Yesterday the Washington Post published an article that the FTC will review Apple iPhone in-app purchases. This is said to be necessary as many children may not understand the consequences of the purchases they make in games, leaving parents with high end of the month credit card bills. The FTC will according to their Chairman Jon [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, Windows Marketplace for Mobile (6.x), and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace during January 2011. The major findings are: Two [...]
Next week, the GSMA Mobile World Congress will be held in Barcelona. From the Distimo team, Remco van den Elzen, Ruben Heerdink and Vincent Hoogsteder will be attending the conference. If you would like to meetup, we are joining the following sessions: App Planet Forum: Making Apps Profitable Vincent will be joining this panel moderated [...]
Recently, RIM introduced a Payment Service SDK to enable in-app payments for developers. This morning (European time-zone), an update of BlackBerry App World was released that now supports in-app purchases. The first applications that offer these purchases to consumers are already available. One of these applications is Hockey Scores. This app offers daily NHL scores [...]
About a week ago we wrote about RIM enabling in-app purchases and as of yesterday in-app billing is available in Google Android Market as well. Developers can start developing by following the step-by-step guide, however in-app purchases will only be available in Google Android Market 2.3.0. So for the time being, use is limited to testing [...]