[Scummvm-devel] Article about iPhsoft in Israeli media

[Ori Avtalion]

Hi,

You might find this interesting.

Here's an article about iPhSoft and other Israeli iPhone developers that 
was published today in a major newspaper (and website):

http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3341767,00.html

And here's my translation of the part about iPhSoft:

 From pirated Hebrew to games
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Two Israelies that, up until now, have made very high incomes from the 
iphone are Liron Barzilay and Yinon Yamin - and they've done it without 
any connection to the appstore. Barzilay and Yamin are behind the 
iPhoneHE program, "the pirate Hebrew" that has been installed on about 
10,000 devices and more, that were imported to Israel in the years 
2007-2008. In 2008 they begine charging for the installation of the 
program, and by the end of that year have ammassed, with their partners 
to development, more than a million NIS (~$250k).

Competng software and the official support of Hebrew in the new version 
of the device may put iPhoneHE out of business, but not Barzilay and 
Yamin. The two have started the iPhSoft iPhone software development 
company that today has 5 employees. The first application development in 
the company, the game Flight of the Amazon Queen, is earning them more 
than 50k NIS a month (~$12.5k), they say. Soon they are planning to 
launch 4 more games, and applications that they are developing for 
commercial companies including, they say, AT&T, the official distributor 
of the iPhone in the US.

"The iPhone is the new PC", says Yamin. "In the next two years tens of 
companies will start developing for the iPhone, games, gimicky 
applications and useful software. It's a market that already today rolls 
millions of dollars in development, and it can't be ignored." Barzilay 
adds: "The potential in the field is almost limitless. Already many 
Israeli companies want's to be present on the iPhone

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One of the comments says "FOTAQ was released in 1994 and in 2004 its 
code was moved to the public domain, so all they did was wrap it in an 
iPhone-friendly package, which is a nice business venture (although it 
"rides" on the effort of others), but it's light years away from 
developing an independent game"

-Ori