Impact of Apps being featured by App Stores [Waze Case Study]

Apple App Store Feature

The Holy Grail of App marketing is still getting featured on Apple’s own App Store. All new products get a few days in the marketing sunshine that is the “New and Noteworthy” section of iTunes. And once that period is over your app’s sales can sink like a rather heavy stone in a deep dark pool, no matter how good … Read More

Tappi Bear All in 1 for iPhone and iPad [Game Center]

Tappi Bear All in 1

Tappi Bear All in 1 [rating: 3.5/5] Tappi Bear All In One is a super, cute app with five mini games. Developed by Taplay it is an app you can play anytime, anywhere. Join Tappi the donut loving bear on his journey, fighting the enemy as he goes! The app includes five games, all of them are very easy to understand … Read More

Dots-n-Bombs Great Example of how to Convert a Simple Game to the iPad

Dots-n-Bombs iPad

Dots-n-Bombs [rating: 4.5/5] During my youth I spent many an hour playing a variety of games using nothing more than a piece of paper and a pencil. From the traditional Noughts & Crosses, Sprouts and Squares to the more unique Cowboys & Indians and F1 Racing it was a cheap and easy way to pass some time. I was pleasantly surprised … Read More

Apple’s iTunes Now Highlights “Game Center” Compatible Apps

Game Center Apps

Apple has added some more information to the way it labels games in the iTunes App Store. Prior to the latest update, people wanting to find games that work with Game Center, Apple’s new social network for gaming, would have to scan the app’s text description, or look in a dedicated Game Center section on the App Store. It seems … Read More

Apple’s App Store Info-graphics

App Store Submissions

If you are interested in digging about what is going on with the App Store then we’ve found a cool web page for you to visit. Presented in some pretty large Info-graphics are breakdowns of figures like the amount of apps uploaded to Apple each day. And the amount of “inactive” apps in the App Store. Which is around 50,000 … Read More

Google Earth, Facebook, Labyrinth 2 and Guitar Hero Receive Updates

iOS Game Updates

For those of you who love your iOS apps, you’ll be interested to know that there have been some great updates recently to some of the App Store’s most popular, including Game Centre support for Labyrinth 2 and Guitar Hero, and a new ocean layer for Google Earth! Google Earth Version 3.1.0 brings with it an awesome new feature that … Read More

Iron Man 2 for iPhone 4 Limited Time Sale Only $0.99

Iron Man 2 iPhone 4

Gameloft has dropped the price of Iron Man 2 and now it’s available for only $0.99. The game was recently updated for iPhone 4 with High-definition graphics that fully utilize iPhone 4’s Retina display. Play as Iron Man for speed and agility or suit up as War Machine for maximum firepower. Both suits offer easy-to-learn controls and the ability to run, hover … Read More

Apple Setting Up Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions for iPad?

Something that a lot of the media outlets (both all digital outfits and converted to digital from more traditional print media) have wanted from Apple and the iPad is the ability to create a subscription type model for their publications. Indeed this is something that Rupert Murdoch, a recent convert to the “Church of Jobs”, is spending serious time sucking … Read More

Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Beta 1 for iPad

iPad 4.2 Beta 1

Apple has just released the first beta of iOS 4.2 for the iPad. The beta is now available for developers to download. During Apple’s special music event Steve Jobs gave us sneak peek into the new features of iOS 4.2 which will be all about iPad. iOS 4.2 will bring multitasking, folders, HDR photos, Game Center, wireless printing, AirPlay and much more to the iPad. … Read More

App Store Nears 250,000 Apps. Facebook Hits 100 Million

Facebook, which some would claim is probably the most used service on iPhone (via the Facebook app particularly), has passed 100 Million active users this weekend. Coincidentally that is close to the total number of iOS Devices that Apple has sold. Meanwhile Apple’s own iTunes App Store now boasts close to 250,000 Apps currently in its storefront, and has had … Read More

GAMEVIL Continues With High Profit Margins in 2Q

SEOUL, KOREA – August 9th, 2010 – GAMEVIL(R) (KOSDAQ:063080) achieved net profit percentage of 50.6% during the second quarter of 2010 continuing its high profit margin quarter after quarter. Sales, operating income and net income were 6.72 billion KRW, 3.54 billion KRW, 3.40 billion KRW, with a year on year increase of 25.2%, 11.3%, 29.3% accordingly, making it the best second … Read More

Apple (AAPL) and Publishers Disagree over iPad Subscriptions

Time Inc. attempted to submit a subscription version of their iPad “Sports Illustrated” app to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store last week. Only to have it rejected by Apple. Who, for some reason, find the idea of digital magazine subscriptions unattractive to their current business model. Time’s reason for attempting this strategy is apparently because customers are unhappy with the $4.99 price … Read More

WWDC Style iTunes App Store Sales Screen Saver

If you remember, around WWDC time we were all blown away by an Apple creation that was almost a piece of modern art. Especially if you were someone experiencing decent App Sales on a daily basis! In the lobby of the developer conference they setup a bank of monitors showing live iPhone App Sales cascading down them in real time. … Read More