Worth Reading

• This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like | TechCrunch
  Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship! Tags: android fragmentation cross platform tools […]
• Apple Remains Mobile Rev Leader
  In a report last September, Yankee Group dubbed Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook the “Four Horsemen” of what it called the mobile content revolution. The mobile-focused research firm has since updated its findings, estimating that more than half the collective $200 billion in revenue of the four tech giants came from mobile sources. Tags: facebook google a […]
• Social Network Apps Rival Games For Mobile Attention
  Comparing the average time that smartphone users spent across app categories between the first quarter of 2011 and 2012, Flurry found that gaming dropped by 4% -- down to 24 minutes per day -- while social networking increased by 60% -- up to 24 minutes per day.  Tags: social network mobile games […]
• U.S. Mobile Ad Spend To Double In 2012
  A new forecast from Strategy Analytics projects mobile ad spending worldwide will grow 85% in 2012 from $6.3 billion to $11.6 billion. In the U.S., the technology research firm predicts mobile advertising will grow even faster, more than doubling (up 128%) to just under $4.2 billion. Tags: mobile advertising […]
• Microsoft's Mobile Comeback Is Looking Terrible
  Microsoft's share has been in a freefall: comScore had it at 18% at the end of 2009, and 36% in late 2007, the year Apple introduced the iPhone. (See chart above.) Since then, Apple and Google have gobbled up the lion's share of the smartphone market, with more than 80% of U.S. smartphones in comScore's latest stats. Tags: microsoft windows mo […]