Developers and users of some of the most popular and useful iOS applications including Instapaper, GoodReader and Angry Birds are reporting significant crashes after recent updates in the App Store.
As first reported by The Verge, Instapaper developer and prolific app store critic Marco Arment said he noticed problems immediately after his app’s 4.2.3 update went live.
Arment writes:
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:
- “[App] is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete [App] and download it again from the App Store.”
- The console might show:AppleFairplayTextCrypterSession::fairplayOpen() failed, error -42110
Apple has no comment. If you are experiencing problems updating any of your apps in the last few days, let us know.
