Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

Apple to Sue MiKanDi Too!?

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following the lawsuit towards Amazon, it seems like Apple will also start chasing MiKanDi, an Android app store. Reason for this is that MiKanDi promotes itself as the first ‘Adult App Store’.

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Apple to Sue Amazon Over App Store

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Some things are bound to happen. Amazon recently announced the exclusive launch of Angry Birds Rio on the Amazon Appstore and at that moment, the whole world knew Amazon would be sued at some point.

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Opera Launches Opera Mobile Store

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Opera has launched it’s own browser based app store called Opera Mobile Store. The app store is active in over 200 countries and supports platforms like Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Symbian.

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Apple Announces iPad 2, iOS 4.3, What for iPhone 5?

March 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple announced the iPad 2 yesterday. The presence of two camera’s was no big surprise to anyone but the iPad 2 holds some improvements that can have major impact on the development of new apps for the system.

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Lookout: Android Market Grew 127%

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

US research bureau Lookout has calculated that Android Market grew 127% over the past six months. Apple’s growth in percentage is significantly lower with ‘just’ 44%.

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Apple Starts App Store Subscriptions

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though most of us expected Apple to roll out App Store subscriptions with an update to iOS, the company suddenly launched the new functionality earlier today.

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SEGA, EA and Gameloft in App Store Pricewars

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems Valentines-day is the perfect momentum to start a new war. A price war that is, started by good old Electronic Arts with their “I Love 99¢” promotion.

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Apple Launches App Store Twitter Account

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple launched a new Twitter account for consumers that like to receive the latest news about sweet deals and promotions for their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

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App Store Passed 10.000.000.000 Downloads

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last Saturday, Apple’s App Store passed ten billion downloads. The App Store currently holds over 300.000 apps and was launched in July 2008 following the release of the first iPhone.

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Microsoft Questions ‘App Store’ Trademark

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

After being battled about the ‘Windows’ trademark being too generic, Microsoft is now chasing up Apple for the same thing. Microsoft believes the term ‘App Store’ is too generic.