This Week at 148Apps: August 22-26
This week, August 22-26, Starbucks introduced a new promotion that features free app downloads for its ka-jillion coffee drinking-customers, similar to the company's method of distributing free song downloads. 148Apps writer Carter Dotson notes, "What will be interesting to see the effect this has on apps offered in the promotion; Shazam Encore has jumped up to #6 in the App Store recently, which may be due to this feature. This could be due to each redeemed copy going toward the app’s sales, or it could be because the promotion is working exactly how it’s intended; by giving the app away for free, people are talking about it and recommending it, causing other people to pay for it."
Read Carter's full article on 148Apps.com.
Also, we celebrated the at-last launch of Peggle for the iPad. This PopCap gem has been a long-time coming, but writer Lisa Caplan assures it's worth the wait: "This is classic Peggle, and for fans wondering if it’s worth buying the title one more time, the short answer is yes. If, by some chance, this is a first encounter of a Peggle kind, stop reading and start downloading."
Read all of Lisa's review on 148Apps.com.
Meanwhile, the kid-friendly folks at GiggleApps reviewed Sticker Factory, an app that, as writer Amy Solomon says, "is a great choice for grade school and up, and I would not be at all surprised if kids this age do much better at this game than I, as is the case in many speed-based games that I come across."
Read more about Sticker Factory on GiggleApps.
Finally, make sure you stop by and peruse our ever-changing map of apps on our 148Apps Lists page. Whether you're interested in finding out the latest releases, or just keeping your finger on the most-popular charts, it's all accessible through one handy page.
That's it for this week! Until next time, make sure you check in with us on Facebook or via Twitter. There are always giveaways galore going out on both sites.