Apple was recently sued in a class action suit over minors who were able to download in app purchases for their games without the permission of the account holder. Apple defended the suit at first but recently...

$7 billion sounds like a lot of money. That’s how much Apple has paid out to developers making apps for the Apple Appstore since the Appstore was launched in 2008. Given that 30/70 split in the favour...

Apple yesterday announced the iPad Mini. My Twitter feed was full of discussion, disappointment and tweets to articles on Gizmodo like this one. The heart of the article is that, compared with the Kindle Fire and Nexus...

Apple is not known as the most responsive company in the world. It is run in the image of its late autocratic founder. The latest class action lawsuit filed against Apple ought to prompt it to change its...

Wondering how much money you could make by introducing in-app purchases to your games? GAMESbrief has the figures you need to read on IAP revenues and players’ purchasing behaviours: Last November, in-app purchases represented 30% of all iOS...

As I’ve said a lot (and it’s fairly common knowledge), when Apple features you, your sales rise in an entirely predictable and reassuringly reliable manner. Last time Hard Lines got featured it was in the ‘New &...

if you sell iPhone games, you probably promote them, right? Did you know that Apple encourages other people to promote them too? Through affiliate network LinkShare, Apple enables anyone to get a 5% cut of the revenue...