App Store – Appotography

With almost 1 million of applications available in the now 5-year old App Store and with competition gone wild in the meantime, with several companies ready to pay thousands to professionals with the tools to help them rank high in the charts, it has become an extremely tough job for independent developers with a tight budget to make their efforts worthwhile. If for a few developers, especially for those who started years ago, the App Store is still a gold mine or, at any rate, a valuable asset, for the majority it’s very hard to get noticed and to make more than a few bucks per app published. There are so many sites dedicated to discussing apps today; reviewers that are less disorganized than I am are very efficient with offering information timely. But external sources influence sales differently and user ratings are still one of the most precious resources for developers.

App Store Rating
Before starting this site, I was constantly reading other people’s reviews in the App Store when making some of my purchases. Continue reading “Why Leaving a Review in the App Store Makes a Difference”

If you have updated your iPhone to iOS 6, you have probably noticed that, among other changes, the way you can now interact with the App Store is quite different from before. You have probably also had the chance (not) to appreciate the absolute, mind-boggling slowness of the App Store after said update. Not only connecting to the store as soon as you launch the app, but also checking your updates and searching for stuff takes so long you could go to Easter Island, make tea and come back and your screen would probably still be “loading”. The issue is caused by the Genius for apps feature that is activated by default after updating the iOS.

Genius for Apps
Do you feel that this Genius feature is actually more of a bother than something you will thoroughly enjoy using? What can I say? You have my sympathy. But now for the bright side: deactivating Genius to start browsing the App Store from within your iPhone again without enduring the longest loading times is actually very easy. Most of you must have figured out how to do it by now. However, some might be having a harder time to find the right settings, and for the users that are still struggling we have this quick guide.

So you want to deactivate Genius? All right: just follow these steps, this is how you do it. Continue reading “How To Disable Genius And Make The App Store Fun Again”