App Store glitches and folorn hope
Thursday, November 05, 2009
When I check the App Store this morning I almost spat my tea all over the Mac.
Clocks was ranked no.4 in the US Utility category.
Alas, it was not to be, turns out there was some sort of glitch at Apple HQ.
For a while, though, rumour was rife amongst developers that Apple had changed the rules and was employing some different algorithm when calculating the ranking system.
That’s not good.
Unfortunately, it speaks volumes about the lack of trust that now seems to exist between Apple and iPhone devs that anyone gave it any credence at all.
So far, there hasn’t been any communication from Cupertino about what happened, so we’ll wait and see if any explanation is offered. Frankly if people have lost money (and they will have) then someone should be on the blower double quick wringing their hands in abject apology.
Meanwhile we’ll see if this has any effect on Clocks’ sales.