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Daily iPhone App: Another World

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2011)

Yep, it's out -- Another World has finally made it to iOS, in a special anniversary edition celebrating the game's 1991 debut. The game features completely remade graphics, sounds and effects, and you can switch between the original graphics and updated HD display at any time. There are now ...

Refurbished iPads now just $299

by Mike Schramm (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Apple's got a new price on a refurbished iPad (that's an iPad 1, not the latest 2), and it's likely the lowest official price you'll ever pay for the tablet. $299 is the new magic number, for a 16 GB iPad Wi-Fi. Of course, that presumes that the unit will come back into stock, but it likely ...

Australia fights with Apple on pricing

by Mike Schramm (Aug 20th, 2011)

Apple apparently hasn't answered back the Australian government just yet about its query this week on pricing for both apps and hardware. The Australian Parliament, including Labor Minister Ed Husic, has been knocking on Apple's door trying to figure out why the company charges more for its ...

AAPL hits all-time record high

by Mike Schramm (Jul 18th, 2011)

Perhaps because of optimistic analysis going into tomorrow's conference call, Apple's stock price has hit an all-time high today. While the Dow Jones average was down overall, AAPL rose $6 at one point, hitting $371.06 as a high. That's huge -- bigger a stock price than it's ever been ...

Research shows Apple customers buy more apps, pay more for them

by Mike Schramm (Jul 11th, 2011)

A new report by analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray says that not only are Apple users buying more apps this year than in previous years, but they're also generally paying more for them. The average iPhone user will buy 83 apps in 2011, according to Munster's research, which is 61% more than ...

AAPL shares survive rebalancing on Nasdaq today

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd, 2011)

Last month the stock index Nasdaq announced that it would be rebalancing the weighting of AAPL shares to better reflect the actual number of shares floating on the market. At the time, AAPL accounted for 20.5 percent of the Nasdaq. After the rebalancing today, AAPL now accounts only for 12.5 ...

Distimo finds higher prices, slower growth in the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2011)

Distimo has released its latest publication, containing an overview of the various app stores currently running, and the findings about the Mac App Store are quite interesting. While Apple's newest App Store is not quite up to the speed of the mobile platform, it's growing quickly -- the ...

Capcom and Sega join Valentine's Day sales on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2011)

Two more big companies have joined the flurry of sales popping up around Valentine's Day next week. Sega has jumped in with prices dropped on plenty of its titles, from US$2.99 down to 99 cents. Capcom has also joined the holiday celebration, bringing Street Fighter IV down to the incredibly low ...

Counterfeit version of open source game Lugaru HD being sold on Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Another developer is offering Wolfire Game's Lugaru HD title on the Mac App Store for 1/5 of what the official game is selling for. How? As per the terms of the Humble Indie Bundle a while back, Wolfire decided to open source the game, though not its assets or characters, and the other version on ...

EA breaks records with App Store sales last quarter

by David Quilty (Feb 3rd, 2011)

While their sales may not add up to all 10 billion apps that the App Store has sold, Electronic Arts is boasting of amazing third quarter sales of its own iOS apps. Joystiq reports that COO John Schappert recently discussed just how well EA apps did during the holiday season. Schappert said, "The ...

App Store price war continues, prices drop pre-freeze

by Mike Schramm (Dec 20th, 2010)

I don't know what kind of criteria we need to hit to call the official start of an App Store price war, but quite a few companies have taken EA's lead from last week and dropped their app prices down in an attempt to get them on the top app charts before this week's store freeze by Apple. Pocket ...

EA's App Store price war

by Mike Schramm (Dec 18th, 2010)

As we previously reported, EA dropped prices on most of its iOS apps this week, and that sale sent shockwaves through the App Store's holiday season. We've seen tons of awesome new apps hit the store in the past few weeks, but if you look at the Top Paid apps right now, most of them are older EA ...

Goldman Sachs resumes Apple coverage, targets AAPL at $430

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2010)

Investing firm Goldman Sachs has decided to start covering Apple's stock profile, and that news sent the AAPL stock price up to $325.06 this morning, a nice boost from the day before. And that's not all -- not only did Goldman Sachs pull AAPL into its reporting fold, but it was about as bullish as ...

Golden Axe gets Bluetooth multiplayer, EA titles on sale

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Sega sent us a note that Golden Axe for the iPhone has been updated -- the game now offers co-op over Bluetooth, so you and a friend can grab a weapon and get to killing goblins and ogres. And I think the game has finally gotten down to a US 99 cent usual price rather than a special sale, but a ...

TUAW's Daily App: mGifts

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2010)

It's Thanksgiving week, Black Friday is coming up quick, and that means that we're knee deep in gift-shopping season. If you don't quite know what you're getting or where to get it yet, mGifts can probably help. It can't actually recommend gifts for you (we here at TUAW can take care of that part), ...