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. > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Sent from my brain > http://www.raulgallegos.com > Twitter: @rau47 > > On Jun 30, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Juliette Swiler <[email protected]> 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 >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
