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Submitting to Amazon’s new Appstore

 

A few days ago Amazon opened the doors to their Amazon Appstore Developer Portal.

As we have seen before that adding your app to any appstore can be a painful process. WIP has run Android appstore submitting competitions to see which appstores make it easiest and fastest for developers to submit and WIP has also experienced some bad forms and error messages in a lot of appstores. Well I wanted to take a closer look to see if Amazon has made this process any easier as they are predicted to be another big player in…

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Christmas Bonus: January App Store Report Out Now!

Thanks to the upcoming Christmas and New Year's holidays, we're on a slightly accelerated schedule with the latest WIP App Store Report, a monthly report based on our App Store Catalog, the most comprehensive collection of information on mobile app stores available -- so think of this as an early present!

The number of stores in the catalog grew by only one during the month, edging up to 110 now. But it's the growth during the year that we want to focus on.…

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Fun With App Stores: Bad Forms and Error Messages

A few months ago, I went on an app store placement spree in preparation for the Android App Store Competition in Berlin (promise I won't mention it anymore!). The results were telling, in terms of the variance of the usability between stores, and some of the rather uninspired error messages they returned:

"Please provide an interesting and accurate description" -- Isn't it my right to putt something dull if I do not want people to spend time reading the description and download the app instead? "Illegal characters in description! Use English and numbers only" -- Something any…

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