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Call for “Real” iPhone Game Reviews is Almost a Bribe

Friday, November 13, 2009

Supposedly fed up with “the tide of fake App Store reviews,” iPhone game developer G5 entertainment wants your honest opinion, and plans to get it by giving away free games. For its latest release, Judgment Day War, G5 is looking for reviews in exchange for a chance to win one of its earlier games. Before submitting [...]

Booyah Society Treats Life Like a Game, Sort Of

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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In the same way that Booyah Society is rooting for me, I’m really hoping the new iPhone app can do better than it has. It’s an idea with a lot of promise, which is why I was excited to meet with one of the creators, Keith Lee, for lunch last week. The “social game,” as he [...]

Xbox Sells Costlier Game Downloads. Why Can’t the App Store?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Xbox Live Arcade is no longer a purveyor of quick-hit, $5 video game downloads, but a place where $15 games are beginning to thrive. That’s what Kotaku found after looking at the cost of downloadable Xbox 360 games, from the console’s launch in 2005 up to last month. The average cost of video game downloads has [...]

Comcast’s iPhone App Somewhat Comcastic

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Cable provider Comcast has joined the legions of service providers and companies creating their own iPhone apps to interface with their services and offerings. It would be most useful to those with the so called “triple play” package: cable, Internet, and phone service. The main functionality of this application splits into three parts. The first is [...]

Neat: New Yorker Cover Painted on iPhone

Monday, May 25, 2009

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When you look at this week’s New Yorker cover, you may initially think it was a watercolor. But it’s not — its done digitally, and on top of that, on the iPhone no less. Artist Jorge Columbo created the New York street scene on a program called Brushes. It is a petite 1.9MB art application available [...]

Apple Only Making $20-45m from App Store

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Lightspeed Venture Partners‘ managing director Jeremy Liew threw some cold water on Apple Thursday, saying that while the company has indeed sold some one billion apps, it likely has made no more than $45 million in revenue overall from the App Store. Liew did some research to find that only one paid app is sold for [...]

App Store Approval Now Contingent on OS 3.0 Compatibility

Friday, May 8, 2009

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Want your app in the Apple’s App Store? Better quickly make sure that it’s compatible with the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0 or it won’t get approved. Apple shocked the developer community Thursday with the announcement that it was mandating that all apps henceforth be compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, or they would be [...]

Let’s Get the App Store Approval Process Straight

Monday, May 4, 2009

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Apple is once again finding itself at the short end of the PR stick with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor publicly taking the company to task over what is clearly still a inconsistent process on Apple’s part: its approval process for App Store applications. As Jared touched on earlier this evening, an update to Reznor’s application, [...]

Just How Easy is it to Get Pirated iPhone Software?

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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You might remember Brian Chen at Wired’s reporting on iPhone App Store piracy. That got us to thinking, is it really an issue, or just an exaggeration of a minor problem? To test our theories, we decided to attempt to install a pirated app on one of our own iPhone 3G’s here at Technologizer. We’d like [...]

Study Finds 25% of App Store Apps Pirated

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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iPhone developer analytics company Medialets studied piracy on the iPhone, and found a surprising number of applications on the App Store have likely been pirated. Of the 25,000 or so on the service, approximated 5,000 of them have been cracked, allowing users to use them for free. Some applications are being pirated at as much as [...]

The Price is Right for iPhone: Almost as Good as the Real Thing!

Friday, December 12, 2008

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I’m in absolute heaven, and I don’t know how I missed this. Video game developer Ludia has released The Price is Right for the iPhone, which in my biased TPIR fanboy opinion is one of the best gaming titles I’ve seen on the App Store yet. And at $2.99 for a “limited time,” $2 less [...]

TWC Mobile for iPhone is a Weather Weenie’s Dream

Friday, November 14, 2008

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Okay, I have a confession to make. I am a certifiable weather weenie. I have been since I was a wee tot. If it wouldn’t have been for my horrible math and science grades, there’s a good chance I’d be sitting at a desk at the National Weather Service or AccuWeather right now instead of [...]

The Latest Victim of the iPhone NDA: Developer Books

Thursday, September 25, 2008

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While we’ve already discussed Apple’s NDA and the muzzle its put on App Store developers when applications get rejected, its reach apparently extends to another area as well: books. Silicon Alley Insider reported Thursday that at least one publisher–Pragmatic Programmers — has canceled its plans to publish a book on developing apps for the device [...]

Apple Makes Changes to App Store Policies

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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Stung by criticism, Apple has put a muzzle on applicants to the App Store by including the rejection letters it sends under a non-disclosure agreement. In addition, it has closed a loophole which was allowing rejected developers to find other avenues to serve their applications to users. The newest rejection letters come complete with a warning [...]

Maybe They Shoulda Called It the McCainBerry

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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As you may have noticed, we rarely broach the topic of politics here on Technologizer. We endorse no party, nor any candidate for any office. But some stories are too entertaining not to tackle.