Apple today announced it’s amending the App Store guideline that banned apps created using templates and other app generation services. When the company revised its policies earlier this year, the move was meant to reduce the number of low-quality apps and spam. But the decision ended up impacting a much wider market. Read More
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A fraudulent Cuphead game briefly appeared in the App Store
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Apple recently allowed a fraudulent $4.99 Cuphead app to appear in the App Store.
The mobile gaming site Touch Arcade first spotted the fake app and reported its existence as a “surprise” iOS launch. However, Cuphead’s developer, Studio MDHR, later announced on Twitter that the iOS app was an “impostor.” The real game is still only available on Microsoft Windows and Xbox consoles.
There is a Cuphead imposter app on the iOS store — this is a scam. We are working on removing the fraudulent app ASAP!
— Studio MDHR (@StudioMDHR) December 18, 2017
When we searched the App Store for the fake game, we found that the fake Cuphead iOS app appeared to have been removed. Read more…
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Apple’s App Store now lets you pre-order iOS apps and games before they launch
Apple has quietly allowed developers to make their apps available for pre-order. It’s a basic feature — as Android fanatics will point out — but nevertheless one that has been missing from the App Store. Upcoming apps will now be allowed to list in the App Store as far out as 90 days ahead of their launch and as close two days before. This applies to new apps not updates… Read More
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Apple launched a new feature that lets you pre-order from the App Store.
Announced on Monday, the change allows developers to make new iOS 11 apps available for pre-order up to 90 days before release.
Compared to the App Store’s overhaul that Apple revealed in September, it’s not a huge change, and while most folks probably won’t be too excited to pre-order messaging, fitness or photo apps, this could be big news for game developers.
Apple’s iOS 11 App Store update featured a new tab just for games (in fact, it’s now the only category with its own tab), so it’s safe to say they’re a priority for the platform. Games like Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, with its immense hype and staggered release date, would have been a perfect contender for pre-orders. Up ahead, the highly anticipated 2018 release of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — a new augmented reality mobile game created by Warner Bros. and Niantic (the creators of the hit mobile game Pokémon Go) — could prove a prime candidate for the pre-order tool. Read more…
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A fake version of popular wallet for cryptocurrency Ethereum, MyEtherWallet, is currently being sold in Apple’s App Store.
The app is created by a developer called Nam Le, with no ties to the makers of the original MyEtherWallet, which currently exists only as a browser app.
On Sunday, MyEtherWallet confirmed on Twitter that they’re not the makers of the appTechCrunch first reported the news on Monday.
This is NOT US. We have file reports and emailed and reported. Would appreciate the communities assistance in getting these scamtards out of our lives.
PS: We are #Foss4Lyfe https://t.co/SmI8cqNvxA
— MyEtherWallet.com (@myetherwallet) December 10, 2017 Read more…
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