Tag: apps

Amazon in the mobile game

November 3, 2010

While this is not exactly “new” news, it is great news for the mobile marketplace. Retail gigantor Amazon is throwing its hat in the ring by announcing its Android marketplace. This will clearly be huge for the marketplace. Apple is doing a great job of creating a marketplace there is no doubt of that fact. However, a move like this could give them a run for their money. While this is bad for competitors, it is fantastic for consumers. While details on the storefront remain scant, it is likely to follow similar models of revenue share for developers. Good

Interesting developer stats

October 29, 2010

From time to time we like to see how the world is progressing. Let’s examine these two graphics: Although we featured this in the last post I thought it was so compelling that we should dedicate a single post to it. Again, thanks to VisionMobile (original article found here) we have some new insight as to just how dramatic this whole mobile transformation really is. First, take a look at the amount of developers involved with each. Android is way out in front followed by iPhone; neither of which were really around just a few years ago. Next, not

New RIM tablet

October 27, 2010

RIM gave a demo today of their newest attempt to stay relevant in the space; the PlayBook Tablet. Take a look here: This is their soon-to-be tablet that will feature a new operating system that they have not released before. Oddly enough, they actually bought a company who makes another OS all together called QNX. To us, releasing a tablet, late, in a market where you have just watched your competition speed past you like a Road Runner cartoon, then to feature an OS not your own signals major trouble. While I completely understand their need to replace the

How do I market my new moble app?

September 23, 2010

The number one question we get asked both in pre-sales as well as after we complete a project is, “how do I market this app and make some money?” Good question. Here’s a better one, why are you asking at all? Presumably you own a company, you sell products or services, and have been doing so longer than you have been reading this post. To this end, why is it that you don’t know how to market a product? There, I said it, this is a product. Yes, a product. People continually confuse a new technology with the need

Apple finally relaxes

September 9, 2010

It has been my experience that Apple almost never does anything like this without having a grander plan of some sort but for now anyway, developers win. Apple announced today that they are going to allow third party software to assist in iOS development. Given the relatively small community who was proficiently working in Objective C compared to everyone else, programmers who natively program in another language can not port their code over to iOS without negative ramifications from Apple. This is good for everyone. The biggest win here is the ability to use Flash, at least in a

Apps, apps, apps

July 6, 2010

AdMob recently released a report that everyone should take a look at. It is a break down of the mobile market world wide that paints a very interesting picture of where we stand currently. Two points of interest here. One of the more interesting tidbits is that mobile devices accounted for 48% of the traffic this year as opposed to a mere 22% 2 years ago. Second, iOS and Android users spent an average of 79 minutes a day using their apps and downloaded an average of 9 per month. If these are compelling numbers you are simply not

Rumor mill gets going again

June 30, 2010

So the 2010 version of an omnipresent rumor has officially surfaced. There are apparently two, yes two, Verizon folks out there who are “close to source” that state Verizon will start selling iPhones in January of 2011. Putting aside momentarily the fact that we have heard this rumor countless times in the past, I must say, if it is in fact a reality, this is good news all around. Let’s assume for argument’s sake that it is real. This would open up an almost unimaginable market for Apple as well as, and this is my personal favorite, provide us