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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. [...]
Why Choose a Native Android or iOS App Builder over a Web App Builder?
Lately, there has been a trend for some companies and individuals to develop web apps over native apps. For those who don’t know, a native app is an app that is native to a particular platform. That means that the app only works on one platform or the other. In our case, we provide the [...]
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 [...]
Initial Developer Interest Almost Dead Even for Android Jelly Bean and iOS 6
According to numbers produced by data-driven advertising network Chitika, app developers and builders are equally interested in Android Jelly Bean and iOS 6. The study was done in July, shortly after the release of Apple’s iOS 6 Beta 3 release. Android Jelly Bean had been released one week earlier, on July 9. Chitika’s data was [...]
3 Essentials for Building a Great Mobile App
A recent post at an iOS development news site called 148Apps.biz gave what it called “Three Simple Steps” on how to build a better mobile app. The site, which is by and for DIY iOS app developers, goes on to describe how to build an app. The problem is that the user must know how [...]
The App Developer Middle Class and How You Can Get There
As Android and iOS app builders and developers, we hear this a lot: “I want to make the next Angry Birds.” A lot of people in the app development industry have been led to believe that developing apps is an “all or nothing” proposition: that if an app isn’t huge, it isn’t worthwhile. Really, though, [...]
