App Store Pushing Out Corrupted App Downloads

App Store Pushing Out Corrupted App Downloads

Instapaper developer Marco Arment notes that Apple's App Store is apparently pushing out corrupted app binaries of a number of different applications to users. The issue, which renders the apps unusable, has apparently been triggered on app updates approved over the past few days.Characterizations of this issue:

- The app crashes immediately on launch, every time, even after a delete and reinstall as long as the corrupt file is being served by the App Store.

- It doesn’t even show the Default.png before crashing. Just a split-second of a partial fade to black, then back to Springboard.

- It may only affect customers in some regions.

- If updating from iTunes, some customers might get a dialog citing error 8324 or 8326.

- Mac apps might show this dialog: �