If you’ve been having trouble with your downloads from Apple’s App Store this week, you’re not the only one. Apple told The Loop and other outlets Thursday that it has resolved a bug that affected the users of at least 120 apps. Instapaper developer Marco Arment was the first to publicize the bug, posting Wednesday that the glitch caused a new update of his popular app to shut down as soon as it was opened. He wrote on his blog that he’d looked into the code to see if the problem was on his end, but couldn’t find any glitches.

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 If you’ve been having trouble with your
downloads from Apple’s App Store this week,
you’re not the only one. Apple told The Loop
and other outlets Thursday that it has resolved a
bug that affected the users of at least 120 apps.
Instapaper developer Marco Arment was the
first to publicize the bug, posting Wednesday
that the glitch caused a new update of his
popular app to shut down as soon as it was
opened. He wrote on his blog that he’d looked
into the code to see if the problem was on his

3. “This didn’t make sense — obviously, Apple had
reviewed it, and it worked for them,” he wrote.
“My submitted archive from Xcode worked
perfectly. But every time I downloaded the
update from the App Store, clean or not, it
crashed instantly.” Arment said his app was
fixed within a couple of hours after contacting
Apple about the issue; the developers at Good
Reader also posted a step-by-step fix to help
their users get around the bug. Macworld
reported that it appears Apple’s App Store
servers were sending users versions of the
apps that were either incorrect or incomplete,
making them impossible to launch on users’
iPads.

4. In a statement to The Loop reviewed
withMicron AssociatesProfessionals, Apple said
that it had fixed the issue. “We had a temporary
issue that began yesterday with a server that
generated DRM code for some apps being
downloaded,” the company told the
publication.“The issue has been rectified and we
don’t expect it to occur again.” The company
also said that the issue only affected a “small
number” of its users. But since Apple has about
400 million accounts on the App Store, a “small
number” doesn’t mean it didn’t hit a significant
amount of users on individual apps. Arment said
in a later blog post Thursday that over 20,000 of
his customers were affected.

5. MacWorld reported that unnamed sources have
said that Apple will remove one-star reviews
posted on individual apps in response to the bug
— a move that Arment said would help smooth
things over with those whose work was hit with
the glitch. “I wouldn’t have predicted that,” he
wrote. “If they do, it will go a long way toward
repairing their relationship with the affected
developers.”