Yes, the idea is for APPC to be a payment solution for in-app purchases. In theory not only for Android apps, the protocol could also work for iOS apps, even though, Apple is less likely to adopt the protocol.

Here's our first AppCoins Video Update by our Lead Dev, Diogo Pires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbWy1opGRA

🚨 Attention everyone!! 🚨
Token release/unlock done ✅
Exchange listing in Binance is live 💥
Remeber, it's time to hodl! AppCoins going to the moon! 🌛

We're off to a good start 
Thanks to everyone in the community! You made this possible!

Some users have been complaining about this. However, the final allocation was the one that was initially announced. There was a miscommunication related with the translation bounties, which led Sylon to change the distribution mid ICO. But the final values were always meant to be these.

🚨 Attention everyone!! 🚨
Token release/unlock will be Friday, January 5th (tomorrow!) at 4PM UTC.
Exchange listing in a top exchange should happen on the same day.
Remeber, it's time to hodl! AppCoins going to the moon! 🌛
Read more about the upcoming roadmap: https://medium.com/@appcoins/an-update-on-appc-starting-2018-with-good-news-e8eb455898b3

The ICO ended two weeks ago, with the hard cap reached (15.3M USD).

We are still getting a lot of traffic, especially since a lot of people from the community are getting anxious about the next steps 

We have a steady calendar of press engagements planned for the next months to generate awareness

Thanks Crypto we appreciate your support

Very very soon. We are just confirming some technical details regarding the ICO process.

Yes, the tokens are still locked. But pretty soon they will be unlocked. We are working on burning the unsold tokens and distributing the bounties first.

Unsold tokens will be burned 

Thanks everyone for the support.
Here are some details on the next steps after reaching the ICO hard cap: https://medium.com/@appcoins/appcoins-ico-is-closed-hardcap-reached-3a653e6b9208

🎉 AppCoins ICO Hard Cap has been reached! 🎉 Thanks to all the participants who made this possible!

So far so good, we already have a working MVP that we presented back in November during WebSummit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhBm4PerhpQ

💥 The Sale is Live 💥
Here: https://www.appcoins.io
If you require any assistance please check our FAQ (https://medium.com/@appcoins/the-appcoins-ico-sale-is-live-how-to-participate-d85aec50b498) or join our Telegram group that has 24/7 support: https://t.me/joinchat/G337zg6z0ACm6QTvUU9_Yw

That's a very valid concern. Our whitepaper (https://appcoins.io/pdf/appcoins_whitepaper.pdf) on page 13 suggests a number of possible solutions:

• Thresholds: The app store sets a lower limit, e.g. one install a day and three per week
for unknown users. As the user has more transactions in the blockchain, the level of trust
increases and the threshold is slightly raised. The user would never be able to do more
than two installations per day in any case.
• Cash out: As mentioned before, the user is not able to cash out tokens. He has to use
the AppCoin tokens for in-app purchases. A fraudulent user could try to register as a
developer and buy items inside his own app, but 15% of the transaction volume would be
lost (app store and OEM margin) and it would be easier to detect a fraudulent pattern
for that user.
• User Fingerprint: The fingerprint of the user (a unique identification to detect double
attribution) is not done only at the smartphone level but, more importantly, at networking
level. The IP of the user smartphone, as well as routing information, is used in the
fingerprint.
• Shared information: The existent transactions with the fingerprint information will
persist in the blockchain, allowing the different app stores to access and avoid cross-store
fraud. The partial anonymity of the user is accomplished by using hash functions (like
SHA256) in the fingerprint.
• Targeting: It is the store that sends the Ads for the user, trying to do an intelligent
matching between the user and the running campaigns. The client cannot try to install
an advertised app that was not targeted to him.
As mentioned before, it is impossible to totally eradicate fraud since the smartphone is an
untrusted environment. The goal is to create enough difficulties for the attacker beyond the
point that the effort and resources needed to explore the attack vector do not compensate the
benefits extracted from that attack.

No, not from the blockchain. That DMCA process happens only at the app store level. Also, one of thing is censorship, another one is complying with copyright law.

We've already set a vesting period for the team. We've also set up a bootstrap mechanism that will delay some tokens distribution amongst the developers, users and OEMs. Other than that there's not much more we can do. As you know, investing in cryptocurrencies and ICOs such as AppCoins always carries a risk, just like investing in any other business.

Yes, when you want to install any third party app store such as Aptoide you usually download the apk from their website. In the case of Aptoide, many device manufacturers already bring Aptoide pre-installed.