Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality: Which Trend Will Dominate?
Virtual reality has been dominating media coverage of tech, and when mobile app users imagine the coming VR revolution they usually imagine the sort of VR devices we saw at SXSW — big headsets, cords on the ground, complete visual immersion in a digital world. So Pokemon Go, the record-setting high-growth mobile gaming startup from […]
Dogtown Media Has Returned to Our Venice Beach Roots
We’re moving! Well, moving back home, to be specific. Dogtown Media has grown by leaps and bounds in the last five years, to a team of over thirty mobile app developers. Our main office has been in Santa Monica for the past few years, but our heart has always been in the neighborhood where we […]
Can Mobile App Startups Disrupt the Insurance Industry?
Insurance, along with medical care, is one of our country’s biggest industries — yet also one of the slowest to adapt to updates in mobile technology. The accelerated pace of FinTech adoption by the mainstream public, however, could signal a sea change for insurance. Clearly, consumer confidence in mobile tech has grown to the point […]
Startup Founders Looking to AgTech as next Frontier
KisanHub is a startup with a simple mission: using tech to help farmers grow more crops more efficiently, while using less land. While iPad app developers might not immediately think of agriculture and farming when they think of unicorn-level startup opportunities, venture capitalists beg to differ — KisanHub just closed a $1 million seed funding […]
Can Mobile Apps Make a Real Contribution to Social Justice?
While Facebook’s stance on censorship remains murky, the unicorn tech giant has issued multiple statements insinuating that the platform — and Facebook live in particular — can have a positive impact by bringing transparency to everyday life. Last week’s controversial police shooting video, which was quickly removed from the platform before being reinstated after public […]
Apple Says App Store Ad Changes Won’t Hurt Small Developers
iPhone app developers have been voicing concerns about Apple’s new App Store app-install advertising proposal, after an email to developers announcing the beta program went out to the development community. According to Apple, Search Ads will be similar to Google Adwords in that users will place bids on relevant keywords in order to appear at […]
Apple App Store Tops $50 Billion in Developer Revenue
Apple recently announced that developer payouts on their app platform passed the $50 billion mark, with a record-setting 2 million apps live and 130 billion downloads. The announcement comes at an interesting time in the mobile revolution as the advancing popularity of app alternatives like voice, bots, and integrated assistants begins to chip away some […]
Research Shows Huge Growth in Millennial use of Mobile Apps
Research firm comScore recently released their annual report on mobile app use. The results? Millennials still love mobile apps, to the tune of a whopping 90 hours per month spent on smartphone apps alone. Don’t worry, they love tablets too. Just not as much. Of usage growth across all platforms, mobile represented 65 percent, followed […]
Siri Is Finally Bridging the Gap Between Mobile and Desktop
When Apple bought Siri back in 2010, few San Francisco iPhone app developers believed it would become quite so central to the mobile experience. That success on mobile has made Mac devotees eager to use the personal assistant on other apple devices and platforms — yet it’s been years without an apparent move to jump […]
How to Reach Evangelist Users by Breaking All the Rules
This year’s Apple Design Awards are live, featuring as usual a diverse mix of iPhone app developers across a variety of markets. While the apps themselves couldn’t be more different, they all have one thing in common — a design tied directly to their core mission and a marketing strategy that effectively reaches their ideal […]