But who really cares about windows any way right? I mean, as a Developer why would you want to waste your time with a market that is a fraction of a fraction of the competitors (Apple App Storea and Google Play Market). Well, surprisingly enough – there are a number of reasons. And instead of trying to explain it to you myself, let me introduce this great Infographic brought to you by the folks at Pocketgamer.biz. ...
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After reading a horribly written article on Tech Crunch that just goes waaaay too much into details, I thought I’d elucidate my findings and give you the skinny of how Appboy can be useful to you as a developer. But first, who/what is AppBoy? Appboy is a customer relationship management platform for mobile apps that combines messaging, audience segmentation, analytics, and user support in a single, integrated solution. To avoid boring you with everything that Appboy allows you to do, let me provide a summation instead. Appboy allows you to seperate your sharers from your spenders and your influencers from your fans. Wouldn’t it be great if you could send the right message to the people who spend the most? Or even better, a call to action influencing your social media butterflies to share what you have to say? Well, now – thanks to Appboy you can. You can do just that; and more. To find out more (if you feel so inclined) I’d strongly urge you to...
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Onavo (a Sequoia backed company) tracks the usage of millions of apps through its mobile data compression products. Onavo compares the market penetration rank-the top grossing charts. Unlike companies like Flurry, Onavo creates consumer-facing products and doesn’t work directly with developers, the company can publish data on active usage for specific apps. After monitoring the game usage among U.S. iPhone users in November they looked at the market share, or the percentage of their U.S.-based iPhone owners that use these games on a monthly basis. I.e. (In the chart below) They found that Angry Birds Star Wars was being actively played by 3.9 percent of U.S. iPhone owners every month. The then compared that to the game’s ranking for top grossing charts. This allow them to see roughly how strong average revenue per user (or ARPU) is for each title. The most widely played games like Angry Birds Star Wars, Subway Surfers and Bike Race Free were (surprisingly) not among the top, top grossing games on a...
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As reported several times over the last few days by the Wall Street Journal: the plans for developing a new cheaper version of the device apparently have now advanced. “The cheaper phone could resemble the standard iPhone, with a different, less-expensive body, one of the people said. One possibility Apple has considered is lowering the cost of the device by using a different shell made of polycarbonate plastic. Many other parts could remain the same or be recycled from older iPhone models.” The real question is, will this cheaper version of the iPhone have the same screen dimensions as the current iPhone 5? Will it be smaller (reverting back to the screen size on the original iPhone all the way up to the iPhone 4S)? Who knows. While the Wall Street Journal states that Apple could still drop the idea, Apple has supposedly been planning a less-expensive version of the phone since at least 2009 in an effort to: “grab market share and hook people on the brand.”...
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The additional funding is said to be used for: further product development (more so in the areas of in-app monetization and analytics).Chartboost was founded in 2011 by Maria Alegre (CEO) and Sean Fannan (CTO) both former Tapulous employees. Chartboost is not just another ad network, but a technology platform providing free ad-serving technology. Developers can use Chartboost’s SDK in their own apps to promote other apps for cross-promotion purposes. Chartboost gives developers the ability to have their apps displayed in a way that is outside the norm of simply searching for it via the keywords, and having it show up in the “list”. Users discover developers apps (primarily games) through the integrated ads shown in apps from Chartboost’s...
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Evidently I wasn’t the only one to notice seeing as 9to5mac just wrote an article on on Faceboks latest update to their Messenger app. What’s New in Version 2.1 – Send a quick voice message when you have more to say – Call friends for free right from Messenger* – Other improvements and bug fixes Among other things like bug fixes and what not, the main update here is their voice message feature. Creating this type of feature while certainly appealing (to me at least) also means they’re going to be competeting with other apps ike Voxer, Zello, HeyTell and more.. It will be interesting to see how this affects the Apps install rates, I would imagine it would increase seeing as currently 50-60% of people never even use the Facebook App, yet alone Facebook...
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