{"id":20739,"date":"2010-06-01T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=20739"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:57:52","slug":"ustwo%e2%84%a2-pushes-server-side-update-to-positionapp%e2%84%a2-brings-faster-update-intervals-and-more-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/ustwo%e2%84%a2-pushes-server-side-update-to-positionapp%e2%84%a2-brings-faster-update-intervals-and-more-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"ustwo Pushes Server-Side Update to PositionApp, Brings Faster Update Intervals and More Countries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/breaking-blog\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mills of London-based design studio Ustwo\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, also the developers behind MouthOff and the .\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 48hrapp series, today informed us that the company had just this second pushed a server-side update to their App Store ranking engine, PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the server side update really puts PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 at the top of the app discovery and awareness chart, with the update adding three main features.<\/p>\n<p>These 3 server-side features include:<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Increased time between updates <em>(from 8 hours down to 3 hours)<\/em><br \/>\n\u201d\u00a2 Addition of more countries<br \/>\n\u201d\u00a2 Addition of games sub-categories <em>(19 new top 300 charts)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The new data update means every 3 hours the company will be pushing new charting data to your iPhone or iPod touch. Previous to today&#8217;s server-side update, the app would only check for and update chart data every 8 hours or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image5tst1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the update adds sub gaming categories, increasing the chances of a game developers app appearing in the top 300 of PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2. As ustwo\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 themselves note, the app now shows the top 300 charts for 19 new individual game sub categories. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside today&#8217;s announcement of the update, ustwo also announced their are shifting roughly 20 copies of PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 a day, with the app tending to be one which stays on people&#8217;s phones. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 is an essential tool for anyone in the iPhone business and now retails at \u00c2\u00a33.99. The first two months saw PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 go free as we were sponsored by AdMob and now we are directly selling upwards of 20 PositionApp\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a day right now. <\/p>\n<p>Its clear that it&#8217;s an app that stays on peoples phone and is more importantly an app that gets usage daily. 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