According to Meg Whitman, CEO and president of Hewlett-Packard (HP), the company plans to return to the smartphone market.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: Thumbstar talks about South America, Tag Games gives advice to young developers, Apple disappoints the public with a new iPhone, and iOS 6 threatens to change the mobile industry market a lot.  

The executive director of Microsoft hinted that you should not wait for a cheap tablet based on Windows 8. 

Square Enix has released a shareware card battler Guardian Cross for iOS. Good news for the company’s fans, since most of its mobile products are paid. 

According to the 9to5mac resource, Google released the J2ObjC translator yesterday, converting code written for Java to Objective-C. 

According to Digitimes Research, the total shipments of 7 and 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets by the end of 2012 will amount to 5 million.

On September 19, the final version of iOS 6 will be available for download. There are quite a lot of key changes, not counting the design: updated search, rejection of UDID, improved Siri, the appearance of the Passbook application, new maps. But for mobile developers, the main innovation will certainly be the deep integration of iOS 6 with Facebook.

Apple has repeatedly warned developers about its plans to abandon UDID in order to protect personal data. And now the “miracle” has happened. In the sixth iOS, it will be replaced by IFA (identifierForAdvertising). 

Microsoft has rebranded its mobile app store, and at the same time announced the latest innovations in it: a heavily modified search engine, the addition of Top Free and Top Paid categories. 

Immediately sorry for the offtop, but due to the fact that now everyone is just talking about the iPhone 5 (what’s on Western news feeds, what’s on ours), I couldn’t get past this picture. She’s really into the subject:

As reported in the official blog of the company, since yesterday Microsoft has opened limited access to the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Developer Program. So far, the operating system is available only to developers of the most popular applications.

Yesterday Apple not only showed the smartphone, but also boasted about the numbers. Unfortunately, against the background of bright pictures, not everyone paid attention to them.

I want to show you an interesting screenshot (open the image, otherwise it was cropped a little):

The “Farmer” company began publishing collectible card games, previously considered the territory of Japanese companies. 

Yesterday’s Apple presentation is the alarm bell that was talked about so much by those who were sure that the company would not last long without Steve Jobs. About this, as well as why the announcement of the iPhone 5 disappointed many, read below. 

According to The Verge, delays and bugs during testing of Windows Phone 8 pushed back the release date of the operating system. Microsoft employees are now working overtime.

The number of downloads of the New Star Soccer 5 game for iOS has exceeded the milestone of 1 million. This was told the other day by one of its creators, Simon Read, in an interview with the British resource Develop.

No miracle happened. Almost all the rumors about the new iPhone have come true. The photos that previously got into the Network turned out to be, as they say, real, as, indeed, numerous “leaks”.

The executive director of Tag Games, Paul Farley, in his article on Pocket Games, told what should be paid attention to by a young studio that decided to take up the development of games for mobile platforms.