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 [...]
What’s the deal about app stores?
No doubt the AppStore on iTunes has awakened the non-wireless industry to the potential of mobile content. It has caused a flurry of announcement from companies entering the space, from mobile operators such as Vodafone and giant tech companies such as Microsoft (hey Amazon, where are you?).
But lately, the concept of app stores have gotten [...]