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Apple rectifies App Store sorting
A while back we noted that there some shady practices going on at the App Store. Basically certain developers were putting spaces or other characters in the front of their application names so that they would come up on the first page in the alphabetical sort at the iTunes App Store. According to Infinite Loop Apple has quietly rectified the problem.It now seems that if you go to the App Store the default listing is by release date. However, if you change it to Name you'll find that the first page basically has what it's supposed to have. Right now displaying all iPhone apps (iTunes link) starts with the ebook 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Abacus second. It's nice to see that Apple has been proactive in taking care of this.
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Big John said 4:21PM on 7-17-2008
...and all that rage a few days ago in the blogosphere for nothing.
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OmniGeno said 4:26PM on 7-17-2008
All that rage? Well, it was interesting to talk about anyway. Plus, they did do something about it after all, right?
Big John said 4:55PM on 7-17-2008
The amount of anger over the issue seemed to me like it was much ado about nothing.
Macroy said 4:28PM on 7-17-2008
Isn't this more reactive than proactive?
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Chris said 4:33PM on 7-17-2008
They can't get how to get the phones on the shelf figured out...I doubt that the idea of developers dishonestly naming their names of apps in the store ever crossed their minds.
Craig said 4:33PM on 7-17-2008
That's great, NOW WHERE'S TAPULOUS' FRIEND BOOK? I WANT I WANT! I NEED I NEED!
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Joshua Ochs said 4:39PM on 7-17-2008
Hopefully what they're doing is manually verifying the application names before approving them, and fixing blatantly misleading ones. Given that they only have a few hundred apps right now, I'm not surprised (but still quite pleased) that they managed to fix it quickly.
Had they waited until it was the equivalent of MacUpdate or VersionTracker...
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noza said 5:05PM on 7-17-2008
I'm glad they fixed that. Now, how about bringing back Download Counts?
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tim said 5:35PM on 7-17-2008
Am I the only one shocked that they didn't strip white space from the beginning and the end of strings in the first place? I mean, I have no idea how the uploading of apps went on the user end, but whenever I develop anything it is common practice to strip out the unnecessary empty spaces.
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fishbert said 7:01PM on 7-17-2008
I wish they had... a few apps in my sync list still have an ugly extra space between the app name and the check box.
(yeah, I'm anal like that sometimes)
Squid7085 said 7:31PM on 7-17-2008
I had a feeling Apple would take care of this pretty quickly.
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alex cutter said 9:36PM on 7-17-2008
Someone doesn't know the meaning of "proactive".
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Kit Cowan said 11:39PM on 7-17-2008
Makes me think that developers will just start thinking a little more before naming their programs. Kinda reminds me of the Yellow Pages. ABC Auto Repair, 123 Computing, etc. If the rule is alphabetical, then look out of a bunch of "A" named apps.
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umijin said 10:56AM on 7-18-2008
Did they really fix it? What pi$$e$ me off is the 'new' app listing doesn't actually have the NEWEST apps, just ones that Apple thinks you should look at.
The only way to see new apps is to select all iphone/ipod touch apps and sort by date. But then again, maybe this isn't all of them.
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