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iPhone App Store

‘Little Guy’ Developers Still Doing Well in the App Store

March 16, 2010

The latest set of smartphone ‘industry pulse’ data from Flurry Analytics has some encouraging numbers for smaller, startup type iPhone app developers and publishers.  As seen above, Flurry estimates that native iPhone developers account for 20% in the ‘Heritage Pie’ chart, second only to Online Gaming.

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Should Free iPhone Apps Be Eliminated?

December 28, 2009

My friend Joshua Schnell wrote a good post the other day at his Macgasm site – in which he talks about the iPhone App Store, something being rotten in the state of it, and how it is currently broken and in danger of losing more good developers.
He also argues that it is time to [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions, for the App Store

December 15, 2009

Just about all of us who write here are iPhone app junkies, and many of you who visit regularly have shown that you are as well.  So it’s a good bet that many of you, like us, have a sort of love/hate relationship with the App Store.  You have to love it for all [...]

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Can We Have a ‘Promotional’ Section for the App Store Please?

October 5, 2009

The screencaps above show a couple of new apps that hit the iPhone App Store over this past weekend.  One is for a Ford dealership in the Dallas Fort Worth Area; the other for a Chevy Pontiac Buick dealership in North Carolina.  Both are straight-up marketing / promotional apps with very limited functionality [...]

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Crazy Big iPhone Numbers: App Store Downloads Pass Two Billion

September 28, 2009

 
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users [...]

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A Great App Store Quote from a Great Mobile Developer

August 14, 2009

Ilium Software have been producing great mobile software – apps like eWallet, ListPro, and many others – on nearly every mobile platform for as long as I’ve been a mobile enthusiast (which is a long while).  Ellen Craw is one of the founders and head honchos at Ilium – someone who knows one hell [...]

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iPhone Darts App = Instant Favorite

December 29, 2008

So far, I’ve honestly found nothing at all to gripe about with this app, and lots to love about it! The only thing that’s missing when I’m playing it is a lovely pint of Strongbow or Stella to improve my game just a little :)

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Quick Look: Google Mobile’s New Voice Search Feature

December 28, 2008

The popular Google Mobile iPhone app now does voice search
I’d seen a post a few days back talking about this new feature in Google Mobile, and finally got round to installing the update and giving it a try last night (and this morning). I love the idea of this feature – press to speak, or [...]

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