This Week in iPhone News – November 6/2009

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On November 6, 2009
Ari’s ill. If only there were a novelty app that pretended to detect swine flu so we could diagnose him! Here are a few news items to tide you over until he returns next week.

Two part Droid-vs.-iPhone series at MobileCrunch. Compares 25 features on the two phones — don’t expect an iPhone sweep!

Most Popular iPhone Apps On Twitter New from AppStoreHQ

Apple Store Abandoning WindowsCE Checkout For iPod Touch And to think that as recently as Tuesday, when buying my new laptop, I gave the geniuses a hard time for running Windows!

Carmack on iPhone Fallout, Quake Live and Elves and Orcs

Flurry Industry Pulse — Oct/09 — Reports a surge in book apps and growth in the “addict” customer segment.

Apple using static analysis to detect private API use

Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale

Two iPhone Game Jam titles are making their way to the App Store:

  1. Imangi Studios (of Harbor Master fame) are finishing Hippo High Dive
  2. Gravity Sling is available now — the app is free, and features in-app purchase to buy additional levels. The Gravity Sling team promises to share the stats on the in-game buys with us; stay tuned!

Learn Corona, the toolkit for making Flash-like apps for the iPhone, from Carlos Icaza — one of its creators — in this half day seminar in San Francisco.

Send us your tips for next week’s column! Email team -at- mobileorchard.com

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