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App Store Bug Corrupts Binaries; Angry Birds Crash

Posted by timothy on from the now-they're-really-angry dept.

First time accepted submitter bargainsale writes "Many recent updates from Apple's App store are crashing immediately, including Instapaper. Instapaper's creator, Marco Arment, thinks this is due to corrupt binaries being distributed. As Angry Birds Space is among those affected, there is some hope that Apple may acknowledge the problem and fix it ..."

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  1. This. by kiriath · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to RUIN my workday =\ How can I work without my Angry Birds?

  2. Another Apple first by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    iOS - the first operating system with package management that doesn't run hash-checks on installer packages to check for corruption. That's right, Apple did it first!

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. App-arently fixed by k(wi)r(kipedia) · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the linked blog by app author Marco Arment:

    I emailed App Review less than an hour after the update went live and yelled about it on Twitter. About two hours after the update went live, a correct, functional version of it started being distributed on reinstalls. As far as I know, the problem hasn't recurred since then.

    I haven't yet received a response from App Review, so I don't know whether the fix was because I made noise, or simply because time passed, which may, for instance, expire a cache with the bad data.

    He now just wants Apple to acknowledge that there was a problem.

  4. If the publisher makes the last good apk available by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why Apple and Android need a good way for you to easily revert to a previous version.

    Android already has this. Mainstream Android devices support distribution of application packages (.apk) on the application publisher's web site.

    (And no, you don't need a hosts file to get this APK.)

  5. Re:What's the difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simple: package managers are for filthy Linux users. No cool, hip Apple connoisseur would want to be associated with these social outcasts.

    If you think I am joking you're only half right. Remember the outrage when Instagram came out on that disgusting Android thingy. Good times :D

  6. Re:Oh Noez.. by Higgs+Bosun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Angry Birds crashing users' iPhones? Must be from the Russian app store, it's normally the user that crashes Angry Birds into things.