As Apple’s Social Gaming Plans Emerge, Mobile Social Developers Respond. Apple made a potentially big move into social gaming earlier today, announcing that it planned to introduce a new “Game Center” along with the fourth version of its iPhone operating system.
The Game Center will take the form of an app that comes pre-installed with the OS, from what we can see in Apple’s presentation today, and the preview will be available in the summer before it fully launches in the fall. The Game Center appears similar to the social layers that have been around for years on console games rather than ones driven by your existing relationships and communication channels. App Ninjas debuts Credit Card Swiper for iPhone. You might be familiar with the iPhone app from developer App Ninjas called Swipe.
It allows the user to do credit card processing on the iPhone. The developer of the app has offered up a new hardware credit card scanner that is Apple-approved called Swiper for iPhone. The credit card Swiper is designed like half of a case that the iPhone slips down into. The magnetic card reader on the bottom of the case is where the user would actually swipe a credit card. Apple’s Next iPhone and the Evolution of Mobile Commerce: Apple «