This Week in iPhone News – January 15/2010

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On January 15, 2010

The Apple App Store Economy A neat infographic summarizing the Apple app store economy.

Apple App Store Has Lost $450MM to Piracy An analysis of the potential losses affecting the Apple app store due to jailbroken phones and piracy.

Chomp Now Live and Ready to Bite into iPhone App Recommendations A new iPhone app is now available to help you review and recommend applications.

20,000 First Week Sales of Google’s Nexus One Don’t gloat, but read the analysis.

iPhone vs. Nexus One MG Siegler’s take after one week with the Google phone.

Apple App Store Suddenly Much Friendlier I’ve noticed this myself as I recently submitted an application to the App Store and it was approved less than 24 hours later. Perhaps competition from Android and other devices is influencing this new direction?

Slides and supporting material from Doug Turner’s talk on OpenGL. Love the “I’m a Mac/Cocoa, I’m a PC/OpenGL” visual.

Google Translate and iPhone Apps An interesting use of the Google Translate API in order to help dynamically localize your iPhone application.

Two OSS projects, InAppSettings and InAppSettingsKit popped up this week that both show an in-app view controller to make changes in the Setting.bundle. A comparison chart and screenshots by the author of InAppSettings.

Stanford’s iPhone Application Development Course is Back Get out your notebooks because the Winter session of the popular Stanford iPhone Application Development Course is back with new and improved features.

Manning’s iPhone In Action 2nd Edition is almost unrecognizable from the 1st edition. Lots of new SDK content including Game Kit, Push Notification, In-App Purchases. The code “moborc2” saves you 50% on the book from their site through 1/27.

iPhone Memory Debugging with NSZombie and Instruments A handy overview of why it’s important to use Instruments to help you debug memory issues on the iPhone.

Open Source Flash Runtime in Pure JavaScript with SVG An impressive demo of how to execute .SWF files on the iPhone using only Safari and JavaScript with SVG.

Voice Samples from the iPhone A collection of spoken word voice samples from the iPhone.

Want to write iPhone apps in C#? InfoQ presents a general introduction and an intro to MVC in MonoTouch.

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