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When Johnny Carson stepped down from hosting The Tonight Show 20 years ago this week, Apple was pushing a rudimentary tablet computer called the Messagepad, and analog televisions were the primary delivery system for electronic media, news and entertainment. Back then, most of us lived on a handful ... Full Article »
Crowd-funding service Kickstarter has gained a lot of attention of late because of some massive success stories in the world of gaming, but small developers have been using the fundraising site to gather money for ambitious mobile titles almost since Kickstarter was created. In the case of iOS game ... Full Article »
The latest app to catch fire in the iTunes App Store is one that analyzes your face and judges just how ugly you really are. Dubbed, appropriately, Ugly Meter, the app isn’t exactly new. But it has received some attention over the last few weeks, as CNET reports, and because of that, it has climb ... Full Article »
At least for the time being, iOS apps that use the Dropbox SDK submitted to the iTunes App Store are being rejected. This was first pointed out by The Next Web. This allegedly has to do with Apple’s policy of disallowing apps that enable users to purchase things outside of the application, not th ... Full Article »
The time of a flagship iOS game has come to an end: Publisher ngmoco is shutting down the servers supporting Eliminate, one of the early mobile multiplayer games, and one of the first big free-to-play titles on the platform. Eliminate has stood as a banner first-person shooter on the iPhone and iPa ... Full Article »
The iTunes App Store saw a big drop-off in iPhone app downloads last month coming off a record-breaking holiday season, dropping nearly two million downloads month-to-month. As GigaOM reports, marketing research firm Fiksu marked a 30 percent decline in U.S. iPhone app downloads from February to Ma ... Full Article »
An app that allowed users to compare the quality of service of the three major iPhone carriers in the U.S. briefly made its way onto the iTunes App Store’s Top 25 list, before Apple pulled the plug on it. The app was CarrierCompare, which allowed users to quickly gauge just how strong their conne ... Full Article »
When pre-revenue startups with less than 15 employees like Instagram have 10-figure exits in less than two years, it’s reasonable to ponder how today’s app economy compares to the dot-comedy of the late nineties. One of the first people I recently asked was Matt Murphy, the partner at Kleiner P ... Full Article »
Apple’s primary focus might be to sell hardware – iPhones, iPods and iPads – but the tech giant is doing okay as a content distributor, too. Or, more than okay, as Fierce Mobile Content reports. In fact, in just the last two months, the iTunes App Store has added some 50,000 apps to its libr ... Full Article »
Not every mobile application mints a fortune for its developer. For every Draw Something, Instagram or Angry Birds that takes off, there are thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android apps that never see the light of day. But what about those titles that launch with great fanfare and promotion, attract ... Full Article »
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