Apple App Store gets new ‘Browse by Category’ section for Apps


Apple has made app browsing simplified by adding ‘Browse by Category’ section to both the desktop and iOS App Store. The introduction of this section enables users to easily click on a certain category. Prior to this, users had to ad to select their chosen category from a drop-down list in the top-left of the App Store .

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Available in the Featured section of both the app stores, the section shows visually attractive display which boasts of a wide variety of curated app collections. The App store also gets Featured Apps, Best New Apps, Collections and various other category-specific tabs. Earlier only five App Store categories viz, games, kids, education, food and Newsstand were curated

A ton of changes are coming to iOS 8 that will feature new ‘Explore’ tab, trending searches and related searches. The latest move from Apple is aimed at improving app discovery at the App store. Since its inception in 2008, the App Store now has 1.2m apps, and attracts 300m visitors a week, having generated more than 75bn app downloads.

Via:Mac Rumors


Author: Sneha Bokil

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