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For all of the phenomenal sales success of Apple’s App Store, there have been consistent complaints about it’s usability or lack there of. In addition, some users have complained that it tends to be very heavily infused with Apple marketing and fails to support Linux. However, considering what a success the App Store has been (and that it has been the only game in town) these minor issues have been largely ignored…until now.

A new website called AppBeacon which offers Apps for iPhones and iPod Touches for sale using  Apple’s affiliate program that shares five per cent of the cost of some iTunes apps with referring vendors or websites. Therefore AppBeacon is essentially an alternate App Store front end. It is a Linux friendly, less Apple-centric way to stock up your iPhone.

Playing with the site I noticed that it is not nearly as attractive as the App Store, but snappier with some nice extra features such as the ability to bookmark apps so you are informed of updates without having to buy them first and even better, a way to hide Apps you feel are offensive or that you just aren’t interested in. That way you can find what you DO want more easily.

If you love your iPhone’s versatility, but aren’t fond of the App Store GUI, AppBeacon may be the site you have been looking for.

(Source – Techradar)

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).