Last week, Amazon launched its own app store for Android OS – Amazon AppStore. It has turned out that it is just not a replication of the existing Android Market with additional features like AppBrain, but a great independent project that has been designed to provide users with high quality content. Moreover good developers will surely get a convenient platform where they can make sure that their products will not be lost in the masses of other poor-quality apps.
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A lucky individual has downloaded the ten billionth app from the Apple App Store, Apple says.
The ten billionth app download from the Apple App Store carries with it a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card prize.
Recently, Apple announced that the ten billionth download from its app store was nearing. The company put up a big counter on its site and said that a lucky downloader will be winning the said price.
However, observers noted then that Apple has seemed to lessen its price for the promotion since …

Rémi Denis-Courmont has defended himself and his colleagues at VideoLAN, the developer of popular VLC Player, after Apple Inc. has decided to banish the said program from its app store.
“On January 7th, Apple removed VLC media player from its application store for iDevices. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the AppStore terms of use is resolved – the hard way. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone, given the precedents,” …