Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Greystripe and Tapjoy Hook Up

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Greystripe is the latest mobile advertising platform to be connected with the Tapjoy platform. Through the deal, developers making use of Tapjoy will be able to select the best paying adverts.

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T-Mobile NL Reacts to iPhone Hacks

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

T-Mobile NL has announced that the company will start to work on a solution to avoid the clients with jailbreaked iPhones being hacked via a flaw in OpenSSH.

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AppStoreHQ Lists App by Twitter Popularity

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone users have gained yet another method to discover popular apps on the App Store. The website AppStoreHQ is now listing mobile games and apps based on their popularity on Twitter.

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Flurry: There’s an ‘Addict’ for That

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Next to e-books overtaking mobile games on the App Store, Flurry revealed another interesting demographic. They tracked the ‘addict’ segment in Apple’s App Store.

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Low Demand for the iPhone in China

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When China Unicom announced to start selling the iPhone in China, we already reported that the number of devices in the first batch was very low for that market. Reports are now coming in that the iPhone is even less popular than expected.

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Jailbreak iPhone Owners Hacked

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

This week has become very interesting for the jailbreak community. A Dutch hacker managed to get into the iPhone and even got control over consumers’ iTunes accounts.

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Flurry: Books Surpass Games on iPhone

November 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Over the past months, books have become more and more popular on the iPhone. Over the months September and October, more books have been released then games according to Flurry.

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DeNa Takes 20% Stake in OpenFeint

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Japanese mobile social network company DeNa has invested several millions into OpenFeint in order to secure a 20% stake in the (competing) iPhone based social network.

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iPhone Casual Games: Lessons for Success

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Stuart Dredge is presenting a session at the Casual Games Forum about the factors that made certain games perform successfully on Apple’s App Store. The slides have just been published.

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Is iPhone Piracy a Real Problem?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Lately, there have been a lot of stories where developers complaint over iPhone piracy. Some of them are long time mobile game developers and that made me wonder… is Piracy a problem? Is it even that new?