Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

Apshopper Shares Release Rate Details

January 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Arnold Kim from AppShopper.com has put a graph on his Twitter outlining the number of daily releases between November 15th and January 14th. The 18th of December saw 4.491releases.

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Verizon’s App Store Rollout Imminent

January 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

ME reports that the launch of Verizon’s App Store is imminent. The US based operator will first launch its consumer channel on RIM’s BlackBerry platform according to reports at CES.

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App Store Passes 3bn Milestone

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Barely four months after Apple announced to have passed 2 billion downloads on its App Store, Steve Jobs has the pride to announce that the service passed three billion downloads this month.

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MiKandi Launches Naughty App Store

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

MiKandi has released a new Android based App Store to compete with the original Android Market. The big differentiator will be adult content as MiKandi promotes anything that is legally allowed.

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LG Signs Handster for Content

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Handster, an app store operator and provider, has signed a deal to provide its services to Korean mobile vendor LG. Handster will be providing games and content for Windows Mobile, J2me, Symbian and Android.

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Thanksgiving Decreases App Store Pricing

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we are an ocean away, it’s clear Thanksgiving has a huge impact on mobile game pricing within the App Store. Many companies have lowered the prices of their products.

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TAG Games’ First Publishing Deal in

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With the growing competition, it’s hard for small developers to compete on the App Store. To assist those developers, TAG announced interest in publishing third party games.

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Riptide Reveals In-Game Payment Results

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

iPhone developer Riptide Games has disclosed statistics on their in-game sales in full detail. They will continue to do so over the coming time and we have received permission to copy their details on MGB

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Apple Explains App Approval Process

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple’s VP of World-Wide Product Marketing Phil Schiller has opened the book on the App Approval Processes at the company. He tries to explainthe, sometimes controversial, rejections that have been reported lately.

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Warner Bros Takes Harry Mobile

November 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The impact of the iPhone already showed a lot of shifts when it comes to launching branded content. Over the past years, we’ve seen EA Mobile sell Harry Potter games, but it looks like Warner is going direct now.