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Storm8 and Disney share big app download figures from the holiday season

by Mike Schramm (Jan 2nd, 2013)

Here are two more companies that had a big holiday season on the App Store. First up, mobile developer Storm8 has posted some information about how its holiday went, and as you can see above, December 25 was a pretty big day for them. They saw more than 2 million downloads of their apps in just ...

Wizkids and Marvel's HeroClix TabApp spoils its chance to innovate

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2012)

A few weeks ago, I posted about the HeroClix TabApp that was recently released on the App Store, an iPad app that has the ability to interact with a special set of figurines designed to be used with Marvel's very popular HeroClix collectible game. Wizkids kindly got in touch with me after that ...

HeroClix gets a TabApp, combining physical figures with digital gameplay

by Mike Schramm (Sep 24th, 2012)

HeroClix is an official superhero collectible figure game that's been around for a while -- I remember the thing first starting to get popular when I was a kid. The company has just released a tie-in app for the iPad called the TabApp, and it sounds very interesting. You can supposedly use the ...

iPad accounts for 8 percent of global mobile PC shipments

by David Quilty (Dec 6th, 2010)

Apple is the number one mobile PC manufacturer in North America and third overall in the world, according to published results from research company DisplaySearch. While these rankings account for all of Apple's mobile computers combined, the iPad accounted for 8 percent of mobile computer ...

(i)Pawn is an iPhone game with screen-reactive pieces

by Mike Schramm (Aug 26th, 2010)

This is one of the cooler things I've seen done with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen. (i)Pawn is a game of sorts that works with a series of little figures on tokens that actually interact with the touchscreen itself. Most of the time, you need actual flesh to interact with the iPhone's screen, ...

Billboard: iTunes prices up, sales down

by Mike Schramm (Apr 13th, 2009)

I coulda told you this, though I am a little surprised that we've seen the results so fast. Despite iTunes having put the new tiered pricing into effect just last week, Billboard is reporting that they've already seen sales drop on the higher-priced tunes. The iTunes Top 100 chart has 40 different ...

iPhone owners make up 14% of mobile game downloaders

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2009)

Hot off the heels of the news that the iPhone is dominating independent mobile gaming comes this interesting statistic: 14% of all people downloading mobile games are doing so on an iPhone. Market research group comScore says that not only is the iPhone picking up double digits of all game downloads ...

Three million iPhone 3Gs sold in first month

by Robert Palmer (Aug 11th, 2008)

A month ago, Apple was crowing about selling one million iPhone 3G handsets over its opening weekend. In a month, they've tripled that figure. According to Fortune and analyst Michael Cote of the (eponymous and nascent, from what I can Google) Cote Collaborative, Apple has already hit the three ...

Microsoft copied the only iPod they could

by David Chartier (Nov 30th, 2006)

John Gruber has penned an interesting observation of how Microsoft might very well have missed the mark from the get-go when they made the strange decision to take on the iPod and iTunes. Since the player's initial wiz-bang sales period is essentially over (as in: it more or less set a decent sales ...