Article: IPhone (Side) Effect

Apple Gadget Allows Any User to Become a Game Developer; Cuts Irvine Co.'s Business

A small Irvine-based maker of software that is used by developers to make video games for mobile phones is wrestling with a phenomenon industry insiders call the "iPhone effect."

Javaground USA Inc. makes software that helps others take a game developed for one mobile device and adapt it for play on others, a process called "porting."

"One thing that has changed the mobile gaming market dramatically is the iPhone," said Alexandre Krai, chief executive and cofounder of Javaground.

The Apple Inc. do-all gadget, which has sold more than 17 million units, has captured a good part of the market of people who play ...

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