HotHardware: Rovio, creator of the wildly popular Angry Birds franchise, has every reason to smile. The developer announced its financial results for the company's full calendar year for 2012, noting that total consolidated full year revenue ballooned to €152.2 million (around $195 million), up more than 100 percent compared to 2011.
Planet Ivy: Literally anyone can intuit how a touchscreen catapult works, and the demographic-sweeping genius of cartoony violence shouldn’t be underestimated; here is a textbook deployment of the kind of mild excitement which never threatens to disturb an obligatory, public transport-ready mask of indifference.
Geek: Whereas most people mindlessly play Angry Birds on our morning commute, swiping away at the slingshot while we occasionally look up to check the stop, artist Evan Roth had another idea in mind for Rovio’s game.
Gadgehit.com writes: "A company has been fined for using the Angry Birds and Cut the Rope apps to trick users into signing up for premium rate text messages. PhonepayPlus, a subsidiary of telecommunications regulator Ofcom, said it received 34 complaints related to unexpected charges that were triggered by the download of the apps."
I would think something was up if I went to download a popular app
and it only had 10k downloads...
I kinda wish Google would review apps. Well actually.....since they removed all the emulators they should. They remove emulators and protect the companies, but won't do the same favor for the customer?
I mostly say that because I'm tired of shuffling through pages of crap to find something decent (but then again the Ipod is like that too....)
