Seeking Alpha Shares Their Thoughts on iPhone Gaming and the App Store

by Jody Mitoma on September 1, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Seeking Alpha earlier today published a post in regards to iPhone gaming, and the App Store in general. They write about iPhone applications and games, Apple’s success, the App Store’s possible future, and how folks on torrent sites are getting App Store games for free.

In case you’re feeling lazy, here’s a quick snippet of what the full article reads:

As production ramps up and the iPhone 3G is introduced to many new big markets, its potential is simply phenomenal. Obviously it will be outselling every dedicated game playing machine. And with such a fantastic business model for getting product from developers to customers the game industry will see a veritable explosion.

One huge note of warning here. The Apple iPhone business model cuts out many of the functions of the publisher. The developer can easily deal directly with Apple. However it doesn’t cut out two of the most important publisher functions, finance and marketing. Finance will become more important as iPhone games get more complex and so cost more to make. Marketing is always essential and with thousands of applications competing to be downloaded from App Store it will be more critical than ever for anyone developing for this platform so as to get their work noticed.

Now, go on and visit the source link below and read the interesting article and learn why Apple’s App Store will one day become a 1 billion dollar marketplace sometime in the future — if bit torrent doesn’t take that away from us all.

(via Seeking Alpha)