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Admit it, what would you really like to do: manage your calendar or race a monkey encased in a transparent ball through a dazzling 3-D landscape of obstacles? iPhone users have voted for the latter; Super Monkey Ball ($9.99) is one of a raft of games and entertainment titles for the iPhone atop both the […]

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Aug 26, 2008
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Admit it, what would you really like to do: manage your calendar or race a monkey encased in a transparent ball through a dazzling 3-D landscape of obstacles?

iPhone users have voted for the latter; Super Monkey Ball ($9.99) is one of a raft of games and entertainment titles for the iPhone atop both the free and paid list of applications available for download at the company’s online App Store.

Of the free applications on a recent check, the top five were all games including “Brain Tuner”, one of the emerging “exercise your mind” class of games that aren’t just, well, pointless.

Number four is the recently launched Audi A4 Driving Challenge, which uses the iPhone’s motion sensing accelerometerto help users virtually drive a simulated version of Audi’s latest car in a racing challenge game. It also happens to be a business application – at least for the publisher, carmaker Audi.

“We’re trying to drive awareness for the A4 leading up to its launch in September,” Jeri Ward, manager of marketing strategies at Audi, told InternetNews.com. “”We wanted to reach consumers and engage them in a unique way with content about the car that’s helpful.”

Ward said Audi is thrilled with the early results that show the game is getting plenty of downloads at the App Store. “Customers are the toughest critics and the pass along factor and the willingness to write reviews is a real test of how compelling something is,” she said.

While Apple is already busy qualifying thousands of titles for the App Store, you can expect the pipeline isn’t likely to slow anytime soon from big commercial developers, startups and individuals for the hot selling device. Ward said Audi used its digital agency, Factory Design Labs in Denver, to develop Driving Challenge and it only took them two weeks. “You can’t develop a television ad in two weeks, that’s for sure,” she said.

A mix of serious and fun

“My friends can’t believe it when I say I haven’t found a compelling app for the iPhone yet,” said Kato, a podcaster and member of Stanford’s New Media Center.

But if nothing’s reached the compelling or killer app level for Kato, it’s the broad range of fun and useful applications on the iPhone he said puts it in a class by itself and its utility as a mobile Web browser. He thinks the games are moving up the App Store charts because a growing number of teenagers are getting iPhones and using them for entertainment instead of dedicated portable game systems like the Nintendo DS.

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David Needle is a veteran technology reporter based in Silicon Valley. He covers mobile, big data, customer experience, and social media, among other topics. He was formerly news editor at Infoworld, editor of Computer Currents and TabTimes, and West Coast bureau chief for both InformationWeek and Internet.com.

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