Marco Arment reports a serious problem in the AppStore: corrupt updates crashing every time at launch, affecting many recently-updated apps: "If you're a developer, and you have a non-critical update pending release, I suggest waiting a few days for this to presumably get sorted out before releasing it."
AppStore delivering corrupt updates
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