Players can either collect or purchase coins via in-app purchase to feed critters and restore energy.
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Beyond all the in-app purchase nonsense, Final Fantasy All the Bravest actually works.
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Downloading In-App Purchase hosted content in iOS Simulator is not supported.
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Even though mobile app world is now dominated by free downloads equipped with in-app purchase strategies, there are some premium price apps that are doing well.
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Apple also provides developers great ways to monetize apps including in-app purchase, subscriptions and advertising, and helps market and support developer efforts in the App Store and beyond.
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Most of these new generation strategy and simulation games featured seductive in-app purchase strategies that turned consumers into permanent cash cows, trickling dollars to vendors on a weekly basis.
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And whereas the Post will sell subscriptions directly to readers as an in-app purchase, the News, having no preexisting digital sales apparatus, is forced to let Apple handle the transaction, and take its usual 30 percent cut.
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Camera Awesome is free, but it is only available for Apple's iOS devices. (SmugMug CEO and Chief Geek Don MacAskill, says an Android app is in the works.) Though the app includes 36 free effects, including presets, filters, textures and frames, 261 effects must be bought as an in-app purchase for 99 cents per set of nine.
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Version 1.8 also includes safety camera alerts as an In App Purchase, an at-a-glance traffic gage and a new NAVTEQ map.
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The costs quickly get steep, and players are encouraged but thankfully not nagged to purchase additional coins via in-app purchases.
Players are encouraged to purchase additional coins via in-app purchases.
This virtual currency will be available for U.S. customers to purchase apps, games, and in-app items on the Kindle Fire.
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If more detailed traffic coverage and alternate routes are needed for users who are not already using the built-in Traffic Live feature, a direct link to the In App Purchase is provided within the graphic.
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For example, in the U.S. an app purchase can be put on a T-Mobile bill.
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Players can receive in-game currency to purchase additional buildings by watching a Century 21 ad or downloading the new mobile app, which has over 3 million home listings.
Amazon announced an In-App Purchasing service, making it easy for Amazon Appstore developers to offer digital content and subscriptions for purchase within apps and games that are available on millions of Kindle Fires and other Android devices.
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