Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Apple Starts Selling iPhones in the US

March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Apple has started to sell iPhones in the US without the obligation to enter into a new contract with operator AT&T. The iPhones will however be simlocked to the AT&T network.

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Apple And the Gift of Giving

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

Untill now, providing reviewers with mobile games could have been a huge pain. Apart from a limited number of promo codes that could be given out, the functionality was limited to the US.

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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.

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Gameloft Experiments with Game Compilations

March 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

For years, compilations have been very popular for many types of media products. Now, Gameloft has started to experiment with game compilations on Apple’s App Store.

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iPad Receives Dedicated Section on App Store

March 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Since this weekend, consumers can pre-order the iPad in several markets. Though the device is compatible with each and every iPhone app on the app store, it will also get a dedicated section.

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Apple Released iPhone SDK 3.2 B4

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today, Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 4 (two weeks after the last one). Though iPhone developers can download the SDK, it will be focused mainly at iPad development.

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All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has done something no developer at all would consider. It publicly posted the full Apple developer license agreement and started slamming it.

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Slide2Play Enters App Discovery Market

March 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone review site Slide2Play has released an app discovery app of their own. The app will feature all current and coming reviews from the website and offer gamers the direct option to purchase them.