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Four Great Security Apps for iPhone and iPad
If you are an iPhone, iPad, or Android app builder or developer, or you are thinking of becoming one, it may be helpful to pay close attention to these new security-based apps for iPhone and iPad. Making a popular app isn’t about reinventing the wheel; it’s about figuring out what is popular, what people need [...]
One App, One Month, One Hundred Million USD?
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Monetise Your App Without Using Paid Ads
Mobile app developers and builders face one big decision when taking an app to market: whether it should be a paid app or a free app. Traditionally, free apps have made most of their money through paid advertising. However, there are plenty of ways to make money from an app that don’t involve paid advertising. [...]
Are You in the Problem Solving Business?
Many mobile app builders and developers build entire, multi-million dollar businesses around an idea that has been around forever, but is sometimes overlooked: solving other people’s problems. While games are very successful strategy, problem solving has proven to be the most lucrative. A great example of making huge amounts of money for solving a simple [...]
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 [...]
What is the Largest Source of App Revenue?
Even if you are an Android or iOS app builder or developer, you would probably answer that the majority of app revenue comes from selling apps. You would be wrong. A study from app analytics firm Distimo showed that 76% of all revenue from the apps comes from in-app purchases. While we are always happy [...]
Apple Readies iPad 5 for Release, But When Will It Hit the Market?
Apple iPad app developers and builders have been waiting for definitive information on the release date for the iPad 5 ever since its existence was rumoured, shortly after the release of the iPad 4. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, who is an analyst for KGI Securities, the relative success of the Microsoft Surface tablet is forcing [...]
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 [...]
