Hi Raul, Juliette, and Others,
The Top 100s by Year by Bing app got pulled from the App Store because to
keep using the app requires that you have the Bing app by Microsoft. And as
Daniel mentioned in an earlier post, back in 2010 Microsoft decided to pull the
Bing app from all international (meaning non-U.S.) App Stores when they updated
the app in mid-March. So you can only get the Bing app if you are in the U.S.
The app was made by a third party developer named nuTsie (note the unusual
spelling with lower case letters n and u, a capital T in the middle of
the word, and lower case s i e). When access to Bing dried up for everyone
except for U.S. users, they pulled the app. They also had Classical 100 by
Bing, Classical 100 by Bing Lite, and Pop 100 by Bing. The same company
still makes a (different) Top 100 Classical Favorites app in both regular
($1.99) and Lite (free) versions, and have a Top 100 Fun Songs for Kids app
($1.99).
Here's an excerpt from an article reporting on Microsoft's decision:
Source: ReadWriteWeb archives at:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/updated_bing_iphone_app_removed_from_international_app_stores.php
begin excerpt
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing iPhone app. The iPhone app
gives you comprehensive access to Bing's core services, including Bing maps and
directions, as well as news and image search. Besides offering better stability
and a few interface tweaks, the new version of the Bing app also integrates
more tightly with the iPhone by giving you access to your contacts in the
mapping feature and making it easier to copy and paste URLs and share
interesting results through email.
Releasing Bing for iPhone Worldwide was an Accident...
Just as it launched this new version of the app, however, Microsoft also pulled
the Bing applications from all the non-U.S. versions of the App Store.
According to a statement Microsoft sent to Neowin, the company inadvertently
made it available to all countries in which the Apple Marketplace has a
presence. Why it took Microsoft three months to pull the app, which was
released in December 2009, remains a bit of a mystery.
end excerpt
If you have a version of the original app from an old backup, you can still use
it, I think -- at least for the first 60 days. Longer use may require you to
have the Bing app and/or pay whatever the amount was to continue listening
($0.99 or $1.99, I think), if this still works.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
Hi, this is top 100 by Bing and is no longer available. It's a really nice
app, but I don't know why it was removed. The last time I tried it, things
worked still.
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Raul A. Gallegos
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Twitter: @rau47
On Jun 30, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Juliette Swiler juliette.swi...@aol.com wrote:
There used to be an app that played top 100 hits by year. I think VoiceOver
called it bing music. Is it still in the app store? I can't seem to find it.
Juliette
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