iEmulators 2.0 launched today!
It has been an exciting (and tiring) few months working with my team on this new, redesigned site. For over a year, iEmulators has grown at a steady pace to become one of the most recognizable forms of downloading non-jailbroken applications.
We wanted version 2.0 to receive the attention it deserved and to give back to the users that have been supporting us from the very beginning. It was, honestly, about damn time.
iEmulators 2.0 is now a fully-realized hub for the Start3rs. This new version still gives you access to the emulators and apps you have grown used to seeing (plus a lot more coming in the near future), but it also provides even more.
We have added a dedicated "Home" section where you will find news and information by yours truly, the latest videos by OPERATIONiDROID, and even a featured skins selection from GBA4iOSkins. We intend to update this section as much as possible and use it to push us further than never before.
The "Apps" section is what you may have already guessed, the sections for all the emulators and apps available for download. Although we are starting out by giving the same emulators you have seen before, some of them have been updated. We have taken the time to research, get in contact with developers and obtain working versions of these apps - it's a hard thing to do, but we think the time and effort put into this is worth it.
In the near future, we will be hosting a beta to bring even more emulators into the site and you definitely shouldn't miss that. Follow @iEmulators for more info.
The "Help" section is your best bet to answer any questions you may have. We provide the all-too-familiar date trick instructions, a few answered frequently asked questions, and even a comments section where you can leave any inquiry or doubt you may have.
Aside from these main sections, we have added other external links that take you to different pages within iEmulators.com
After much consideration, we now have a functioning "donations" page where you can help support the on-going development of the site. It is entirely optional, of course. We just thought it was time we made it available.
An about page that tells you a little bit about how iEmulators came to be and what our mission is.
A team page where you can find the faces behind the Start3rs team that brings you iEmulators 2.0, as well as their other social media sites and contact information.
A disclaimer page that serves to detail everything you need to know about the responsibilities of using this site and other legal information. We highly recommend you familiarize yourself with this when you have the time.
A dedicated contact page where you can email iEmulators Support directly or one of the individual Start3rs.
One more thing I need to address is the ads on the page. I know, nobody likes ads, but the truth remains and that is that they help pay the bills.
We contemplated doing this for many months while designing the site and we have arrived at the conclusion that all the man hours alone spent coding site (not mentioning the hours contacting developers, obtaining new apps, testing said apps and even future hours going into the beta) was enough for us to consider them.
We ran the site for over a year free of charge (and will continue to be free), taking whatever we could out of our own pockets. We switched hosts three times during that time and now we have two new ones - it is only natural to add them to cover the costs.
We're being careful not to add them in a way that will distract or annoy you. We are also in no way asking you to click them in order to support us, as that is against our policy agreements - but we will have them there and let them do their jobs.
We will never include ads inside applications, these ads are only for the site.
Come check out the newly, redesigned site over at http://iemulators.com!