Drunk Sharpie Attack is another great iPhone app created by bees4honey! Drunk Sharpie Attack is an entertainment app which helps you to create awesome pictures of your drunk friends and show it to everyone on Facebook!
Get your Drunk Sharpie ready, then…Attack!
Mark up your drunk, passed out friends with a Sharpie and funny icons!
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One more iPhone app developed by bees4honey team is now available on the AppStore! It’s iOrder Drinks Pro!
Pro version includes a new drink list for “Low-Calorie” drinks. Also, Pro includes social networking support. You can now tweet your drink order and upload your drink order as a status on Facebook!
One of the major reasons of iPhone success is AppStore. This service despite of small revenue which it in fact generates, makes much more indirectly as far as it increases sales of iPhone, iPad and iPod.
In accordance with Piper Jaffray research profit from AppStore is only 1% of Apple’s gross profit since June 2008 when AppStore was launched.
Apple iAd is a new and revolutionary mobile advertising platform announced during iOS 4 presentation. Jobs said that they love that there are huge apps available for free on the AppStore. Developers of free apps earn their money by running ads. But as Jobs said most advertisement platforms available now sucks. Apple iAd is created to help developers to make some money and keep free apps free.
iOrder Drinks is a great app for iPhone and iPod Touch which helps you to order drinks in bars faster. If you are in overcrowded bar it can be quite difficult to make your order, but now with iOrderDrinks it’s much easier! No more confusion about what drinks you are ordering at crowded, loud bars.
iOrder Drinks will make ordering faster and easier! Here how it works:
In April 2010 during iOS 4 presentation Steve Jobs announced new advertisement platform – iAd. This platform is intended to allow developers of free apps to earn on their apps showing advertisement. The main idea of iAd is to connect interactivity (using smartphone or tablet) and emotionality of advertisement (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, multi-touch). It allows to create absolutely awesome advertisement which looks like apps with video and audio. In addition, iAd ads is opened inside the app and user do not exit his app and can get back anytime he wants.
Below is the guide on how to add iAd banner into iPhone app. Guide is based on iAd Programming Guide and WWDC 2010 video.
One of our first iPhone puzzles – Brain Twister published quite long time ago still gets downloads. BTW it’s a free puzzle game for iPhone so download it from iPhone AppStore and check it out yourself. Brain twister is very hard puzzle game which should be solved in 40 steps.
We’d like to help our customers in solving it, so this post will explain you how to solve Brain Twister exactly in 40 steps. It’s easier than you though!
As it already known, Apple announced new social gaming platform – Apple Game Center. It will allow gamers to invite friends, compare themselves to other players, earn achievements and will do automatic matchmaking. Game Center will also help people to discover new apps what is also great both for developers and gamers.
Games category is the largest category in the AppStore and games are dominating overall bestsellers list. There are already over 50 000 games in the AppStore(it’s much more than, for example, on Sony PSP or Nintendo DS). In addition, Apple has really huge army of gamers on iPhones, iPods and now iPads. It seems that Apple has a really good chance to dominate this market and provide its customers with even better experience.
There are already lots of social gaming platforms for iPhone gamers, such as OpenFeint, Plus+ and others. OpenFeint, for example, provides achievements, challenges and leaderboards support and also community tools like chat and forums. In addition there are some tools helping developers to market their apps. OpenFeint is integrated in about 1800 iPhone games.
Some time ago we, at bees4honey, decided to integrate OpenFeint in our games. We started with Jewelcart PRO which now have OpenFeint features support. We are happy to provide our customers with awesome social features. And what is also important for us as iPhone developers – OpenFeint will help devs to integrate with Apple Game Center! So developers can manage their apps from one dashboard.
It’s an awesome step by OpenFeint, perhaps they can keep current developers and users base. But we’ll see later this summer what will happen with Plus+, OpenFeint and other social gaming platforms for iPhone.
There is no much info for developers about Apple Game Center, so it’s better to continue providing our users with awesome experience and wait for more info about Apple Game Center.
Pricing strategy for iPhone app is a very important thing which affects revenue. Choosing right pricing model for your iPhone app is quite difficult. It heavily depends on your app and on your potential customers auditory.
In this post we’d like to overview and try to understand in which ways developer can monetize iPhone app. We will not discuss advertisement models, because we believe that ads fit only specific group of apps. Most of the iPhone apps should not have ads in them, because it distracts user and will not generate much revenue.
So let’s take a deeper look at monetization strategies that presuppose that you are going to sell something on the AppStore. There are no many options to choose:
