What is ranking criteria for top iPhone apps?

What is the ranking criteria used by iTunes for top iPhone apps -- premium and free? Is it just most downloaded? Also rankings are updated how frequently? Thank you!

"Top" apps are defined by number of downloads. Seems to be updated "live" (it changes more than once a day sometimes, and since it is based on number of downloads, it's probably an automated process).

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I thought that the newest posts from the "Using your MacBook" section always showed up in the top-level MacBook section (here):
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But I have noticed several threads that aren't showing up in the top-level area, even though they have new posts. Has the behavior changed recently??? What is the criteria for getting your post to show up in that area? It seems to be the place where you get the most answers...

The appropriate place for a question about the functionality of the Discussions itself is the Feedback About Discussions forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1076
A quick glance at this forum shows each of those topics have had at least 9 replies in less than 24 hours.
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Steps to take for developing iPhone app

I have IMHO a brilliant idea for an iPhone app (I know, I know, and what else is new?:)
But seriously I want to pursue it. I'm am by no means a programmer of any sort. (However, I'm toying with the idea of studying programming). That said, to get this first baby off the ground I plan to hire a programmer to realize my concept for me. It involves audio, and I will be able to create all the audio content myself(I'm a music/audio professional). I can also create all or most of the necessary graphics/artwork myself (I'm a former graphics pro).
So, how do I start? What do I need to have in place to talk to a programmer? Should I create a dummy using still graphics and my audio content as a demo? I can even make a video demo of how it would work.
What are the best resources for finding a competent (and cool) programmer. Just doing a search yields so much information it's overwhelming. I'd rather work with a creative person as one on one as possible, and not ship it off to some impersonal place. What should I expect to pay?
Lastly, (as a total programmer beginner) is it nuts to think I could learn to program the app myself in a reasonable amount of time given that I have very specific and detailed ideas on how it would work?

If you honestly have to ask whether or not you could do it yourself then you probably can't. Get an NDA and write up a detailed specification of everything you want the application to do, how you want it to be done, and what it should generally look like. Some general UI mock ups are always a plus. Be prepared to be told that certain things cannot (or should not) be done.
Don't hire anyone from rentacoder.com. It is a veritable hotbed of international incompetence (and incoherence) and their service agreement's promises of security and arbitration will be broken in the event that a dispute should arise because there is not a single member of Exhedra Solutions' staff who even knows what a Mac looks like let alone how to test a deliverable on one. They will waste months of time promising you services they have no intention of providing and then ultimately tell you to pick a number between 1 and 10 to decide how much money you should be awarded. They're a joke of a company run by an aging frat boy cougar magnet whose experience begins and ends at Visual Basic and they bank on the fact that 99% of their clientele has no working knowledge of US law and can't sue them--especially not when they give the Florida Secretary of State the address of a vacant lot as their official registered agent for service of process.
Find a real person who lives in your country and speaks your language and contract with them directly. Expect to offer anything in the range of $50-$200/hr depending on the type of work involved and your geographic location. Don't bother with any promises of links on websites, equity shares, profit percentages or portfolio pieces in lieu of payment unless you're talking to some gullible high school kid. These things are all as worthless as they sound.

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Hi,
I'm looking for an iPhone app developer, preferably in the UK, to work with me on a couple of reference apps. Drop me a line if you'd like more information; [email protected]
Cheers
Phil

Possibly Sketchbook Pro or Express from the Mac App store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro-6/id553377898?mt=12
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-express/id404243625?mt=12

I have an idea for an iPhone app that I believe would be marketable. However, I have no talent towards writing software. How does I find a reputable programer that would be will to develop and split proceeds?

I have an idea for an iPhone app that I believe would be marketable. However, I have no talent towards writing software. How does I find a reputable programer that would be will to develop and split proceeds?

Find an app you like. Contact the developer of that app and see if they are interested.

What Is The Criteria For Reloading objects and JSP Pages?

I have a JSP application that consists of many HTML, JSP & JavaBean files.
          Since I am in the middle of the development phase I am making lots of
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          a JavaBean into a class file WebLogic does not reload the updated class.
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BTW, I tried this in 6.1 and it does reload modified classes in
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          redeployment? It can definitely be more convinient than touching 'REDEPLOY'
          file.
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          > Pay attention to what Dimitri said.
          > Set your reloadCheckSecs=0 (check every time).
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          >>I have a JSP application that consists of many HTML, JSP & JavaBean files.
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          >>modifications to the code. I've noticed that much of the time if I recompile
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          >>For
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          >> C:/weblogic/myserver/servletclasses/org/hhmi/award/JavaBean1.class
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          >>Matt
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          >>
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TS1424 How do i get credit for an iPhone app?

