来自读写网（read write web）的消息称Apple旗下的iPad和iPhone将为游戏开发者（去开发者聚合平台，英文）提供更多的机会。我们从下列的数据列表中可以看到，在 iPad和iPhone的应用中iPad的游戏应用比例超过30%而iPhone的游戏应用更是超过了50%，逼近60%。

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Apple游戏中心正在试图在社交游戏方面和Facebook展开竞争。来自second shares（看看second shares都在报道什么）的一篇文章爆料说社交游戏领头羊zygna已经创造出了超过50亿美元。和facebook不太相像的是Apple暂时还不能提供玩家和朋友之家的相互连接，而这正是他们接下来极力想推动的，他们甚至将允许用户发起多人邀请游戏。

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Most of the initial buzz surrounding Apple’s announcement on Thursday of its new operating system, iPhone OS 4, centered on the support for multitasking. While this feature has been long anticipated by users and developers alike, another important but less discussed aspect of the update involves Apple’s Game Center – a social gaming network to be launched for iPhone and iPod Touch later this summer. Similar to the networks already prevalent in console gaming, Apple’s Game Center will allow friend invitations and multiplayer game-play and will include matchmaking and high-score tracking.

The Game Center may be Apple’s attempt to compete with Facebook’s dominance over the hugely popular and incredibly lucrative area of social gaming. A report released this week suggested that the gaming company Zynga, maker of six of the seven most popular social games, is worth over $5 billion.

Unlike Facebook, Apple does not currently have a social network upon which to automatically connect players and friends, although implementation of the Game Center may well bring this about.

Details about the Game Center were not explicit in Thursday’s announcement, although the beta release of the operating system will include a developer preview of Game Center and contain a set ofAPIs so that mobile game developers can build apps that take advantage of the social gaming network capabilities.

Echoing the popularity of gaming on the iPhone, initial analytics since the iPad release point to the continued domination of the App Store by gaming and entertainment applications. The updates to the iPhone OS could provide an opportunity for mobile and social game developers and for entrepreneurs in the gaming industry.

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