Apple Adds Ability to Gift App Store Applications

[magpie maniac]

'Gift this App'? Shouldn't it be 'Give this App'?

"Gift" can also be used as a verb.

 

[theBB]

The only thing that keeps me coming back to MacRumors is the anticipation of one day seeing 128 positives and 73 negatives on a story titled "Steve Jobs cures cancer, brokers permanent peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and discovers a pollution-free alternative energy source that costs pennies per year."

Let's see... This would harm health care, oil and defense related industries, which are significant for our economy. That would certainly bring in many negative votes.

 

[ShiftyPig]

'Gift this App'? Shouldn't it be 'Give this App'?

Supposedly "gift" is a verb now too. I'm not much of a fan of it either.

Finally though.... no more trying to buy $9.99 iTunes gift cards.

 

[jzuena]

When they say "not to be used for the iPod Touch OS", do they mean you can't send/receive gifts on a touch or that you just can't gift the 2.0/3.0/etc major upgrade versions of the touch OS?

 

[cublah]

Does anybody else think this maybe open for abuse? Devs could gift to a lot of people and watch their app go up the charts.

 

[justinfreid]

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I've always wanted to do exactly this.
First person to follow me on Twitter and mention @JustinFreid with a link to a $.99 app gets it as a gift.

 

[Becordial]

Nice!

Now I can "gift" myself some apps from my wife's account with that gift card she still hasn't used up...

Good idea, but it doesn't seem to work, as for sending gifts it wants to use credit card instead of using gift card credit. This is a severe and preposterous limitation.

Fix it properly Apple and let us use whatever credit we have.

 

[justinfreid]

And the winner is...

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I've always wanted to do exactly this.
First person to follow me on Twitter and mention @JustinFreid with a link to a $.99 app gets it as a gift.

@SethBoy wins Talking Carl from the App Store!

 

[Jenkins12]

'Gift this App'? Shouldn't it be 'Give this App'?

Well yea but Gift makes it sounds like a present, which better represents giving something to someone. Awesome idea Apple, now who wants to send me gifts? lol

 

[gnagy]

Does anybody else think this maybe open for abuse? Devs could gift to a lot of people and watch their app go up the charts.

I was thinking that exact same thing. What prevents me from gifting my app to 1000 people on the same day to boost my app to the top 100 list?

It would only cost $300 since $700 whole be paid back to me. It seems like that's a low cost to push the app to the top 100 list.

I'm not sure this is a positive change unless gifts don't matter for app ranking.

 

[cublah]

I was thinking that exact same thing. What prevents me from gifting my app to 1000 people on the same day to boost my app to the top 100 list?

It would only cost $300 since $700 whole be paid back to me. It seems like that's a low cost to push the app to the top 100 list.

I'm not sure this is a positive change unless gifts don't matter for app ranking.

If it didn't count against ranking then that would be a little unfair to the legitimate developer who made the actual sales and it would make a mockery of the App rankings.

 

[Becordial]

Why doesn't Apple let us gift things like movies, albums and so on using credit we already have?

It's a stupid rule to prevent that.

 

[Ricanlegend]

The only thing that keeps me coming back to MacRumors is the anticipation of one day seeing 128 positives and 73 negatives on a story titled "Steve Jobs cures cancer, brokers permanent peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and discovers a pollution-free alternative energy source that costs pennies per year."

Yea everybody that voted negative will just say what took him soo long

 

[chainprayer]

Is it just me or is this feature now gone?

 

[pEAcEmAKeR99]

Don't think it's really a big deal, sorry.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Is it just me or is this feature now gone?

Nope still there!