Gameloft backs iPhone and backs away from Android

November 23rd, 2009 admin
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Filed under: iPhone To iPhone or not to iPhone? That is the question on which a number of high-profile app developers are weighing-in. A couple of weeks ago it was Facebook app developer Joe Hewitt and software maker Rogue Amoeba saying they’d had enough of jumping through hoops to be on the iPhone and that they’d be working on other things. Last week, Instapaper web-service and iPhone app [ iTunes link ] developer Marco Arment said…


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