Many iPhone application developers have tried to become known. From big corporations with a clear marketing budget, to small unknowns with little advertising means. Some have succeeded. Other have not. Being known on the store can be the difference in your application making $250.000<\/a> in 9 weeks, or drip-feeding you \u00c2\u00a31.79 a fortnight. I thought we’d pin-point just some of the developers (and their applications), which we think are currently front running in design, functionality and status … <\/p>\n Becoming known on the App Store relies on three factors:<\/p>\n The developers which I am going highlight have done just that. By listening to their user base they have been able to develop and improve their applications for not only the better, but also adding to them, what their user base requests.<\/p>\n —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Tapulous Inc.<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.tapulous.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Tap Tap Revenge [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Loopt<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.loopt.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Loopt [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Loopt Team<\/strong> —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Pangea Software<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.pangeasoft.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Enigmo [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Polar Bear Farm Ltd.<\/strong> \n “We strive to create exciting new applications with a focus on fresh design and addictive user experience.”<\/em><\/p>\n Source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And with currently 3 applications on the store, they sure show it. Polar Bear Farm have so far brought you the likes of Telegram, allowing you to record short audio messages and send them between other users and groups on the service, or alternatively to any email address. Note Pad, full featured notes for the iPhone and Dictaphone, which we recently reviewed<\/a> as being ‘the voice recorder to take note of’.<\/p>\n Official Site:<\/strong> www.polarbearfarm.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Telegram [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n MooCowMusic<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.moocowmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Band [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n EA (Electronic Arts)<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.ea.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Tetris [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Gameloft<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.gameloft.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Asphalt 4 Elite Racing [App Store<\/a>] —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Demiforce<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.demiforce.com<\/a><\/p>\n Releases (to date)<\/strong><\/p>\n Trism [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n —————————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Vivendi GAMES Mobile<\/strong> Official Site:<\/strong> www.vgmobile.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\nBased in Silicon Valley, Northern California, Tapulous are a company devoted to bringing social-based, gorgeously designed applications to iPhone. While recently ejecting it’s founder and architect Mike Lee, the company has gained a status to be reckoned with. They first hit the store with the smash hit Tap Tap Revenge, the Guitar Hero alternative. In less than 2 months they’d gained a astronomical 1M users. Next was Twinkle<\/a>. Taking the simplicity of Twitter and an eye-candy filled UI, Tapulous designed what we argue to be the best Twitter client for iPhone to date, barring Twitteriffic. But they are not stopping there. Tapulous already have two more applications in the pipeline. Collage and Fortune. We recently gave you a heads up<\/a> on Collage, saying it would be ‘the only way to share photos on iPhone’<\/em> and we truly believe it will be. Finally fortune is a fun little application resembling a fortune cookie. It’s unclear whether these applications will be free as of yet, but seeing as though Tap Tap and Twinkle have no price, I doubt they’ll charge for either of new these titles, although i could be wrong.<\/p>\n
\nTwinkle [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nAlso based in Silicon Valley, Loopt has created a revolutionary social-mapping service that changes the way friends connect, share and explore in the mobile environment. Loopt for iPhone helps friends connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events. With only one release on the store to date, and currently only available in the US, Loopt is a social networking tool with a difference. You may remember Loopt was showcased as up-coming on the store at WWDC08.<\/p>\n
\nSam (Founder), Sam, Mauricio, Evan, Smak, Ra, Rama, Tom, Aroon,
\nAlok, Rick, Chelsea, Fred, Leo, Min, Nick, Steve, Tony, Brian, Stephane,
\nTommy, Brian and Nini.<\/p>\n
\nBased in Austin, Texas, and founded by Brian Greenstone<\/a>, Pangea software is dedicated to bringing unique, fun concepts to the Mac and iPhone platforms. Also featured at WWDC08 with one of their first titles Enigmo, Pangea have gone from strength to strength since the birth of the App Store. They currently have five titles live on the store including; their popular physics-based puzzle Enigmo, an adventure game Bugdom 2, their Caveman racer Cro-Mag Rally, western Billy Frontier and finally their virtual VR application, PangeaVR. They seem to listen contently to their user base, and only release titles which are actually wanted!<\/p>\n
\nBugdom 2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nCro-Mag Rally [App Store<\/a>]
\nBilly Frontier [App Store<\/a>]
\nPangea VR [App Store<\/a>]
\nPangea VR Pro [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nHQ Christchurch, New Zealand. Polar Bear Farm were founded in 2007 just after the iPhone Classic’s introduction. They say:<\/p>\n
\nTelegram (Lite) [App Store<\/a>]
\nNote Pad [App Store<\/a>]
\nDictaphone [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nAlso featured at WWDC 08, and based in the UK, individual part-time iPhone developer Mark Terry in early 2007 developed an application called ‘Band’. Recently seen on jail broken devices, it took the world by storm. Here was a one-man-show who had completely revolutionised how we would make Music on iPhone for possibly years to come. MooCowMusic is now much larger than one man, and they currently have three truly stunning titles on the store. Band, Pianist and Guitarist – and as of writing this, due to MooCowMusic going worldwide on Friday, they are having a sale over this weekend, all products reduced in price!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPianist [App Store<\/a>]
\nGuitarist [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nBy no means a stranger to the gaming market, console gaming giant EA dropped onto the store with a bang this September, when they released the very popular title Tetris, and the long waited tilt controlled title Spore: Origins.<\/p>\n
\nSpore Origins [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nA developer we all know, Gameloft specialises in bringing great games to iPhone and other platforms. With a massive 10 titles currently on the store, it’s no wonder that Gameloft are have prominent status.<\/p>\n
\nBackgammon Classics [App Store<\/a>]
\nBlock Breaker Deluxe 2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nBrain Challenge\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nBubble Bash\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nChess Classics [App Store<\/a>]
\nDiamond Twister [App Store<\/a>]
\nPlatinum Solitaire\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nPlatinum Sudoku\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 [App Store<\/a>]
\nReal Football 2009 [App Store<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nSteve Demeter, the developer who made $250.000<\/strong> in 9 weeks<\/a>. Currently with only one title on the store, Trism – the unique puzzler, Demiforce are certainly turning out to be a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n
\nQuite an active mobile games developer, VGMobile smashed onto the store, with the store-topping title ‘Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D’. <\/p>\n