It seems Apple has quietly fixed an issue in their App Store in which developers looking to “cut in line” would put a space or symbol in front of their app name to get it to show first on an alphabetically organized list. One of the nastier perpetrators of this scheme was Jirbo, Inc. Developers and users alike were understandably pissed and threw a hissy fit. Apple, it seems, responded quickly.
Visiting the App Store now, I see that Jirbo’s titles, as well as quite a few others, still have a space in front of them, but are simply alphabetized by the following letter.
Take that, cheaters! Now your apps are back where they belong, but still have that space which makes them look stupid and exposes them as cheaters. Failed cheaters. Booyah!
Apps with numbers as the first character in their name are also now in order by the first character of the first word in the name.
Cue flood of Apps starting with "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Now if we could just get iTunes to alphabetize tracks with numbers before letters (like the rest of the known universe)