(Credit: GoodReader)
Apple's App Store might be causing some trouble for application users.
Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, reported yesterday that he was "deluged" earlier this week by users who had downloaded Instapaper 4.2.3 and found that upon opening it, the application "crashed immediately." The issue even occurred after users removed the application from their devices and reinstalled it with a clean version.
After inspecting the issue, Arment found that the problem was due to a corrupt update Apple distributed through its App Store. According to Arment, the update he sent over worked just fine, so he quickly complained to Apple about the issue. Within a couple of hours, a new, reliable update was distributed and the problem was addressed.
"I haven't yet received a response from App Review, so I don't know whether the fix was because I made noise, or simply because time passed, which may, for instance, expire a cache with the bad data," Arment wrote in a blog post yesterday. "The only fix for people with bad copies, once good copies are being served again by the App Store, is to delete and reinstall the app."
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