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Apple Hires Adobe CTO – Kevin Lynch

Kevin Lynch, the Chief Technology Officer at Adobe is now moving to Apple and will be working as the VP of Technology under the current head of hardware. Adobe announced that they are not looking to replace this position as of now.

Apple blocks devs from updating screenshots till update

In order to combat excessive bait and switch scammers trying to promote their apps by posting fake screenshots immediately after their apps are approved for the App Store, Apple has now stopped allowing developers from updating the screenshots until a legitimate binary update is posted accompanying them.

Apple announces 40 billion app downloads

Apple has announced that it has reached a milestone of more than 40 billion apps being downloaded on its platform, with more than 20 billion in the previous year itself. Over 7 billion dollars have been paid to app developers by the company till now.

Android catches up to iOS with its 700000 apps

Android has finally beaten Apple’s iOS in the number of apps available on each platform. The statistics released by Google and Apple indicate that both the platforms now have nearly the same number of apps available for their users. This indicates how fast Google has managed to catch up with Apple and it still has a bright future ahead.