Apple has responded to news of widespread problems with crashing iOS and Mac apps and has assured its developers that it is working to resolve the issue, according to various reports. Apps that received updates on or around July 4 were crashing as soon as people tried using them, leading to user retaliation in a barrage of one-star ratings for the reviews of affected apps. When Marco Arment updated his app, Instapaper, on Wednesday, he too was not spared, and he received various poor ratings. He responded by putting up a post detailing the issue, complete with a list of affected apps, which has grown from about 50 Thursday morning to more than 100 in the afternoon. Among the most notable affected apps besides Instapaper are the iPhone and iPad versions of Angry Birds Space Free, GoodReader and even the Los Angeles Times' own app, according to the list put together by Arment. Some are now saying Apple's FairPlay DRM may be the cause of the problem. But Apple has begun responding to developers in its forums as well as via email, according to a report by TechCrunch. We are aware of the issue related to apps crashing after update. We are currently working on resolving the issue. Stay tuned for updates," Apple posted, according to the report. In the emails it sent some developers, Apple also included numbers they could call, and one of the developers who reached a representative said he was told Apple has a dedicated team looking at the issue. But while Apple will probably be able to fix the issue quickly, what may be trickier to fix is the reputations of its affected developers. The Next Web noted that Thursday's incident shines a light on how troublesome it can be that developers do not have many ways of addressing poor reviews that they receive, which is the big issue in this case seeing as their apps' recent issues were not their fault. But another developer from TechCrunch's report said he got the sense from the Apple representative that the company may do something to help address that issue as well.