It’s only been a couple of weeks since the global launch of the iPhone 4, Apple’s latest release of its award winning smart phone, and already online gambling companies have been quick to jump on the Apple band wagon. News reached us today that Probability, the gaming software company that is listed on the UK stock exchange, has released an iPhone pokies app that actually allows players to play online pokies for real money.
The app will be available to players via the Lady Luck brand and the games available to players will be limited to just three games at launch. These will include two traditional casino games (black jack and roulette) as well as one slots game (Poseidon). An additional slots game is planned to be launched later this year.
Traditionally Apple have banned real money iPhone gambling apps, the only exception being the Betfair iPhone app available which is available to residents of the UK and Ireland. Betfair have reported that they have been seeing 50% growth year on year in their mobile revenue, so it’s easy to see why so many software companies are keen to get an iPhone pokies and casino app out to smart phone users. So, Betfair aside, if gambling apps are banned at the iPhone market place, how on earth have Probability managed to produce a real money iPhone pokies app?
Well they certainly haven’t done it via the iPhone apps store. We browsed through the latest iPhone pokies and gambling apps and could only come across free play casino and poker games. The answer is that they are using a company called AdMob, and these guys specialise in the distribution of apps to the iPhone.
For those non smart phone users amongst you, the concept of an iPhone pokies app must be as far stretched as coming across a traditional mechanical 3 reel pull pokie at you local casino. However, the smart phone market is one which represents a real market for online gaming operators. In Europe alone over 3 million iPhones were sold in quarter 1, and more recently an impressive 1.4 million were sold on the a single day; the launch day of the iPhone 4.
So players keen to play pokies on their iPhone for real money now have the opportunity to do so. Exactly how Steve Jobs and Apple feel about that is another thing altogether.
Source: Onlinepokiesclub.com - the number one site for free pokies online.
Tags: iphone gambling apps, iphone pokies
This entry was written by Felix on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 at 6:30 am and is filed under Blog, News.
