Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

Amazon to Abandon $99 Android Developer Fee!?

October 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Last week, we reported that Amazon is setting up their own Android App Store and that developers have to pay $99 to join in. It seems Amazon has changed its approach on how to work with developers.

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Apple Updates App Store Layout and Rolls Back

October 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, Apple updated the layout of the App Store app on the iPhone. Today, Apple is showing the old layout again, which hints that something must have gone wrong.

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Amazon to Launch an Android App Store

September 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Amazon has been publishing digital content for a while, the company seems willing to expand into additional platforms, starting with publishing apps for the Android platform.

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Adobe AIR Heading to Android Market

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Rumors amongst Adobe AIR developers say the platform will soon be available on Android Market. These rumors appear to be coming from an Adobe mailing toward its AIR development community.

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Gameloft did 20 Million Downloads on the App Store

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Gameloft announced that the company did 20 million downloads since it started selling games on Apple’s App Store back in 2008. They now have over 100 titles online.

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EA Wishes for Android App Store

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During his keynote at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, EA’s CFO Eric Brown told the public that Android could be a very interesting platform if it only had an App Store.

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Apple Starts Clearing Unused Names

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the App Store, every app has to have a unique title. As a result, many developers have registered titles that sounds good, but haven’t used them for any app yet. Apple has started to take action to free those titles up.

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Adobe Restarts Flash for iOS Development

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With Apple changing their policy in regards to third party app development tools, Adobe has announced the company is delighted to restart development of Flash for the iOS platform.

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Reverb Settles with FTC over Review Scandal

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

Reverb Communications has chosen to settle a lawsuit brought on by the FTC over the deceptive reviews the company wrote on Apple’s App Store.

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GDC: Mobile Games are Leading the App Store Boom

August 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Kicking off this morning was a discussion between Michael Schade (Fishlabs)Michael Bohne (Badmonkee), Nils-Holger Henning (Bigpoint) and moderator Jascha Samadi (Apprupt) about how mobile games can be successful in the competitive environment of the App Store.

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