IOS App Developers pull over $1 Billion in Christmas Sales

Tim Cook

Apple recently announced a record-smashing jump in iPhone, iPad and Apple TV sales for the holiday season: $1.1 billion in the two weeks around Christmas alone. The astronomical jump in sales volume came as a surprise even to veteran iPhone app developers, with the year closing out at around $20 billion in App Store revenue […]

Google Experimenting With Outside-The-Box Mobile Security

Google

Google hates bad passwords. “1234567,” “PaSsWoRd,” and other mobile app security abominations have been in the crosshairs for years. From wearable rings that grant access based on proximity to USB drives that automatically confirm a user’s identity, it may seem to Toronto mobile app developers that the tech giant has considered every option when it […]

Toshl Paves the Way for Financial App Developers

Slovenia isn’t exactly known for its thriving startup scene, especially among San Francisco mobile app developers. But you wouldn’t know it from the splash the Slovenian FinTech app developers have been making in the startup scene since the release of their personal budgeting app Toshl in 2010. With more and more banks and financial institutions […]

Service, the Customer Intermediary App, Launches for iOS

User retention is notoriously difficult in the iOS app industry, where over 80 percent of users open an app once and never come back. So the claim from newly-launched customer service iOS app Service that their user retention hovers over 25 percent is understandably turning heads among New York iPhone app development companies, and drawing […]

Architecture of Radio App Visualizes the Networks Around You

Architecture of Radio app

“The infosphere, Visualized,” reads the description to the new Architecture of Radio app on the iTunes App Store, a new iOS app that functions as “a field guide to the world of digital networks.” But can a simple app really allow you to see the Wi-Fi, radio, and cell tower beacons all around you — […]

A Language for App Developers: Apple Open Sources Swift

Apple recently open-sourced Swift, the Apple-brand programming language, allowing developers to apply the language outside the context of iOS app development. Swift has seen runaway success since its debut at the WWDC 2014 developer conference, quickly becoming an essential part of the modern app development company’s toolkit; as well as a solid first language for […]

Tinybop App Developers Discover Key to Apps for Kids

Raul Gutierrez, the entrepreneur and iPhone app developer behind Brooklyn-based childrens app startup Tinybop, has a lot to say about the problems with mobile app options available to children. And while the surprise success of the startup’s purposefully “weird” apps for kids come as no surprise to parents of the Tinybop target audience, New York iPhone […]

Vine App Developers Launch Apple Watch App

Vine app developers recently launched a new frontier for their video-sharing social network: an Apple Watch app. The app has been in the works since early last summer, when it was used for a demo of watchOS 2’s ability to playback video at an Apple show event. The Apple Watch version of Vine is, to […]

Shopify Launches Sello, Allowing Users to Sell From Their Phone

E-commerce has traditionally been a tough market to break into. The platforms can be expensive, the security issues a headache, the consumer engagement campaigns complex. The mobile app developers at Shopify have already worked around many of these issues with their cutting-edge user-focussed online store building suite, and now they’re taking the idea of simple […]

Apple App Store Rolls Out a Big Search Update

Studies have shown that around half of Apple App Store downloads are discovered via keyword searches within the app store. That puts an enormous amount of responsibility on Apple’s search bar; it can literally decide the fate of an iOS app developer’s app. So, iPhone and iPad app developers will be thrilled to hear that […]