Tennis Club Story is a good showcase too: an addictive business-simulation (no, really) that has you running a tennis club.
"All the people you tend to deal with are in London," said Simon Andrews, founder of advertising agency Addictive, whose business plans and buys advertising campaigns on behalf of clients.
Now, though, it seems like the Blackberry is losing its addictive powers, and businesses and busy bosses are shopping around for other smartphones – lured, like the rest of us, by the magical properties of Apple's iPhone or other such devices.
Deeply moving and without a trace of sentimentality, Father of My Children is one of the most convincing pictures I've seen about the complex, exhilarating, addictive and heartbreaking business of moviemaking.
Angry Birds, conceived by Rovio in Finland, is the best known: basic in concept, a shallow learning curve, and as addictive to high-flying business executives as it is to toddlers.
Writer, performer and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax has told HARDtalk about the "addictive" side of show business.
In the big picture, the team is eager to transform from just-another-social-polling tool (albeit an addictive one) to a sustainable business with consumer and business-facing services that provide more monetization opportunities.
But another problem is that they operate in the space in between traditional airlines (which attract business travellers with addictive frequent-flyer programmes) and the private-jet industry.
In my own experience, x.ai's "Amy," the AI for scheduling business meetings, is totally addictive.
