Tweet Yesterday on the ComputerWorld blog Preston Gralla listed five reason why the Android app store will beat Apple’s. A more appropriate title would have been “Five reasons why the Android app store will have more apps than Apple’s”. Which, in my opinion, is a pretty ridiculous criteria for judging a beating. Any way, I [...]
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Angry Birds, angry developers, and a free copy of Almost DSLR in this week’s mobile news
Tweet Angry Birds development head, Peter Vesterbacka, says “You don’t need publishers”. Will no longer work with publisher Chillingo. On an unrelated note, EA has acquired Angry Birds publisher Chillingo. Android Developers respond to Steve Jobs comments that Apple is “thrashing Google”. While Joe Hewitt disagrees with Android’s definition of “open”. As you can see [...]
Steve Jobs announces an App Store for the Mac
Tweet Not surprisingly it was a slow news day yesterday for anything related to Apple that wasn’t the ‘Back to the Mac’ event. Therefore I figured I would post about the only (somewhat) developer related news from those announcements. Many people have predicted it but Apple has finally made an official announcement it is going [...]
We’re thrashing Google…Steve Jobs tells it like it is
Tweet It seems that Steve Jobs struck a nerve during Apple’s earnings call on Monday when he took five minutes to trash Google’s Android smart phone strategy. He said “Google likes to characterize Android as open and Apple as closed. We find that a bit disingenuous… Android is fragmented… Compare this to iPhone, where every [...]
Get Inspired, an Interview with the Developers Behind the Dribbblr iPad app
Tweet Tapmates Inc. is a privately held company based in Central Europe, and made of of 10 employees from Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States. They entered the App Store with Cookmate followed by many client apps. Their latest product is Dribbblr. MO: What is Dribbblr and when was it released? Robin Raszka: Dribbblr [...]
HTML 5 will be the downfall of the App Store
Tweet I am pretty confident in stating that the popularity of mobile apps is more than just a passing fad. While some may wish the App Store would go the way of the pet rock and bell bottoms, most people realize it is here to stay. However, some say HTML5 is the way to go [...]
Are cheap iPhone games killing the handheld gaming industry?
Tweet In last week’s news roundup I linked a story about how the founder of n-Space, Dan O’Leary, blamed low sales on the iPhone and iPod touch. It seems his Nintendo DS development company is experiencing some rough times and he needs to find a scapegoat. I would like to take a closer look at the article [...]
Win a copy of iPhone App Entrepreneur from Mobile Orchard!
Tweet On Monday we interviewed David Appleyard, author of ‘iPhone App Entrepreneur’. We are please to announce that Mobile Orchard has three copies of the PDF version to give away. To participate and enter to win a copy of ‘iPhone App Entrepreneur’ simply do this: tweet this Win a copy of iPhone App Entrepreneur from [...]
Another multi-million dollar acquisition, Cut the Rope’s inspiration and more in this week’s development news.
Tweet Japanese company DeNA acquired mobile developer Ngcomo in a deal valued at 400 million. Ngcomo has over 60 million downloads with games like Rolando and Eliminate. Nintendo DS developer says cheap iPhone games have disrupted the game industry. The cause could never be with crappy games on the DS. Interview with Instapaper founder and [...]
Must Read Interview with David Appleyard, Author of iPhone App Entrepreneur
Tweet Mobile Orchard recently had the privileged of interviewing David Appleyard, author of iPhone App Entrepreneur, which will be available today. You can check out the contents and read the forward. Mobile Orchard: First, tell us a little about yourself and the book, iPhone App Entrepreneur. David Appleyard: I’ve been an avid Apple enthusiast for [...]
