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Apple Solves Cheating in the App Store

July 14, 2008 by Douglas  
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App It looks like Apple has settled the cheating going on in the App Store. Developers were changing their titles to included $, *, spaces and numbers to get themselves to the top of the list. Now it seems that they are being ordered by most recently added. This is nice because you can come to the app store and see what’s new and it keeps developers from cheating the system. Good job Apple, great way to handle it.



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17 Responses to “Apple Solves Cheating in the App Store”

  1. Mic on July 14th, 2008 9:09 pm:

    FIRST! :)
    btw that is a good way to stop it…

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  2. Asa on July 14th, 2008 9:44 pm:

    Just wondering how you uninstall apps on 2.0? I am still on 1.1.4.

    Thanks,

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    Adam on July 14th, 2008 9:46 pm:

    The same way you remove web shortcuts in 1.1.4. You hold down on the icon (as if you were going to move it) and an (X) will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the icon. Just click it to uninstall.

    SeijinZero on July 15th, 2008 11:25 pm:

    But what if you pay for it and you bought it via your phone and not iTunes? Does it work like the video games consoles and keep a record of your account?

    Asa on July 16th, 2008 3:41 am:

    Thats cool. Thanks for answering Adam,

    Sienzero – I wold imagine Itunes keeps the record because Doug wrote a story saying ‘free aps’. Once you download it seems to remember you have downloaded and paid before.

    caa4444 on July 16th, 2008 8:44 am:

    Its like January update, if u bought it, itunes remembers

  3. Cramster on July 14th, 2008 9:55 pm:

    this is a very good idea, bc now we can browse the most recently added to start off with.

    NEXT UP, APPLE: MMS, VIDEO, AND BUG FIXES

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  4. Joshua on July 14th, 2008 10:29 pm:

    couldn’t they have just not allowed special characters(,’!) at the beginning of application names.Simple. I still like apps being sorted from A-Z

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    Brooke on July 14th, 2008 11:14 pm:

    Yeah, it makes finding application a little more difficult…though, you can always use the Search option.

  5. Fabian on July 15th, 2008 12:23 am:

    this is nice, now we can see whats most recent!

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  6. Kara on July 15th, 2008 12:36 am:

    They should sort them by price, where the lowest is at top.

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    Ken on July 15th, 2008 10:33 am:

    They should allow the USER to choose how it is to be sorted. That would solve EVERYTHING

  7. Jj on July 15th, 2008 1:08 am:

    I’m glad they made this change, There was no need for A-Z sorting at all. But I still hope they implement more sorting methods. There should be sorting by date, price, popularity, rating etc.
    There’s gonna be hundreds of apps entering the store in the next few months so having a lot of sorting methods is key.

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    Douglas on July 15th, 2008 8:35 am:

    I hear there are over 4,000 apps in queue.

    SeijinZero on July 15th, 2008 11:33 pm:

    4,000!?!?!!??! how many more ways can you “upload to flickr” or microblog? That sounds a bit like over-saturation to me. I think a lot of these apps should a have a trial period or something too, to help you weed through them all.

  8. Chris on July 15th, 2008 1:32 am:

    That’s a stupid way to solve it. And it doesn’t really solve anything. The appstore within itunes still sorts by name, along with release date and popularity so if one sorts by name they will still get those apps first. How about they tell the developers to change the name of the app or it gets removed from the appstore. Sounds pretty simple.

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  9. Gustavo on July 15th, 2008 7:50 am:

    Nice, but so easy. Why don’t they let us choose? That would be nice, because just here I could see at least three different opinion.

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