Making sense of the mobile application development future
In the past month, a land slide of research on mobile internet usage and application downloads has hit the market. On smartphones, iSuppli has pointed out that Android will soon overtake Apple in terms of the number of handset it is available on, which is further backed by NPD which found that one in three [...]
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 [...]
Apple: A strategy dinosaur?
A rather brilliant article in iMedia Connection (http://bit.ly/anVI4W) highlights some of the flaws in Apple’s strategy, and refers to what many partners (developer especially), perceive as pure arrogance.
Among the noteworthy points made are:
“Apple’s desire to control its marketplace has made it a poor choice for developers, even when it offers a large market. Having a [...]