For several days the Apple's application market, the AppStore , seems to be suffering from some kind of serious problem, damaging some of the applications it hosts, including the latest installment of the Angry Birds, the tool Instapaper and another hundredof games and applications of all kinds A failure that would occur when update these applications, causing the forced closure of them both in the portable devices of this brand as in Mac computersSomething that has managed to infuriate developers around the world who are affected by the operation and number of downloadsof your apps published in this marketplace.
The developers themselves are the ones who have sounded the alarm by receiving thousands of emails, messages through their accounts in which social networks and bad scores on iTunes by disgruntled users who saw their applications stop working after updating themA bug that seems to prevent the starting of the application, closing automatically in the case of iPhoneand iPad, and informing that said application is damaged and must bedownloaded again on computers of Apple
But the displeasure of the developers has not been left in the bad scores and messages from dissatisfied users. To make matters worse, the people of Apple turned a deaf ear to complaints and claims. Until today. After three days of problems, those of Cupertino have decided to recognize the problem of theirapp market and have posted on the developer forum the following statement:We are aware of the issue of apps crashing after being updated. We are currently working to resolve the issue. Stay tuned for updates
They have also e-mailed a somewhat unclear message to the developers.In it, it indicates to them that users who find a problem after updating any of their applications can go to the attention pageention for iTunes customers, namely: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ . Although they also indicate, in said email, that if the problem is finally found in the application, and not in the download platform, the user will be sent directly to the developer Of the same.
According to the specialized media, who collect statements and opinions from some developers, the problem would clearly be in Apple's land In fact , it is believed that the fault would come from Apple's DRM, or what is the same, the management of the digital rights of the applications A technology of control than those of Cupertino have called FairPlay (fair play), and that must not be being well added to applicationsthat users update.Thus, the error prevents these digital rights from being validated, forcing the application to close as soon as it is started.
The problem seems to have affected globally, and, although they are already working on it, it would not be 100% solved. It seems that the worst part falls on the developers, who are bombarded by complaints from users and with a feeling of helplessness at not being able to resolve the situation. In addition, the quality policies of the Apple app market are being blamed, which prevent publish an application instantly, requiring to pass a quality test which may taketwo weeks term. All this added to the fear of losing users, downloads and their p position in the iTunes charts due to bad reviews.
Update:
It seems that Apple has confirmed to the specialized media AllThingsD that the bug resided in the server in charge of generating the cDRM codes that are added to the applications when downloaded to control digital rights . In addition, through a brief message they state hhave solved the problem, and hope that it will not happen again. Affected users can reredownload their apps so they can launch them without any problem.
