Tag: Apple app store

Most popular paid mobile app for iOS taken down after day and a half

Julie Campbell
Apple virtual reality

Peace, the ad blocker that had risen to the highly coveted top spot at the App Store, was removed by its founder. The most popular paid mobile app for Apple devices, Peace, an ad blocker, has now been removed by its founder in less than two days from its launch on the market, despite its massive popularity. The mobile application was designed to stop advertising from showing up on web pages viewed on iPhones. The former Tumblr chief technology officer, Marco Arment, who is also the creator of the Peace…

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Ad blockers are already the top mobile apps at the App Store

John Montgallo
rumor apple mobile security apps security ad blocker

As global marketers keep a keen eye on this trend that threatens to derail their efforts, downloads continue. Among the Top 5 mobile paid apps at the U.S. Apple App Store, three are currently ad blockers; a trend that has caused marketers to feel uncertain about the future of advertising to iPhone users, but one that is also clearly highly appealing to device users. The fact that Apple has thrown its support behind ad blocking in its iOS9 platform is creating considerable controversy. While 3 of the top 5 mobile…

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Mobile commerce seeing boom of in-app purchasing

Stephanie Beck
Mobile apps payments

Mobile commerce and app buying power drives ahead According to the CCS Insight and Distimo analyst firms’ joint App VU Global report, app developers are seeing that mobile commerce is becoming exceptionally strong through in-app purchases, boosting their own revenues as well as those for app stores such those at Apple and Google. Among the top 200 grossing apps at Google Play (formerly known as the Android Marketplace) and the Apple App Store, 60 percent of all revenue came from purchases made through apps on smartphones and tablets. The iPad…

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ComboApp states full support for Apple’s crackdown against unethical marketing at the App Store

John Montgallo
Mobile-Commerce

ComboApp Marketing Agency, based in Chicago, has announced that it is giving its full support to the recent crackdown by Apple that stated that any iOS developers who were found to be using marketing techniques that were deceptive to the consumer will automatically have its products banned from the App Store and will no longer be able to do business there. The marketing agency, which is a mobile app promotion services leader, has been very open about its beliefs that Apple’s decision is an important one for the entire mobile…

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QRganize aims to bring more order to the world of QR codes

Jesse Collins
QRganize App

As QR codes continue to grow more famous with businesses, the need for adequate sorting and storage mechanisms is becoming more real. QRganize, a new service designed for those using QR codes, aims to help consumers and businesses manage the codes they use. The QRganize app is available for iPhone and doubles as a barcode scanner, which makes scanning and sorting codes easy. Once scanned, the code can be accessed through the QRganize library stored within a smart phone. Using the app, consumers can revisit digital content from codes they…

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