FarmVille to rake in iPhone audience's cash this June

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 7th 2010 2:00PM

During today's all-things-Apple WWDC 2010 conference, Zynga founder Mark Pincus took the stage to announce a startling (albeit not entirely unexpected) technological development for the virtual agriculture industry: FarmVille is heading to iPhone at the end of June. The app will allow you to sync up with your Facebook account and tend to your pre-existing farm on the go.

Pincus teased "withering crop Push notifications," though we're not sure if that was a joke or not. We pray to any and all powers that be that it was.

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Tags: Apple, casual, farmville, iPod, wwdc-2010, zynga

Reader Comments (20)

Joystiq I love you, but does every new iphone app need it's own post?

I don't know if they all need their own post, but this one does... it lets me put all of my disdain in one place, so I don't need to blemish any of the goodwill I bestow on more worthy apps.

every new MAJOR app? sure, if the other platforms all get separate posts for their major games. farmville and guitar hero are pretty major. you don't see posts about fart apps or anything like that.

That's what I thought.

You called it man.

HUMANITY IS DOOMED

And this completes the cycle. You can focus more time on your farm than the world around you on your bus ride to school or work, While at work or school, on your ride back to home, and at home.

Screw this world you have cows, geese, and corn to worry about.

Can you imagine if virtual farming was controlling farm robots somewhere? FarmVille could feed the world's hungry. Instead it just mocks them.

If you need an app to use what is on the web everywhere else - you blew it.

it's probably optimized for the iphone in some way (like the interface and all that). you wouldn't get that with the web app. probably.

@Sally

AOL did well with its walled garden too. We all know how that went.

Apple is in a similar "try to control everything" mode - in which success is historically short lived.

There is better out there and sooner or later either Apple will wake up or the people will. We'll see.