Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Apple to Add More Zombie Apps


Since Apple first launched its App Store six years ago, developers have uploaded more than 1.6 million apps, with nearly 60,000 apps added each month, according to a new report by a mobile analytics company called adjust.

With such a high number of apps available, how can developers make sure their apps are being discovered and downloaded? They can't, the report says -- resulting in hundreds of thousands of so-called "zombie apps," which are defined as "apps that are available, but appear to have no life in them."

To avoid being classified as a "zombie," an app must rank somewhere on any one of the nearly 40,000 Top Charts available multiple times during an evaluation period of one month.

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