'Apple is corrupting App Store downloads', warn angry devs

Re: From a company who are regarded (with some justice) as master marketeers it seems to me....

@dubno

"US staff being on holiday"

It's not just Apple. Yesterday I was getting appalling download speeds when attempting to download Wordpress and despite several attempts didn't get a full copy.

Re: From a company who are regarded (with some justice) as master marketeers it seems to me....

Dear Field Marshal Von Krakenfart,

I have this crazy idea that we live in an internationalized world and we have to adjust a bit to each other's holidays and customs. For example I deal a lot with China and when they have holidays, man they take them seriously, so I calmly wait for their replies.

So to me it's a not a foreign concept that Apple HQ wasn't available for a statement yesterday. They had engineers on the case, which is what really matters anyway.

Re: At least the pay their developers on time

Why do you always do that? This has nothing to do with Google, everybody has already said what they wanted to on that forum but somehow an Apple fuck up means someone else has to get dragged in. Every single time you or Metavisor or one of the other blinkered Apple fans always has to respond to legitimate criticism about your beloved company with 'But M$ do this' or 'Google do that' or 'Why is it always Apple that are picked on?'

This is down to Apple, no one else. It doesn't matter what problems other companies have had or have caused as this issue has nothing to do with it. It's like a religious fanatic who when presented with evidence that goes against their belief either try to ignore it, claim it isn't true or warp it to somehow fit into the belief structure.

Apple are not perfect - get over it and stop crying like a baby whenever somebody manages to poke a hole through the shiny and shows you just how rotten that Apple is inside.

Re: Good Ol' Apple

AC don't you really get it? No one is apologising for Apple. I was criticising the snarky, unwarranted, content and tone of your - or whatever other AC's - comment.

As for the problem, in Marco's case it was fixed in 2 hours after he reported it. Marco is very well known in the dev community, I'm sure by now most developers will know there's been a problem. Yes, it would be good if Apple gets in touch with all affected developers quickly, but:

1) They have to figure out who was affected, what the problem was and how they propose to solve it

2) As always there's going to be legal proceedings against Apple over this, so whatever they say has to go through their legal dept first

So give them time. Just like everyone else - Amazon, Google, etc - gets time to make statements when they're at fault.

Re: Having a distribution monopoly...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/nov/22/android-paid-apps-revenues

The figures thus far seem to back up the idea that iOS users are far more likely to buy apps.. It would seem that between 2008 and 2011 (both app stores launched at roughly the same time), the iOS app store made over ten times the money made by the Android app store.

I think the problem Android has actually has nothing to do with the OS itself, but more that a lot of people get Android phones for free, and aren't necessarily interested in it's apps. Where they are interested in the apps, they expect them to be free, after all, they paid nothing for the phone. In essence, they have been conditioned to expect free stuff. Google claim 800 million activations a day, but I'd be interested to see how many of those users actually use the "smart" aspect of their smartphone, and aren't just using it for calls.

iOS is different. The only iOS device you can get for "free" is the iPhone, and that is only "free" if you pay a ridiculous amount of money on line rental each month (>£70 on average), so right from the start, the iOS user is conditioned to pay for stuff.

While what you say about a product being worth what people are willing to pay for it is true, by and large, it's wroth remembering that over the years, there have been several surveys comparing the Android and iOS App Stores, and they have all come to the same conclusion. That iOS users are more likely to pay for an app than Android users.

Re: corrupted downloads

iOS always checks for the signing key at runtime, not install. I'm not 100% sure why, but my gut feeling is it does it for security reasons.

In any case since it checks at runtime it would be a bit pointless to check at install time too.

FYI the apps in question were failing with "AppleFairplayTextCrypterSession::fairplayOpen() failed, error -42110"

which is a DRM error.

Maybe now that they've had this problem they'll change that and show a more relevant message.