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Gameloft apps averaging over 1 million downloads a month
In early September, Gameloft announced that its line of iPhone apps, which include top selling titles such as Gangstar: West Coast hustle, Assassin’s Creed, Avatar, NOVA, and NFL 2010, had topped 6 million downloads in just over 12 months – amounting to about 500,000 downloads a month. Since then, Gameloft has been on a tear, […]
Continue reading...Keep warm with Pocket Heat for the iPhone? Not bloody likely
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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App developers certainly don’t lack an imagination when it comes to putting up gimmicky and utterly pointless apps up on iTunes. Case in point – an app called Pocket Heat which touts itself as being able to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a portable heater by running the CPU at maximum capacity. The description […]
Continue reading...Why the Nexus One can’t compete with the app experience on the iPhone
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The Nexus One phone from Google is out of the bag and the reviews are beginning to trickle in. Overall, it’s being painted as a solid offering, and while it may not be an iPhone killer, it certainly may give other Android phones a run for their money. But in the midst of all the […]
Continue reading...Apple announces over 3 billion downloads from iTunes App Store
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Apple earlier today issued a press release announcing that there has now been over 3 billion downloads from the iTunes App Store, a staggering number to say the least. CUPERTINO, California—January 5, 2010—Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users […]
Continue reading...Why Apple’s app store has a built-in advantage with iTunes
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The iTunes App Store is a monster that’s spawned a number of competing app stores from the likes of RIM, Microsoft, and of course, Google. The Android Marketplace in particular has been growing at a steady pace over the past few months, with the latest reports indicating that there are now over 20,000 apps available for […]
Continue reading...CNBC to examine mobile app market with “Planet of the Apps” on January 7
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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On January 7 at 10 PM, CNBC will air a special program called “Planet of the Apps” that will take a look at the growing billion dollar industry that is the mobile app market. The program description reads: “Apps are everywhere. In less than two years, the app craze has taken over. These small applications […]
Continue reading...App downloads skyrocket during holiday weekend; Tap Tap Revenge 3 nets 300,000 downloads in 24 hours
Monday, December 28, 2009
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With the holiday shopping season now firmly behind us, an untold mass of people are busy getting acquainted with new iPhones and iPod Touch devices, and it only makes sense that many of them are migrating en masse to the iTunes App Store to see what all the fuss is about. So it makes sense […]
Continue reading...“Gunman” app is like laser tag and paintball for your iPhone
Monday, December 21, 2009
Holy Shit. If this app is half as good as it sounds, then this might be a literal killer app for the iPhone. I’m talking about “Gunman” (iTunes Link), a recently released iPhone app from Shadowforce that takes augmented reality to a whole new level by meshing it with a first person shooter. Gunman is […]
Continue reading...Extent of App Store success surprised Apple executives
Monday, December 21, 2009
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The scope and depth of the iTunes App Store is astonishing, with well over 100,000 apps that have generated more than 2 billion downloads to date. But when the app store first opened up for business in July of 2008, no one could have predicted just how successful it was going to be – and that even […]
Continue reading...Customers leave hilarious comments on iTunes for Tiger Woods’ PGA Golf app
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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I’ve already lost count of how many women have come out and recounted their stories of hooking up with Tiger Woods, though I think by now it’s at least up to 11. In the wake of Tiger’s indiscretions, though, a number of big name advertisers have decided cut ties with the talented golfer, including Gatorade […]
Continue reading...Apple unveils new layout for app pages on iTunes
Monday, December 14, 2009
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On Friday evening, Apple made some significant changes to the way individual apps pages are laid out on the iTunes App Store. As you can tell from the screenshot above, the app icon is now featured more prominently in the upper left-hand corner. Moreover, instead of having to click ‘next’ to view another screenshot of […]
Continue reading...A few interesting details about the app store
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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Writing for VentureBeat, Paul Boutin lists a few interesting tidbits he picked up from speakers at the DiscoveryBeat 2009 conference, an event focused “on the secret recipe for application discovery.” The majority of app developers don’t pay for market research before they design and build their apps. Yet this kind of research is inexpensive and […]
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Monday, January 11, 2010
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