App Store Bug Appears to Rank Apple’s Apps Higher Than Others
Something odd is happening with the App Store’s rankings these days, according to a report from Sensor Tower, an App Store-optimization firm, as spotted by TechCrunch: Apple is apparently using the Top Charts section of the iPhone App Store to push its own apps such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, and iTunes U. What TechCrunch...
App Store’s “Top Charts” Section Now Shows Only Top 150 Apps
Just ahead of next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple has made a significant change to the "Top Charts" section in the iOS App Store, showing only the Top 150 Paid, Free and Top Grossing apps, while previously it featured the Top 300 on iPhone, and Top 1,500 on iPad, as pointed out by TechCrunch. As a result,...
How Scammers Manipulate Apple’s Charts and Earn Tens of Thousands a Day
Have you ever downloaded one of the best free or paid apps, according to Apple's Top Charts, and then wondered how that crap ended up being among the best? TechCrunch has a great story about how this can happen. Yes, you guessed it; it was a scam. Many of us wondered how Flappy Bird reached...