Archive for the ‘Platforms: iOS’ Category

Microsoft Supports Apple

May 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the battle for Flash, Microsoft has announced that it understands Apple’s move away from Flash and toward HTML 5.0 for mobile devices. IE will fully support HTML 5.0, but there is no word on WinMo 7 or Silverlight.

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Adobe Strikes Back

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over at WSJ, the guys started a liveblog detailing out the response of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen who is not at all happy with the claims made from Steve Jobs. Check the liveblog here. We will update this post with a video soon.

Jobs Burns Flash Down to the Ground

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In an open letter, Steve Jobs explains what the relationship with Adobe was and will be for the future and that future, will stay ‘flashless’ as far as Apple is concerned.

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Apple Design Awards Coming

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple will soon be hosting the Apple Design Awards 2010. With the award, the company will be spotlighting apps that stand out from the crowd. The best is, you don’t even need to sign up to get listed!

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Jon Stewart and his Appholes

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys over at Moconews found some brilliant footage from the Daily Show. In about 8 minutes, Jon Stewart totally bashes Apple for the Gizmodo drama while still admitting that he loves their products.

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Namco Boosts Unity SDK Userbase

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

During the GDC, Namco announced their own social gaming platform as an answer to the popularity of Scoreloop and OpenFeint. The benefit of theirs would be the multiplatform strategy.

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Doodle Jump Passes 4 Million Downloads

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The success story of Doodle Jump keeps continuing as LimaSky announced that Doodle Jump has passed the 4 million downloads milestone on Apple’s App Store since its launch in March 2009.

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FreeAppADay Boosts 5 Games into US Free Top 10

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over the past weekend, FreeAppADay managed to boost five games into the US top 10 of free iPhone games. With this promotion, the company shows it has a dominant position in the discovery business.

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Apple Hires Ex-IGN Editor as App Store Chief

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has hired Matt Casamassina as their new App Store editorial chief. With this move, Apple again shows that the company is hiring the right people for the job.

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Steve Wozniak Jokes about Lost iPhone

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

While the police if investigating if Gizmodo has broken the law by buying the lost iPhone prototype, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak taken the liberty to make fun of the incident.

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