Facebook Jumps into Mobile Gaming World
The juggernaut of social networking is positioned to make a tremendous splash in the mobile gaming world. Facebook recently announced that they are starting a new pilot program to help small and medium-sized mobile gaming developers expand their reach through the network’s global audience. Increasing competition among mobile gaming companies has caused user acquisition costs […]
How to Turn Your App Into A Profitable Business
To maintain a sustainable business, app developers have to make money with their apps. Marketing and monetization strategies differ, depending on your user.
Study Shows that a World Without Apps Could Cause Society to Breakdown
In celebration of the iTunes App Store’s 5th birthday, e-commerce giant E-bay asked 200 iPhone owners to drastically change their lifestyle. The challenge for the 200 participants was to survive 4 whole days without using any mobile apps. The results of living an app free life were interesting to say the least. The biggest take-away […]
Apple’s iTunes App Store Flying High on 5th Birthday
As an iPhone app developer I consider this to be a truly momentous day. Steve Jobs may have passed but his crowning achievements live on, transforming billions of lives and the world as we know it. The founding of the iTunes App Store greatly contributed to Apple’s impressive rise from obscurity into a global tech […]
iOS 7 Early Adopters Updating to New Software in Droves
iOS 7 was only released to the iPhone app developer community a few weeks back but already Apple’s newest software platform is taking the mobile market by storm. According to analytics firm OnSwipe, Apple is seeing impressive user adoption numbers. 0.28 percent of all visits to their mobile-optimized sites came from iPads running iOS 7 […]
Google Glass Gets Major Update, New Intuitive Features Added
Google Glass just received a major software update unlocking new features for the wearable device. 8,000 lucky Glass owners have been providing a constant stream of feedback and recommending improvements to the platform. Google’s Glass development team has been listening closely to user feedback during the initial Explorer Edition phase and has been incrementally rolling […]
Apple Signals iWatch Project in the Development
Apple has taken preliminary steps toward developing and releasing a new mobile device to the market. The company is shifting gears as wearable mobile devices like Google Glass steal the lime-light away from flagship products like the iPad and iPhone. Having taken notice of Google’s mobile moves, Apple may be poised to push back in […]
iTunes App Store Competition More Fierce Than Ever
Just about any iPhone app developer you speak with will complain that getting their app noticed and driving downloads is as hard as developing an app in the first-place. There are immense flaws in the iTunes App Store model and they have been obvious since the app marketplace’s inception. Most of the most beautiful and […]
Tablets to Dominate, Rendering PC’s a Thing of the Past
It is of little surprise that sales of tablet computers continue their meteoric rise. However, not everyone is in a celebratory mood as tablets are simultaneously taking a massive bite out of the personal computer market. This year alone sales of tablets will skyrocket by nearly 70% while laptop and desktop computers continue their downward […]
Instagram Adds Social Video Capture Freatures to App
Facebook announced today that their $1 billion baby, Instagram has integrated nifty video features into the app. Instagram’s addition of social video features places the app and Facebook head to head in competition for eyeballs with Twitter’s Vine mobile app. Vine allows users to upload and share 6 second video clips, whereas Instagram will enable […]