How do i get credit for an iPhone app that was billed to me?
The description even said that the app was free that day. I downloaded it once and it showed TWO downloads, with the first one FREE and the second one I got billed for.
It was only $0.99, but I want to know HOW to get a refund! It's all hidden somewhere on their website, apparently.
Tom

You can contact iTunes support here and explain the situation:
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What is the criteria for define GL for profit center

Dear Profit center Guru,
Can guide , what is the business logic to "Choose Additional Balance Sheet and P&L Accounts/Choose Accounts" for profit center. all the Proft Loss accounts should be there? or what kind of PL should be there , and what kind of Balance sheet accounts should be defined for profit center.
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Kick

Hi H.Kick
at Choose Additional Balance Sheet and P&L Accounts/Choose Accounts we define which accounts or account intervals we want to transfer to Profit Center Accounting. It is imperative that we maintain all the GL accounts which need to be transferred to Profit center. Needless to say that if we donu2019t maintain the GL accounts here, the balance will not be transferred to PCA.
This setting is also particularly required, if no profit center is entered for a specific transaction in one of these GL accounts, the system posts to the default profit center for that account interval.
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Hi All,
What is the Use For Top 3 Contributors in the Forums
REgards
Vamsi

Hi,
I think it is purely for information purposes. I do not think anything is actually done with the information as claimed by other posts.
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Whats the SAR rate for the iphone 5?

whats the SAR rate for the iphone 5?

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Charged for Free iPhone Apps?

I just got an iPhone yesterday and I downloaded some free applications from the App Store, but when I went to look at my bank account there was two charges from the App Store. Unless there is some fee for creating an account, these charges are entirely unwarranted as I have not downloaded any applications that are not free.
Can anyone shed some light as to why this might have happened, or point me in the direction of someone who can help me?

Having had 4 charges reversed, I can say with confidence that the appstore has some significant loopholes which developers can exploit.
Here are the issues
1. Developers can change the name of the app at will
2. Apple do not keep a log of the "names" a particular app assumes over time
3. When an app's name is changed by the developer, Apples rewrites all the databases with the new name thus no record is left with the old name
4. Although Apple maintains an unique identifier for every app, that is not visible to the iphone user.
So here is what happened to me.
The developer had a free app by name "A". I had in the past downloaded this app multiple times. A few weeks back developer changed the name of the app to "B" and added a new paid app and gave it the name "A" !!
Last week I went searching in App Store because I had reinstalled my iphone and wanted to get back the my old app called "A". when i searched for it two apps showed up both A and B. while B was free, A was now 4.99. I was confused, so I went back to my past emails from itunes and found the Order receipt from itunes which says I bought app "A" for free. So I assumed that i can buy A free eventhough it now cost 4.99 because I had downloaded it in the past. But Apple sent me a bill for 4.99 because the app I thought was app A was infact a new app and the developer had secretly changed the name of old app A to app B.
More interesting stuff happened when I disputed the charge. All the apple agents I spoke to was disputing my claim that in the past I had purchased app A for free because their records show that the app I purchased for free was app B. Now I asked apple representative Patrick from app store billing to send me the old receipt and surprisingly apple has erased the receipt with the new data, so in place of app A it now shows app B.
You see were it goes.
So if i want to make money, I should just buy a fairely popular free app from a developer, change its name to something obsure. Now release a useless highly priced paid app and give it the old name of the free app. Now clueless customers will redownload this app thinking they wont be charged since they already had it will be stuck with the bill.
Apple u need to fix it.!!!

Question regarding business plans for an iphone app

Hi everyone, please forgive me for possibly posting this in the wrong area.
I have a couple of questions I'd like to have clarified regarding the service agreements for development of iphone apps.
I need to approach management at work, with an explanation/answer of how the royalty process works in regards to providing a free application to access a service we charge for.
If we develop an app, put it on the iphone store for free, but the users need to pay a monthly subscription service to fully use the program (via our website which uses paypay), does Apple take, or want a cut in the tiny profits, from having the program hosted for free in the app store?
This is the current scenario:
Clients sign up for a 'lite' type of usage of the site/service. If they want more features, they then use PayPal to update their subscription.
I guess two questions now... Firstly, can you use PayPal for monthly subscriptions in Apps?
Secondly, Would Apple want, or be authorised to take a cut on a free app, that is assisting in income for a company.
Are there 3rd party or custom agreements made? What if the app was charged for in the first place? Would that cover everything, and the rest of the income 'our business only'?
I hope this isn't too complicated or confusing, but I would like to be pointed in the direction of some good documentation with values and figures to back up the answer.
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Steve

