Reading up on App Store

This guide provides best practices and resources for creating effective App Store assets like screenshots, app previews, and creative elements that clearly communicate an app's value while meeting Apple's policies and design standards.

AI‑generated 'vibecoded' apps are rapidly populating the App Store, yet user enthusiasm remains tepid, questioning the benefit for Apple’s ecosystem.

Lumara is a dashboard app displaying live NASA sun imagery, moon phase data, and space weather events for mobile and desktop.

Chinese AI companies like ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are racing to build domestic coding agents, while developers bypass geoblocks to access Western tools like Cursor.

The article argues that because AI makes app creation and cloning nearly free, subscription pricing will become unsustainable.

Apple's services gross margin hit 76.5% and overall gross margin 48.2%, both record highs, despite widespread pundit pessimism.

OpenAI's choice to report weekly active users instead of monthly active users masks low retention and saturation, inflating perceived growth.