Taylor Swift Trademarking Swifties while Getting Schwifty – The TouchArcade Show #299

With Eli on vacation this week, Jared recruits the most villainous human being on the planet, Carter Dotson, to co-host this week’s show. We talk at length about Apple’s recent “Celebration of Indies" promotion as well as their new initiative to give indies more visibility by giving them their very own separate storefront in the App Store. Then of course we dive into some of the new games from this week, which was one of the most loaded weeks in recent memory. Seriously, my wallet is crying. Finally, we dip into some of the more interesting news stories of the week, including the all-important registering of a trademark for “Swifties" by Taylor Swift. We bring the hard-hitting news stories, that’s for sure.

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