How East Asian Companies are Dominating the Mobile Landscape and What The Stats are on Smartphone Shipments
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62% of Time Spent on Mobile is on Social Networks
Thanks to the folks at Mashable, we have this cool infographic to share with you. As is evident, there are certain behaviors that desktop still dominates on – but mobile certainly carry’s it’s own. Particularly in the areas of: Photos, Maps, Games, Weather, and Social Networking. Desktop however, still appears to take the lions share for: Retail, Entertainment news, Business/Finance, and general news. Take a look and...
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It’s ALIVE! (BlackBerry) That is.. and other news you should know.
Hey now, just because the company went bankrupt and already fired most of their employees doesn’t mean that they’re still not doing great things! For instance, let’s take for instance a look at the app ecosystem with their latest BlackBerry Messenger app. The app has an astonishing 10 million downloads in its first 24-hours. Wow. The app (which is available on both iOS and Android) is said to have hit the top free app charts in more than 75 countries including: the US, UK, and Canada. Certainly a lot better launch than that of the new BlackBerry 10 itself ;). BlackBerry has yet to disclose which OS has what % of downloads. HOWEVER, a little digging will show that Google Play shows the apps install base being between 1 and 5 million which leads us to assume that there are in-fact more downloads on iOS. While the rapid number of downloads in a short period of time may seem like BlackBerry has it all-together, this is actually their second...
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The Fastest Growing Apps of 2013 and Tablet Growth to Equal PC’s by 2014
Before we jump into this, I want to first of all say that something really important happened recently. Actually, it’s not that important – but in-case you haven’t already heard; Instagram will be making its way to Windows sometime in the near future. In more important news, as expected Gartner confirms PC sales continuing to decline YOY, and tablets will amount to the same amount of PC sales by just 2014 (next year). Indeed, tablet shipment grew by 53.4% this year while the PC market went down another 4.5%. Needless to say, Android OS dominance will not be overtaken by Apple anytime soon. According to Gartner desktops shipped 303 million units worldwide this year vs tablets 184 million. Next year Gartner anticipates that only 282 million PC’s will be shipped (note: shipped does not mean sold, in fact the actual number of units sold could be substantially less). Tablets are expected to ship 263 million units. When it comes to SALES of PC’s vs Tablet’s next year, I am leaning...
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Clash of Clans Sells 51% for $1.5 Billion to GungoHo and Softbank
Indeed, the top grossing app of all time (on iOS) has sold 51% of their company to Gunho and Softbank. GungHo was responbile for 20% of the purchase, while software represented the rest. Clash of Clans seized the number one spot for Top Grossing Apps on the App Store, followed by noneother than Candy Crush Saga, Hay Day, Puzzle & Dragons, and Pet Rescue Saga. This makes two games in the top five for both King and Supercell. Distimo reports that the market share distribution did not change compared to August, and that Apple’s App Store still commands 65% of market compared to Google Play’s 35%. Since it was recently reported that Puzzle’s and Dragons rakes in $9 million a day, and Gree has acquired 20% of Cash of Clans which made $97 million in the past 3-months, I realize that this will have GungHo banking over $10 million a day a result of this new investment. Wow. That’s all I can...
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80% of Smartphones Unprotected from Malware and The History of Android [INFOGRAPHIC]
No doubt the fact that I’m pairing these two topics is to be even considered coincidence. Fact of the matter is, according to Juniper Research nearly 1.3 billion smartphone devices (which includes smartphones, feature phone, and tablets) will have mobile security software installed by 2018. This could be due to the fact that consumers are just now becoming more aware of cyber attacks (especially on android) and are willing to start looking into having some type of security on their device(s). Juniper found that cyber criminals are indeed moving towards mobile devices vs continuing to focus their efforts on PC’s (yay for media producers like me). Trend Micro’s suspects that by the end of the year their will be more than one million malwares that have infected the market. If you thought that was bad.. Wait till you hear that only 39% of businesses actually have mobile optimized sites. Ouch. I would almost say I feel bad for them, if it weren’t for the fact that anyone who does...
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92% of Smartphone Owners Use a Google App and App Annie Launches eBook Analytics and what is Kahuna?
Gmail, Google maps, Google Chrome, surely you have at least ONE OF THESE on your phone. I actually have all 3. It was also recently discovered by comScore that 92% of Smartphone Users have a Google Mobile product on their phones as well. Thanks to the folks at Statista we have this cool graph to share with you, take a look. In other news, App Annie decided to get into the eBook business this week. Officially launching their very own ‘eBook Analytics platform to help authors and publishers monitor the sale of their digital eBooks. It’s pretty comprehensive if I say so myself, I may just look into picking it up for my very own: App Launch Blueprint. There is one final thing I wanted to talk about, well it’s more of a company than a thing. A pretty cool company actually. They basically make it easier for marketers (like me) to engage with users through their very own ‘Engagement Engine’. It’s pretty far out, and I think...
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