Tag: app store

  • Can $20 apps survive in the iTunes App Store?

    Recently, I was looking at the new apps featured in the iTunes App Store and one got my immediate attention. It wasn’t for the name (I had never heard of it before) – it was for the price. The game was $19.99. My immediate reaction was “Wow! That is never going to sell.” Then I…

  • Mobile apps for business are on the rise

    Mobile apps for business are on the rise

    In today’s app stores, there are thousands, if not millions of downloading choices. There are games, reward programs, platforms to help keep us up on sports, and other options most have yet to discover. With all this success, the professional field has begun to take notice. No more are apps only for-fun, now users can…

  • Game review: Letterpress is an addictive word game crippled by Game Center glitches

    The rise of touch-based gaming has brought on a lot of interesting takes on old games as well as completely new gaming ideas, but browsing through Apple’s App Store for word games, there are really only four options: Scrabble, crossword puzzles, hangman, and the various clones of each. Even the popular Words With Friends is just a…

  • Apple’s App Store Hits One Billion Downloads

    At approximately 2pm on April 23rd, 2009 the 1,000,000,000th application was downloaded from Apple’s App Store since it first launched only nine months ago.  Although the App Store has had its fair share of problems (and it seems that developers are still getting stuck in the application approval process), this statistic is a significant milestone…