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It’s the holy grail of all iPhone, iPad, or Android apps developers. Your app is out for one month, and one of the “big boys” offers you as much as a hundred million dollars. The app is Mailbox, and they were reportedly offered $100 million by Dropbox. Dropbox did, indeed, buy Orchestra, the company that [...]
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Zynga Makes a Comeback in the Apple App Store
Zynga has been quite successful as iPhone and iPad app builders and developers, but they are better known for their Facebook apps, such as FarmVille, FarmVille2, ChefVille, and Texas HoldEm Poker. Facebook apps have accounted for 80 percent of their revenues since they were founded in July of 2007. However, Zynga’s relationship with Facebook changed [...]
Tablets Begin Inevitable March to the Top of the Mobile Device Industry
Recently, mobile app developers and builders received some very good news. For the last seven years, smartphones have gradually taken their place beside computers, and are now the second most popular medium for connecting to the Internet. However, within the last two years, tablets have mounted a serious challenge to the supremacy of computers and [...]
How Parents Can Make Their Android Devices Child-Friendly
While keeping up on mobile apps industry news, we ran across a nice little piece instructing parents how to make android devices child-friendly. This piece is not only important for parents, but it is also very relevant to android apps builders and developers. In today’s era of niches and specialisation, it is more important than [...]
Android Jelly Bean Attains 10% Market Distribution 6 Months After Launch
Whether you are an iOS app developer or an Android app developer, both platforms have their strengths and weaknesses. For Android app builders, it is always a challenge to make sure the app will run on all existing operating systems. Currently, the oldest operating system still in use is Donut, which was introduced on 15th [...]
What Do Mobile Advertising Statistics Mean to iOS and Android App Developers?
An end of the year post on Venture Beat published some stats that gave Android and iOS app developers and builders food for thought. A study done at the Pew Center in 2012 showed that 60% of those who use mobile devices use the mobile browser to find most of their news. This is up [...]
Christmas Week Breaks Records for iOS and Android Device Activations and App Downloads
In a recent post on the Flurry blog, the advertising and analytics firm provided some of the most staggering numbers ever seen for device activations and app downloads. Flurry used data culled from more than 260,000 different apps running on both Android and iOS devices. App creators and developers know that Christmas is the most [...]
Technology Wars: Winners and Losers for 2012
We came upon an article on the Venture Beat blog, and thought we’d share their thoughts with you. They rated various devices and operating systems. We agree with most of what they said, but we disagree on a few small points, and one very important one. Let’s take a look at what they said about [...]
Free Apps Dominate 2012 Market, but Does that Mean the Paid App is Dead?
At first glance, it looks like terrible news for app developers; market research from late August projected that 89% of all apps sold in 2012 would be free apps. For those of you who want to take apps to market, this doesn’t look like the best news. Compounding the “bad news,” 90% of the apps [...]
Android’s Stunning Growth Causes Big Banks to Change Apps Strategy
When Apple opened their App Store in July of 2008 to market third-party apps on the iOS platform for their iPhone and iPod touch, they immediately became the dominant apps platform. At the time, Nokia’s Symbian, Research in Motion’s Blackberry, Palm OS, and even a few phones using Windows dominated the smartphone world. Apple would [...]
