Earlier today, reviews began circulating the Application Store was pushing corrupt binaries to iOS and Mac customers, leading to constant crashes from the affected applications. Marco Arment, of Instapaper fame, was among the first to see and incredibly vocal -- getting the problem towards the attention of numerous in media and also at Apple. Their email list of affected applications is fairly staggering, including such much talked about game titles as Angry Wild birds Space, Yahoo! Search, Google Readers and, obviously, Instapaper. The amount of designers affected now tops 115, so we'd postpone on individuals updates. For that first several hrs Apple was mother around the problem, however it has finally acknowledged the issue in the support forums as well as arrived at to designers via email. Accusations appear to become the FairPlay DRM is at the bottom, but until we've official word from Apple we'll avoid lounging the culprit at its ft. Cupertino is working (we assume relentlessly) on the fix, that will hopefully be shipped sooner, instead of later.
Update: Apple has confirmed to AllThingsD the problem was because of a "server that produced DRM code" and it has been fixed. Affected clients are encouraged to remove the corrupted applications and redownload them.
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