Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

GpsAssasin is Playing the App Store

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The developer, Side Hobby, behind gpsAssasins has figured out a new trick to score well on Apple's App Store. It is now rewarding consumers for leaving a 5-star review.

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Mobclix: 16.000 Games on App Store

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We often claim that we have 70.000 competing apps on the app store, but that is not exactly true. The number can be narrowed down dramatically if you look at Mobclix' numbers.

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Vodafone Renames MyWeb to 360?

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Many sources say this week will be the big rollout of the Vodafone 360 platform in several countries. A few months back we already reported on a softlaunch of Vodafone MyWeb in the Netherlands.

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OutboundCity Wants Tities from Apple

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

App Store developers OutboundCicy has put an open letter to Apple on it's website to complaint about the difference in nudity regulations for movies and mobile games on iTunes.

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SE Details App Store Strategy

September 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

In an exclusive interview from ME, Tim Green spoke with Christopher David (Head of Developer and partner engagement at SonyEricsson) about what SE's new app store will be offering toward the development community.

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Bolt Creative to Charge for Updates

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

As HandyGames recently announced with PocketGamer, selling iPhone games at 99 cents is destroying the market as consumer expectations are lowered. Pocket God, feels the pain already and will start charging for extra's via micro transactions.

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Trip Hawkins on Self-Published, Owned IP 1/2

September 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over at DC's blog, CEO Trip Hawkins launched the first of a two part story in regards to self-published, Owned IP and the success of it in Apple's App Store.

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EA and Gameloft’s App Store Pricing Analysed

September 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »

Jon Jordan has taken the time to analyse the price differences bethween EA, Gameloft and prette much the rest of the developers that managed to hit the top 100 in the US app store.

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Apple on iPhone Updates and Stats

September 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tonight, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple event and outlined the company's plans to update the current iPhone firmware as well as some details about the App Store.

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C64 Emulator Removed

September 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though we where happy to report that the C64 emulator from Kiloo and Manomio had finally been approved by Apple, it has now been removed from the App Store as there was a way for consumers to access BASIC in it.