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History of Online Gaming on the iPhone
The growth of online gaming has always been intricately linked with leaps in technology.
The first online casinos which allowed players to wager real money online for the first time ever weren't launched until the early 90's when Microgaming (a small gaming software developer located in the Isle of Man) developed software that could provide a platform for playing casino games online.
From the 1990s to 2009, more than 600 online casinos were launched for both US and non-US players offering an average of more than 200 varieties of casino games such as blackjack, craps, baccarat and video poker. Although the UIGEA 2006 severely restricted the US market and made depositing/withdrawing funds at many casino almost impossible, the US gambling market is still growing rapidly due to loopholes in the US legislation which allows offshore based casinos to provide services to US gamblers.
From around 2007 20010, another development in technology enabled Flash-based casinos to provide instant casino games to players. An instant casino means that you no longer have to download the casino games to your desktop in a large file in order to play them. Both Party Casino and Bodog for example now provide a choice of non-download and downloadable casino clients for players.
Over the next five years however, those in the business of gaming are investing heavily in mobile gaming and gambling products.
The launch of the iPhone in 2007 was the first smartphone of its kind to be not just popular but spread the technologies of the smart phone to the commercial AND business end of the market. With more than 40 million iPhone units expected to be sold in 2011, the Apple iPhone has become one of the major targets and mobile products for online gaming companies such as 32Red and Betfair to exploit.
The massive market share of the iPhone has already meant that a number of casinos have already launched independent apps for their casinos games specifically for the iPhone
One of the drawbacks to iPhone casinos apps however is that because Apple has refused to allow apps that use Flash/Java technology to be listed on the App store, it has made it slightly harder to develop functional apps with a large variety of games. The majority of iPhone casino apps at the moment (including 32Red and Spin Palace) only feature around 10 real money casino games. Whether or not this will be improved in the future or whether Apple changes their stance however will wait to be seen. Full Tilt Poker for instance, after launching their mobile poker platform "Rush Mobile" soon declared that it would not be available on the iPhone because of this problem.
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