Hi Allan,
I tried called them. The girl I spoke to was hard to understand, and I'm not sure if she understood me correctly anyway.
She basically said "no" about Apple wanting a cut, however I will wait and see other's thoughts on here.
Steve

What is Apple doing to fix iPhone app failure

This problem looks like a bad MS conflict error... One of the biggest reasons I got away from PC.
I have a new (now 4 days old as of this posting) 3G iPhone with all updates. It has been registered with Apple and synced with my iTunes. I have loaded free apps on my iPhone with the reasoning being that if the free apps don't work, I surly will not buy an app from the designer of a non working free app.
I have done the reset and reboot, which "some" of the apps did work fine. But all, non standard iPhone apps, crash on startup following a sync section with iTunes.
Without claiming to be a programer or even a technician, it appears that the cause of the down loaded app failure stems from the sync with iTunes and maybe poor app design. Anyone from the PC world will recognize this as a "conflict error".
At the iPhone introduction Keynote address, I feel Steve Jobs lead me to believe that is would not happen with the 3rd party development of apps. It's just not the "Apple" way. I maybe wrong in that it is not an actual "conflict error" but something else, still, it is not what I have come to expect from Apple and hope that this problem is not a sign of the future with Apple. It also appears that better "quality assurance" is needed with app development and iPhone syncing.
My question is:
What, if anything, is Apple doing to solve this massive problem with downloaded apps and the iPhone and syncing with iTunes?
If someone could show me a link with an Apple reply to solving this problem besides reset/reboot/reload I would be a little more confident in knowing that I didn't waste good money and "TIME" in getting the iPhone.
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Going to the local Apple store this morning...
My problem is not uncommon as the board is showing signs of this happening to many others as well. That is where I found the restore and reboot information to try to solve the issue of crashing apps.
I understand that Apple will not "give away the cow", but letting iPhone users know that the problems they are having are being addressed by Apple is a little more comforting than nothing at all. Other wise, all the apps in world are useless and even more importantly worthless, if a person has to reset/reboot/reload just to get them to work.
IF Apple can not address the basic problems with todays iPhone apps, why should one believe that the iPhone 3.0 OS is any better? Using a PC comparison, which is better, XP or Vista. If the current iPhone OS of 2.2. what ever is not working that well (as related to down loaded apps and iTunes), will OS 3.0 be any better?
The waste of time I refer to is in going to the apps store and downloading the apps... Again why by apps if the free version does not work?

What is the criteria for selecting a license if multiple licenses exist

Hello experts,
If multiple licenses exist for an order in GTS, what is the criteria to decide which license will finally be selected?
The log says "Number of import/export licenses that could be affected: 3" but it finally picks up one.
Does it do it sequentially using the internal license number?
We have a scenario where we are upgarding from version 7 to version 10, and there is one license (say A) which was created in the older version and copied to the new system after upgrade. There is also a new license (say B) directly created in the new version (with same selection criteria as A)
Now when an order is created, both licenses are "affected" but it picks up the license B created in the new version.
If the system was picking license based on internal number it should have picked up license A which was created in earlier version (as that had a lower internal number sequentially). If I expire license B and recheck the order, then it correctly picks up A.
So what is the actual criteria to select a license and in this case was License A not given priority because it was created in older version and then copied to new version as part of upgrade?

As far as I can see from a quick look at the code, there is no attempt to place the determined licences in any particular order. Since they are selected from table /SAPSLL/LCLIC, it seems reasonable that they would be selected according to field GUID_LCLIC. Within one system, the GUIDs remain in order of creation date/time; however I don't know GUIDs are formed in relation to different systems. My bet is that if you check in SE16, your "early" licence actually has a higher GUID value than the recent ones.
Please check, and see if I'm right.
Regards,
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What is involved in making a iphone app

Hey guys,
Just curious, im trying to find out how much it would cost if i wanted to make a iphone app im concidering the following things.
A apple computer
B The knowledge
C The developement software
So can someone give me a example of how much it would cost to make a iphone app?\
Thanks in advance,
Verbin

Best to start here
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/
It's going to cost $99 to join the Developer Programme for a start.

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