February, 2013 | Mobile Minute

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 21, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Only 2% of Top iPhone Publishers in U.S. are Newcomers, 3% on Google Play

A new report from Distimo released today has revealed that only 2% of the top 250 publishers in the iphone App Store are “newcomers”, vs 3% on the Google Play App Store. Evidently, also only 0.25% of the total revenu from the top 250 applications goes to the new iPhone app publishers, while 1.2% reaches new Android app publishers on Google Play. If you’re a newcomer, chances are – initially, you have a better shot at making money on Google Play. Distimo examined the trends in the iOS App Stores and Google Play from October 2012-January 2013. Unfortunately, having a time frame that occurred over the holidays slightly skews the data, because of Power Week which is extremely temporary. Below are the top 10 new publishers by App Store: iPad, iPhone, and Google Play. It can also be observed (in the image below) that the revenue share of Googe Play compared to Apple is close to 5% higher (12% vs 17%). It’s also important to mention Downloads, and actual...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 21, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

TestFlight comes to Android

As one of the first in the App Testing space, TestFlight has announced it is opening up its Private Beta on Android after having received 300,000 app uploads on iOS. 100,000 being in the last 90 days. Of these some recognizable brands include: Adobe, Disney, Halfbrick, and Tumblr. Co-Founder Ben Satterfield has declared that they plan to roll out the Android support slowly through their private beta. With an official android app coming in the very near future, at present their private beta is what’s available. For those interested, you can enter androids private beta...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 21, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

Tablet Ownership In Europe to Rise 4x in next 5 years

A new report from analyst Forrester predicts that tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple by 2017. Forrester went on to say, “”With double-digit growth in tablet uptake across Western Europe in 2012 and further double-digit growth expected, tablets can no longer be considered a fad,”” They also expect the consumer-owned install base of tablets to reach more than 147 million in Western Europe in 2017, jumping 33 Million from 2012. Other noteworthy findings, a quarter of online adults in the 18- to 24-year-old category owned a tablet in 2012. When it comes to tablet usage, Forrester found that tablets are unsurprisingly most used in the home — specifically the living room, bedroom and kitchen, and maybe the bathroom. According to the report, the main usage for tablets is: accessing the internet, emailing, social networking ,playing games and viewing pictures (as if that isn’t everything). Forrester also identified a general loyalty among smartphone owners to their phone’s brand when choosing a tablet — particularly iPhone owners but not limited...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 20, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

Google Glass – Closer Than you Think

With everyone under the sun talking about “how cool the Google Glass will be to wear” I thought it was worth mentioning that the device is still not due till next year, and with that a $1,500 entry price. Google however, has graced us with a new video that shows off their UI. More refined, undoubtedly – users are shown what it would be like to take part in various activities, taking images, video, and using Google Now-style notifications and cards. The phrase “OK Glass” appears to act as a keyword for Glass to listen to the user and follow commands, similar to how Kinect users the term “Xbox”, while the name “Google” is being used for web searches. The expanded pre-orders takes the form of a competition where prospective users have to explain how they would use the Google Glass through social media. Using Google+ or Twitter and the hashtag #ifihadglass – entrants can use up to 50 words, five images, and a 15-second video clip to show...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 20, 2013 in Apple | 0 comments

Apple accounts for 20% of All US Tech Sales by Revenue

According to a new report by NPD, and given the expected performance of consumer interest in their smartphones (The iPhone – 3GS,4,4S, and 5) and tablets (the iPad, and iPad Mini) perform so well, that they apparently account 19.9% of all US consumer tech sales based on revenue. These results, needless to say, far outpace any other company even Apple’s arch-rival Samsung which did, (for the record) saw similar gains, but remained at about 10%. It’s also worth mentioning that the rise in revenue of these two giants came at the expense of several others, including: HP,Dell and Sony, which saw a combined drop in revenue of $9.5 Billion. Of the five main categories of US consumer electronics, only tablets and smartphones showed any growth compared to last year. Both notebooks and desktop computers saw significant decreases from last year. Most notably, desktop computer sales saw a drop of 11% compared to a 9% gain in 2011. Notebooks, also dropped 9% from a 2% drop the year...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 19, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

China Passes U.S. As World’s Top Smart Device Market

Well, that certainly didn’t take long. I thought I just wrote an Article a couple month ago talking about this type of thing. Probably did. Not sure where it is. Let’s continue. Just days into the Chinese New Year’s (Year of the Snake) China has officially passed the U.S. to become the world’s top country for active Android and iOS Smartphones & Tablets. This historic milestone has taken place within only 12months of Flurry reporting China as the the world’s fastest growing smart device market. In Flurry’s report they have used their entire data set of 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated applications sessions per day across 275,000 applications around the world. They estimate measuring activity acros 90% of the world’s smart devices. As seen the in the chart above, the tipping point didn’t actually occur until the end of January but nonetheless China’s growth curve is consistent whereas the same cannot be said about the U.S. Flurry estimates that by the end of this month (February) 2013 – China...

Posted by ksteineman on Feb 19, 2013 in Mobile | 1 comment