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Where is the App Store category Communication?

The missing App Store Category Communication

I write this blog entry to get permanent link for a standard reply to one question all new iTunes App Store users searching for our FriendCaller app ask us: “Why aren’t you listed in the category ‘communication’?” That is a very good question. FriendCaller is a web based VoIP service provider so when our users looking for our FriendCaller app on iTunes they naturally look for the category VoIP or Communication or Telecom… OK, the answer is: There is no such category. So we are found under the category Social Networking, same is true for Skype, Fring and Truphone and other VoIP providers.

Apple has changed its attitude over time for the better of the consumer and gradually opened up for VoIP applications. We actually were admitted to iTunes a week before Skype. Now there is only one question left: “Why is there no category communication, Telecom or VoIP?” It’s about time to open a category suitable for VoIP. At the other hand, now I have this permanent link…

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