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blog.wired.com - 2/16/2009

Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

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Ethan Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game. Ethan Nicholas, developer of a tank artillery game called iShoot , told ...

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fidgit.com - 2/17/2009

20 games Wired.com says you need for your iPhone

— fidgit.com — I'm actually glad I don't have an iPhone, because that narrows down the choice of games to... play by several thousand. Literally. Right now, I see 3500 games in the iTunes store. Wired says there are "over 4700", but who's counting? My mind is blown and I'm paralyzed into indecision by anything ... (more) 20 games Wired.com says you need for your iPhone

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