iPhone App Developers at MicSwap Supercharge your iPhone Mic
The iPhone has become slimmer, stronger, and more feature-rich with every update to the original design — but when it comes to sound input and output, the hardware doesn’t always live up to its true potential. Luckily, a group of musicians-turned-iPhone-app-developers is working to solve this small but unnecessary problem. The result: MicSwap, a new […]
Unmute Is an iPhone App Inspired by Old-School Phone Calls
If you’re old enough to remember getting landline calls from your high school date and having younger siblings listen in on the other line, you’ll have no trouble understanding what Unmute is all about. It’s just like that, but with anyone in the world listening in — instead of just your little sister. For teens […]
Facebook Mobile App Developers Testing Topical News Feeds
The mobile app development team at Facebook is in the news again this week as users notice an intriguing new feature rolling out: multiple, topical news feeds. Similar to the special interest feeds launched on the web app last fall and the standalone Facebook Paper app, the new feature will allow users to toggle between […]
Vine Founder Launches Peach, a Social Network iPhone App
Dom Hofmann, founder of the wildly successful video-sharing iPhone app Vine, has been back in the news the past couple weeks drumming up buzz for a new social networking startup. Peach is an iPhone app developed to capitalize on the success of uber-simple sharing apps like Ello by applying an equally simple mobile messaging interface. […]
Pinterest Models Diversity for Mobile App Developers
Unicorn startup Pinterest recently ramped up the diversity discussion in Silicon Valley with their first ever hire for the Head of Diversity position. Former Catalyst employee Candice Morgan will be filling the role. The announcement comes following years of initiatives within the startup community aimed at opening up employment to candidates of all backgrounds — […]
IOS App Developers pull over $1 Billion in Christmas Sales
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 […]
Twitter Files to Patent Drone Selfies for Mobile App Users
Twitter has been turning heads in the mobile app development community the past couple weeks with an unusual drone-related patent application. In a wall of text describing some sort of tweeting drone, Twitter’s patent attempts to nail down the rights to “messaging-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle[s].” Here’s an excerpt from the patent text as posted to […]
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 […]
Walmart Launches Mobile App Payment Option
Mobile payments are officially mainstream. Wal-Mart has launched “Walmart Pay,” a Wal-Mart-specific mobile app for payments via debit, credit, and gift cards. (You know, like PayPal.) Spokespeople at the company say the mobile app development team is hard at work integrating even more cutting-edge mobile payment options, to include features like mobile wallet integration in […]