Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

Nickelodeon Enters the App Store

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

MTV has been active on the App Store for over a year already and now kids brand Nickelodeon is joining their big Music brother. This week, Nick announced to release 7 apps of which 6 are games.

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iPad App Store, First Impression

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Those who are interested in what the App Store for the iPad will be looking like can enjoy the video below. It shows all features we already know from iTunes and a coverflow mechanism for spotlight apps.

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Nielsen: iTunes Best and Windows Marketplace Worst App Store

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has surveyed 4.000 consumers about their usage of app stores. The survey shows that consumers are very satisfied about Apple, but are less happy with Microsoft’s efforts.

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Global App Store Pricing Down

March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

In Distimo’s latest report, the company ranks the prices of the different app stores and markets against each other. Though App Store prices are declining everywhere, there are some interesting differences.

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Fisher-Price Enters the App Store

March 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Fisher Price, the brand that reminds us of cute but huge plastic toys for the ‘much to young to own an iPhone’ generation has decided to bring a number of apps onto the App Store.

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Apple Opens App Store for iPad

March 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Starting last Friday, developers can start uploading their iPad apps to the app store. With a bit of luck, approval will be fast enough to have the apps available at the launch of the device.

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Zits & Giggles Booted Off the App Store

March 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

After our story “The Marketing of App Store Economics” about how two developers generated sales by increasing the price of their app, the developers now confirm the app has been taken down by Apple.

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The Marketing of App Store Economics

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Strange title? Perhaps. The story behind it is even more surprising. iPhone developers Tommy Refenes and Adam Saltsman made a horrible game and tried to market it by increasing the price instead of lowering it.