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Mon, Mar 22, 2010 - 11:19 AM EDT — AAPL: 224.35 (+2.1001, +0.94%) | NASDAQ: 2387.46 (+13.05, +0.55%)

Apple tweaks iTunes App Store’s layout to highlight popular apps

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 12:15 PM EDT

"Faced with criticism over the way it's been grouping applications on the digital shelves of the App Store, Apple this week is making some changes to the store's layout aimed at showcasing a broader range of top offerings in each category," Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.

"TouchMeme's Krishna Vegesna tipped AppleInsider off to the overnight design tweak... Apple now highlights the most popular applications on each category page," Oliver reports.

"As part of this new grouping, the Cupertino-based company has also separated the most popular Free Apps -- which previously dominated the most popular listings -- from most popular Paid Apps, breaking each out into separate sidebar modules that flank the general listings for each category," Oliver reports.

Oliver reports, "While Friday's changes may not solve all of developers' problems, Vegesna said he believes Apple 'now truly understands the software as a service model and is enhancing the [App Store] every week (in some cases, multiple times a week)."

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Dec 12, 08 - 01:26 pm Comment from: Dergen Bailey

Er... this is an improvement??? HA!

Go to one of the categories, and use the popup menu to view by Most Popular. It's BROKEN. They now sort alphabetically.

What a buggy pile of...

On another note, I see that Air Share is on a Holiday Sale, down about 30%. If I didn't already have a copy, I'd jump on that.

Dec 12, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Willie G

Its funny, I never shop for apps via iTunes, but rather through the App Store client on the phone itself. These changes being lauded today have been in place in said client since the last update.

@Dergen Bailey,
I was lucky enough to get Air Sharing during its initial free period. Yay!

Dec 12, 08 - 04:45 pm Comment from: all free apps

who cares. I want the "all free apps" link back like it used to be there when the App Store first came out.

Dec 12, 08 - 05:40 pm Comment from: clinicaltechmaster

And it is snappier too!

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