Could the Apple iPhone Dominate India?
Apple is aggressively positioning their top selling products into a market of 1.2 billion people. But will the kitchen sink strategy work in this burgeoning nation of over 1 billion people? The tech giant apparently has been offering the Indian public special payment plans and cashback incentives in their ruthless pursuit to boost iPhone sales […]
iOS Apps Earning Nearly 5 Times More Than Android
Mobile app developers continue to choose the iOS platform over Android. Google may be wondering why so many developers flock to create software for the iTunes App Store over Google Play. The main reason is blatantly obvious. Developers follow the money. Apple’s dominance over the mobile app ecosystem may be waning slightly, yet applications launched […]
Why Apple is Killing Android in the Business World
The Android platform may be dominating the overall smartphone market but is still lagging leap years behind iOS on the business front. The vast majority of businesses choose to outfit their employees with an iPhone these days and that trend doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. During the I/O developer conference Google announced plans […]
Unity Game Engine Spreads the Love, Drops Price to Free
Unity, the popular game development platform has come out with some shockingly sweet news. The CEO announced that the company has decided to drop their software licensing fees from $800 to the low low price of, Free. The enticing promotion pertains to developers specifically creating mobile applications for iOS and Android. So far the Android […]
How Fragmentation Issues are Holding Android Back
At last count there were over 3,000 possible combinations between different devices and software running on the Android platform. Fragmentation issues don’t just create stressful headaches for Android developers but heart attacks as well. There are various reasons as to why Android fragmentation issues effect Android even though the platform offers developers so many alluring […]
What Facebook’s Acquisition of Parse Means for Mobile Developers
Facebook is truly following through with their mobile-first strategy, dishing out $1 billion to snap up social photo heavy weight Instagram as well as dozens of less publicized mobile start-ups over the past few years. Now Parse, the “mobile-backend-as-a-service startup” (mBaas) which develops tools and services for mobile developers has joined the Facebook family. According […]
Missed Out on Getting Google Glass? Message From Google, Too Bad
The wildly successful launch of Google Glass to an exclusive selection of 8,000 participants is driving up demand for the futuristic mobile device. Unfortunately according to Google’s Chairman Eric Smidt us mere mortals will have to wait until early 2014 to get our hands on a pair of Google Glass. The Google exec said that […]
iPad Easily Beating Android in the Tablet Wars
Chikita, a mobile advertising network just released a research report on tablet devices that confirms what most experts already expected. The iPad is wiping the floor with Android devices in the race to control the tablet market. Since December 2012 the share of time spent browsing the web via an iPad device has risen to […]
What Developers Need to Know About Google Glass Apps
It is official Google Glass is here! The new mobile device that everyone is buzzing about has just launched. 8,000 lucky individuals should be expecting special packages to be arriving at their doors any day now. So what should app developers expect? According to an article in Forbes, the initial terms and conditions prevent developers […]
Facebook Chat Heads Hit IOS Later Today
Facebook CTO Cory Ondrejka announced at the D: Dive into Mobile conference that chat heads would be arriving on the Facebook iOS app later today. Chat heads is a Facebook Home feature where instead of receiving a simple text notification about a new Facebook message you instead see a bubble with the head of the person […]