-08-13
TechCrunch 53 related

After Apple's threats, Patreon memberships via its iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% fee from November 2024; creators must switch to subscription billing

if you're paying with iPhone Hamish McKenzie / On Substack : The price of payments  —  Today, Patreon is in the unenviable position of explaining to creators … Ashley King / Digital Music News : The ‘...

2024-04-04
The Verge 20 related

Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3

Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app from your own site th...

2024-02-09
BleepingComputer 28 related

LastPass warns users about a fake copy of its app on Apple's App Store, with a similar name and logo, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials

what you need to know Amrita Khalid / The Verge : Fake LastPass phishing app nabs a five-star rating on Apple's App Store.The slyly named “LassPass” … Heinrich Long / RestorePrivacy : Fake LastPass Pa...

2023-07-05
TechCrunch 52 related

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Amanda Silberling:  —  Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...

2023-02-02
TechCrunch 2 related

Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022

and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp : Another decentrali...

2022-12-01
MacRumors 11 related

Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple's HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store

Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to a tweet shared by Musk this afternoon.

2022-10-08
Engadget 33 related

Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps on the App Store and Google Play that have a “Login with Facebook” button

delete them now Priya Singh / BGR India : Meta warns against Android, iOS apps for stealing users' Facebook password Justin Luna / Neowin : Meta warns Facebook users about password-stealing Android an...

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Quarterly Coverage

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the App Store has appeared in 270 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT,... and Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, App Store, iPhone, Epic, and Google. Coverage has shifted toward developer, funding themes and away from regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q2developer +10pts; research -11pts
2024Q3enterprise +20pts; developer -10pts; regulation -10pts
2024Q4enterprise +13pts; developer +33pts

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