Apple has good news for iPhone developers; the company has allowed in-app purchases for free apps. This means that the famous Fremium model can now be implemented on the iPhone apps. This will lead to new opportunities for the developers who were looking for the monetization aspect of the iPhone apps to grow.

This is rather surprising news for all of us as Apple had clearly wiped out any hopes of allowing in-app purchases for free apps, when it had announced the model for the premium apps. In-app purchasing will prove to be a valuable point for free gaming apps. Developers will now be able to offer their apps for free downloading and once the user likes it he can purchase the enhanced features down the lane. This would also increase the number of installs and developers will not have to come with a new version of app just to introduce more features, as they did up till now.

According to some speculation, as to why Apple not initially allowed in-app purchases for the free apps, were basically two concerns that the company had. One being that this would open grounds for developers to entice users with the free useless content and later sell the improved features. The other concern was about Apple’s payment system, which will lose user’s credit card information if he buys free apps only. Seems like the company revised its policy for no clear reason because the concerns it had for not permitting it earlier remain intact.

For whatever reason may be, the news is great for iPhone developers. Let’s see how the app store now rages with free apps embedded with free in-app purchasing model.

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If you are one of the gaming freaks who were longing to see Grand Theft Auto series on their iPhones, then their luck just shined. Rockstar Games, the developers behind the scene just announced recently that they are going to bring their popular game, Grand theft Auto: China town Wars on the app store.

Chinatown Wars that is currently a hit on the Nintendo DS, is coming pretty soon on the Sony PlayStation in October, and is likely to hit app store after that.

Rockstar is confident enough to add its thrilling game, which already has a fan following, to the app store this fall. According to the company this is the perfect time for bringing the long deserved title to the iPhone.

The point of concern arises from the fact that the game is already imported from conventional handheld devices so how would it look different on the iPhone screen? In a reply, Rockstar clears that the game will render lower resolution textures on iPhones as in contrast to the PSP version.

One of the shocking things associated to all this is that Apple doesn’t allow adult-theme to enter in the app store so how would it give way to the Game Theft Auto Series that subjects adult-themes? Many of such apps have been rejected on such basis previously so would Game Theft be another app in the rejected store?

Company further elaborates on the app that the on-screen characters of the game will be somewhat different to control on iPhone as compared to other handheld devices. Game will be rendering an on-screen analog stick to be thumb controlled by users.

Grand Theft Auto is a popular game on other platforms already but looking at its features that are against APPLE store’s policies, it might not be able to get an entry pass in the app store. And if somehow Apple allows Rockstar then the apps rejected on similar basis might stand up against the company and claim their right. So may be gamers should stick playing grand Theft on their PlayStations only.

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