Apple Begins Offering Free Content in 'Apple Store' iOS App with 'Color Zen'

[MacRumors]

Following an update to its Apple Store iOS app late last month, Apple has now begun offering the reported free iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore content through the app (via Flo's Weblog [Google translation]).

As in the leaked sample screenshot, the initial offering is Color Zen, a puzzle game typically priced at $0.99. The free content is accessed by visiting any of the pages for individual Apple retail stores in the app. Users do not need to be physically present in the store for the offer to appear.

Codes for Color Zen distributed through the app are valid through August 27.

Article Link: Apple Begins Offering Free Content in 'Apple Store' iOS App with 'Color Zen'

 

[j.applewood]

Worth downloading?

 

[nathanlloyd]

Bah, US only

 

[Mikeyde1989]

This works well! In Australia here and I just got my free copy !

What excites me is the thought of other expensive apps coming at a discount or entirely free just to be clear.

 

[natd1993]

WOOO FREE STUFF!

 

[9947273]

This doesn't seem to work in the UK, annoying

 

[Goftrey]

I've always found the Apple Store app to be pretty hilarious.

''Hey Jon, thanks for blowing your life savings on a phone that we're going to indirectly call useless in 3 years time & drop all support for. In the mean time - why not spend your wife's life savings on some more of our stuff?''

 

[bmunge]

I've always found the Apple Store app to be pretty hilarious.

''Hey Jon, thanks for blowing your life savings on a phone that we're going to indirectly call useless in 3 years time & drop all support for. In the mean time - why not spend your wife's life savings on some more of our stuff?''

If your life savings is a few hundred dollars Apple products might not be for you.

 

[Mwongozi]

Bah, US only

This doesn't seem to work in the UK, annoying

Works fine for me in the UK.

 

[boshii]

When I tap the green button, it goes to the app store but I get an error saying cannot connect to itunes store.

I'm on iOS 7 beta 4. Wonder if that's the problem.

 

[BMcCoy]

Same here - all works until the redeem page in iTunes, then errors.

Edit - iOS 6

 

[Reason077]

Color Zen = Colors having sex

This is said to be the game that inspired the iOS 7 user interface. Get it now!

 

[virginblue4]

When I tap the green button, it goes to the app store but I get an error saying cannot connect to itunes store.

I'm on iOS 7 beta 4. Wonder if that's the problem.

I'm also having the same problem. I'm in the UK and also running iOS 7 beta 4.

 

[Gus Van Der Mee]

This is disrespectful. Just because i live somewhere else i'm a lesser customer to Apple? Bad move.

 

[virginblue4]

I've always found the Apple Store app to be pretty hilarious.

''Hey Jon, thanks for blowing your life savings on a phone that we're going to indirectly call useless in 3 years time & drop all support for. In the mean time - why not spend your wife's life savings on some more of our stuff?''

What?

This is disrespectful. Just because i live somewhere else i'm a lesser customer to Apple? Bad move.

It's not disrespectful. They obviously just haven't rolled it out to everywhere yet.

 

[Reason077]

This doesn't seem to work in the UK, annoying

It works for me in the UK.

 

[virginblue4]

This doesn't seem to work in the UK, annoying

It works for me in the UK.

Are you both running iOS 6 or iOS 7?

 

[notabadname]

Why no Store App for iPad?

This really makes me wonder more about the absence of an iPad version of the Apple Store App. Why wouldn't Apple see the potential for using this App, natively, on an iPad?

 

[Gus Van Der Mee]

What?



It's not disrespectful. They obviously just haven't rolled it out to everywhere yet.

Apple store is only available in countries where Apple has *shocker* STORES. I'm currently not living in one of those countries.


Disrespectful.

 

[Battlefield Fan]

This is disrespectful. Just because i live somewhere else i'm a lesser customer to Apple? Bad move.

Oh come on... The world doesn't revolve around you...

 

[JAT]

When I tap the green button, it goes to the app store but I get an error saying cannot connect to itunes store.

I'm on iOS 7 beta 4. Wonder if that's the problem.

I get this all the time with links to the App Store. And I am not on a beta. Just try again. It's something like it scans your network connection for .000001 seconds and if there's a hesitation at all, it returns this error.

 

[Menel]

I'm also having the same problem. I'm in the UK and also running iOS 7 beta 4.

Second time worked for me, iOS7b4.

 

[Gus Van Der Mee]

Oh come on... The world doesn't revolve around you...

It doesn't revolve around Apple either. I pay same money as everyone else and living in Europe even more in many cases.

This is disrespectful.

 

[JAT]

Apple store is only available in countries where Apple has *shocker* STORES. I'm currently not living in one of those countries.


Disrespectful.

I'm not going to say you're wrong, but that is pretty much how life works. I don't think my local electric company offers you anything, either, they can't.

 

[arkmannj]

When I tap the green button, it goes to the app store but I get an error saying cannot connect to itunes store.

I'm on iOS 7 beta 4. Wonder if that's the problem.

I'm receiving the same error message, and I'm also iOS 7 b4.

Note: I'm on ATT LTE 3dots/bars of signal.

update: Tried & retried about a dozen times and I still get the same error