Natalia Luckyanova, half of iPhone Gaming’s cutest couple, wrote to share their experience giving away 1000 copies of Harbor Master using the new Gift-This capability of the App Store. Here’s what she had to say, emphasis added by me: We decided to try a mass giveaway to see how gifting really works. We gave away [...]
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This Week in iPhone & iPad News – March 26/2010
Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App Take a look at some of the interesting features in a new Wikipedia app for the iPhone. iPad Developers Code Their Apps in the Dark While Apple says that iPad applications can be submitted next week to coincide with opening of the iPad App Store, most iPad developers [...]
Corona On Android
Lately Android has been on my radar. It’s gone from easy to ignore to something impossible to ignore. I’ve tried to ignore it because I don’t care for Java. It’s a fine language, but it’s not for me. So, I’ve been quietly learning Scala to use instead. Then this came across my inbox today: Corona, [...]
Apple Adds “Gift This App”
Last October, I wrote a piece prodding Apple to add Gift This App capabilities — similar to the existing “Gift This Song” — to the App Store. Now, according to this TUAW story, you can! This is going to be big. Expect to see a raft of clever promotional uses of this capability.
This Week in iPhone & iPad News – March 19/2010
GDC 2010: The Best of Both Worlds: Using UIKit with OpenGL Slides from Noel Llopis’ session at GDC this year are now available. How to Make Your Own iPhone RFID Reader iPhone/iPad Developer Events (Google account required) API enables developers to register multiple apps to Medialytics at once Medialet’s has been busy upgrading their analytics [...]
This Week in iPhone & iPad News – March 12/2010
News from GDC this week: GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model Is Ngmoco alienating fans of some of their favorite games because of the continued use of the “freemium” business model? GDC 2010: Street Fighter 4 for iPhone Out Now Some say you can’t experience Street Fighter 4 on a touch-screen device. I think [...]
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Cult Of Mac Monday Promo-Code Giveaways
The popular Apple fanboi site Cult Of Mac wants to trade you promotional codes for visibility. More specifically, they’re building a regular Monday promo code giveaway feature and are looking for app devs/publishers to volunteer some codes. They’ve got a respectable 6,000 Twitter followers and around 2,400 Facebook fans. Zealots are valuable in word-of-mouth campaigns. [...]
GDC: iPhone Developer’s Union Party Tomorrow (Weds) Night
GDC is on in San Francisco this week and, with it, comes the iPhone Developer’s Union party. The party’s free to attend and open to all. Come mingle with our own Ari Braginsky, indie iPhone devs and the media who cover them. Where/When: Marriott Lobby Bar (across from Moscone West). Weds, March 10 @ 8pm. [...]
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New iPhone Wax Version: New XML, JSON, SQLite Extensions & More
iPhone Wax is a framework that lets you write native iPhone apps in Lua. Developing in Lua is fast and objects are garbage collected. Wax bridges Objective-C and Lua using the Objective-C runtime. With Wax, anything you can do in Objective-C is automatically available to you in Lua. Wax has been in active development since [...]
This Week in iPhone & iPad News – March 5/2010
The big story this week: Apple filed a patent lawsuit against HTC. Some of the coverage includes: Engadget’s Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents The Register’s Apple turns the flamethrower on Android Wil Shipley’s Open Letter to Steve Jobs This week’s yanked from the store apps include: WiFi Detectors Other news: Virgin America [...]
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