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Marvel to start selling digital comic books on iTunes, and why the format might help children learn
Marvel Entertainment announced at the New York Comic Con that it would begin selling a new form of digital comics on iTunes. According to GeeksOfDoom, this new breed of comic, which are called motion comics, will “feature panels that animate scenes and add spoken dialog from voice actors.” Intriguing. It all sounds pretty cool, and […]
Continue reading...Palm hires ex-Apple guy as manger of its Palm Pre developer community
Monday, February 9, 2009
Former Apple employee Chuq Von Rospach recently accepted a position at Palm where he will serve as the Developer Community Manager for the Palm Pre SDK. Apple’s app store is already off to a commanding lead, and the Palm Pre, which doesn’t launch for another few months, will have to play a significant amount of […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects “Throw a shoe at George W. Bush” iPhone app
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Apple recently rejected a Pakistani developers iPhone application that lets users use the iPhone’s accelerometer to hurl a virtual shoe at former President George W. Bush. If you recall, in the weeks preceding Bush’s tenure as President, he was giving a speech in Iraq when a journalist popped up and threw a shoe at him. […]
Continue reading...The nuances of App Store pricing and marketing
Thursday, February 5, 2009
David Frampton, the creator of the popular iPhone game ‘Chopper’, has an extremely enlightening blog entry about his experiences with App Store pricing and marketing in iTunes. Frampton on the trend of lowering prices in order to boost sales volume: But the biggest problem with setting an app price at the lowest possible value is […]
Continue reading...Child Prodigy in Singapore writes iPhone apps
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A fourth grader from Singapore has written a drawing app for the iPhone called “Doodle Kids”, and its already been downloaded over 4,000 times. The fourth grader, named Lim Ding Wen, happens to be fluent in six, count em’ SIX!, programming languages, and he’s currently hard at work on another iPhone game called “Invader Wars”. […]
Continue reading...iPhone users download games like crazy
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new report from ComScore shows that over the past year, downloads of mobile games increased by 17%. Naturally, a huge reason for this increase is the ever-growing popularity of smartphones, which are significantly more geared towards gaming than regular voice phones. What’s even more interesting is the fact that iPhone users are seemingly downloading […]
Continue reading...Apple-themed area at CES ’10 more than quadruples in size due to overwhelming interest
Monday, February 2, 2009
When Apple announced that 2009 would be its last year at Macworld, CES pounced at the opportunity to reach out to Mac software developers and accessory makers in an attempt to convince them to migrate over to CES in 2010 – and so far, according to CES officials, the initiative is off to a resounding […]
Continue reading...Is Apple planning opening up a premium games section on the App Store?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Pocketgamer is reporting that Apple has plans to open up a section on the iTunes App Store dedicated solely to games priced over $19.99. ..The initiative will only be open to a restricted number of large publishers, rather than the thousands of smaller developers currently selling their titles on the main App Store. The rumour […]
Continue reading...Podcaster now available in the App Store
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A few months ago, in September to be exact, there was a tiny bit of controversy regarding Apple’s decision not to accept an application known as ‘Podcaster’ into the iTunes App Store. Podcaster allowed users to stream and download podcasts over an Internet connection without having to access them via iTunes. This proved to be […]
Continue reading...500 Million downloads from iTunes App Store
Friday, January 16, 2009
Users who visited Apple’s website today were greeted with a message that the iTunes app store has had over 15,000 apps and over 500 million downloads. Incredible. Meanwhile, a competing App Store from BlackBerry has yet to launch, and Android’s app marketplace is trudging along in obscurity. When Apple last revealed download figures about a month […]
Continue reading...More iPhone developers strike it rich
Thursday, January 15, 2009
First there was Trism, then there was iFart, and now there’s iSteam. The latest story of an iPhone developer striking it rich comes by way of a couple of 22 year olds who have already earned $100,000 for their iPhone app called “iSteam”. iSteam is a program that makes it appear that you have a […]
Continue reading...Wednesday Morning Link Roundup
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Schedule DirectTV Recording directly from your iPhone – TUAW 5 Reasons to continue to use iTunes over Songbird – SmokingApples Colleges now offering iPhone App making courses – iPhoneSpies Chipotle App comes to the iPhone, and then it leaves – MacRumors Apple’s mini connector set to be part of DisplayPort standard – AppleInsider Mr. T […]
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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