Archive for June, 2010
The $700 iPhone app
No, the title is not referring to Prada’s latest iPhone app, it is in fact related to what anyone should expect in terms of overall revenue when releasing a new paid iPhone application. Tomi Ahonen has put up a brilliant analysis of the economics behind iPhone apps with the following premises:
Apple claims that cumulative app [...]
Mobile heralds a new are in social network monetization
The mobile phone has long been promoted as a key platform for payment of goods and services. However, paying via your phone bill has a number of issues:
* Charges for payments are insanely high in many countries, ranging from 30-70%. The UK is the leading market outside of Japan, where costs are down to 15-20%.
* [...]