Archive for the ‘Platforms: iOS’ Category

Distimo’s December App Stores Report

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Distimo has released a new report on App Store usage over a variety of platforms and the developers behind those platforms. One of the findings shows EU developers price their apps 49% higher compared to the US.

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C64 Emulator Receives OpenFaint Overhaul

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Kiloo has updated their Commodore 64 emulator and integrated OpenFeint support in it. This means consumers can compete on a not-so-retro global level in a-lot-more-retro C64 games.

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Fishlabs’ Waterslide Extreme Reaches 10 Million Downloads

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

Barclaycard’s Waterslide Extreme was already known as a very successful advertgame from Fishlabs. Now, the company revealed that this game attracted 10 million downloads since its release on July 16th 2009.

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Greystripe reveals Pay per Download Results

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few months ago, we reported that Greystripe was introducing a new pay per download model for developers. In theory this means Greystripe would deliver a guaranteed download in return for your 99 cents.

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IDC: Android to be 2nd Mobile OS by 2013

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Linux, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WebOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

IDC expects Android to be the second biggest smartphone operating system by 2013. By that time, there will be over 390 Million devices in the market that have Google’s OS installed.

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Appcelerator Shows High Development Interest in iSlate

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research company Appcelerator interviewed a big amount of developers to chart platform interest amongst them. Though the iPhone leads the chart at 86%, the Apple Tablet sits at third place with 58%.

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Flight Control Sold 2 Million Units

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Firemint has announced that Flight Control has sold 2 Million copies on Apple’s App Store in ten months time. With 2 Million downloads, this might just be the most popular title in its genre.

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The Day of the Tablet

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today is the big day. Apple will reveal a ‘new consumer device’ they are really excited about. Ok, everybody knows we are talking about the iSlate as McGraw CEO Terry McGraw confirmed existence to CNBC.

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Namco Confirms 23 Million Downloads on App Store

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

Namco has a reason to celebrate. Through their games on the app store, the company generated 23 Million downloads. Pac-Man is leading their portfolio and generates over 36K downloads a day.

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Walt Mossberg Reviews the iSlate

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

A day before Jobs will take the stage, surprising us with a product we all expect, Walt Mossberg is discussing the iSLate and its latest features including support for iPhone apps.