iPhone Strayed Into The Gaming
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Nov-28-2011
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Market research firm IHS Screen Digest data show that last year the mobile application market grew 160% to $ 2.2 billion, which accounted for 83% of the App Store.
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Market research firm IHS Screen Digest data show that last year the mobile application market grew 160% to $ 2.2 billion, which accounted for 83% of the App Store. According to the mobile advertising company MobClix said that in the App Store section of more than 409 000 applications, 17% of the game. Investment firm Sanford Bernstein estimates that up to 180 models in the popular App Store for free applications, games, accounting for one-third; the highest paid in the popular applications, games accounted for 55%. For most of the revenue from hardware sales for Apple, which has been quite good.
Investment firm Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pacheco Special (Michael Pachter) pointed out that the Big Apple to become the game is almost an accident,; game is very important for Apple, but involved in the game area is accidental;, the real intention is to sell Apple's iPod , iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV and other hardware. Apple iPhone, first published in 2007, company CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) is positioning its mobile phones, portable Internet access terminal and the iPod. IPhone hackers security mechanisms, and self-developed game, iPhone has become a game. Game publisher Electronic Arts, senior vice president Travis Portman (Travis Boatman) said; In my opinion, the original Apple iPhone will not recognize the field in the game have such a big impact. ;
But Apple quickly realized that this, in March 2008 released the iPhone Software Development Kit, released in July App Store. In August, App Store daily sales of more than $ 1 million applications, of which over a quarter of the game. 1 month later, Apple iPod Touch price from $ 299 down to $ 229, and will begin advertising its called in the game equipment. Pachter said; which reflects the genius of Steve Jobs, even in the case of unclear reasons, he quickly realized that the iPhone would play an important role in the game field. ; Jobs also realized that Apple should not compete with other application developers. Apple just released in July 2008, the first and last a iOS game. The fall of 2008, Stanford University assistant professor Ge Wang (Ge Wang) to spend seven weeks developed an application that allows for the electronic version of the Ocarina iPhone incarnations. More than 500 million users downloaded the application of this price of 99 cents.
Amazon in March unveiled Android application store, Google's Android Market to the challenge. Although the Android Apple in the smartphone dominance poses a challenge, but the developers said, is not a lack of consistency makes it an ideal application platform, especially games. Game start-up companies OpenFeint founder, CEO Seth Johnson Ron (Jason Citron) hope to narrow the gap between iOS and Android. Apple released the Game Center, the Somerset Ron quickly added this feature for the Android, and Android make iOS player game players can rally. He also helped develop games for Android developers. OpenFeint 3 also announced cooperation with NINE's Fund9 to developers to pay the cost of game ported to
Android. Apple and Android together on a threat to the traditional game business. In March, organized by the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata (Satoru Iwata) complained that the cheap games on mobile devices causing injury to the gaming industry. App Store has a high popularity of each application will be accompanied by a large number of; losers;. Released from the App Store, Apple has to be divided into a developer about $ 2 billion revenue. However, if the average spread over all the 40 million lines of application, and each is only $ 5,000. Electronic Arts to its variety of popular game ported to the iOS, but the investment of each game are very cautious, because not each have access to great success; this is all entertainment law of the market, iPhone is no exception;.
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