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Posted by on Jul 25, 2013 in Apple, Mobile | 0 comments

Apple Rolls out Developer Portal Status Page

Apple Rolls out Developer Portal Status Page

Following Apple’s attempted iOS and Mac Developer Center breach earlier last week, Apple has posted an iCloud-like Status Page so developers can track Apple’s work for re-implementing Developer Portal Features. They’ve also outlined their approach as to what they plan to do to restore those same features: “We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We’ve been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online, we want to share the latest with you. We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Apple Developer Forums, Bug Reporter, pre-release developer libraries, and videos first. Next, we will restore software downloads, so that the latest betas of iOS 7, Xcode 5, and OS X Mavericks will once again be available to program members. We’ll then bring the remaining systems online. To keep you up to date on our progress, we’ve created...

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Posted by on Jul 25, 2013 in Android News, Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Google Play Hits 1 Million Apps

Google Play Hits 1 Million Apps

Up from just 500,000 apps last year, and 900,000 just last month, the Google Play store has entered 7 digits. This was officially announced yesterday by Sundar Pichai who leads the Android and Chrome teams here in San Francisco. Naturally, Pichai said something to the effect of the app growth being an evident indicator of Android’s strength on smartphones, but even more so on tablets.  While it may be the case that Apple has also surpassed the 1 Million App’s milestone, Google is first to make the announcement. This means a few things for android, the first obviously being that it has more than 1 million apps now, but is also now the most popular smartphone worldwide (if you measure by that metric). Pichai also announced that Google Play has seen more than 50 billion downloads, which is up from 20 billion just last year. This, and that RPU (Revenue per user) is now 2 and 1/2x more than what it was last...

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Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

The State of Mobile Advertising Q2 2013 With Opera Mediaworks

The State of Mobile Advertising Q2 2013 With Opera Mediaworks

As reported yesterday by 9to5, Opera Mediaworks has come out with it’s Q2 report for 2013. Opera Mediaworks is considered the ‘world’s leading mobile advertising platform’ and takes in over 35 Billion mobile ad impressions each month. To make a long story short.. For OS (operating system) the line up looks like this: iOS leads at 43.75% of impressions Android at 31.24% ‘Other’ at 16.21% Symbian at 5.16% RIM at 3.37% and windows..poor windows, at 0.26%. When it comes to ad impressions by manufacturer: Apple again leads the way with 43.75% Compared to Samsungs 17.4%. When it comes to Tablets, Apple sit at 91.2% vs Samsung’s 6.1%. It’s worth noting that Samsung does however dominate on Android at 58.45% share.  Samsung is indeed almost 50% above  all other manufacturers (HTC in 2nd is only at 10.88%), more so, Samsung’s share represents more than all  other manufacturers combined. The following quote was also mentioned in the report: “Apple is still the top manufacturer of mobile devices, with 43.8% of all...

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Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Line Surpassses 200 Million Global Downloads

Line Surpassses 200 Million Global Downloads

Although they have no report on MAU (monthly active users) which leads to the assumption that perhaps they’re not keeping up with the other social messaging apps in the space which include: WhatsApp which last month announced it had 250 million active users currently leads the way. China’s WeChat however, has amassed a use base of 300 million, and reports it has 190 million MAU’s. Needless to say, seeing as LINE just reported back in January that it had reached 100 million users coming to 200 Million in 6 months is not bad progress. Again, while the # of MAU’s is uncertain LINE previously had mentioned in an interview with Tech Crunch that “the proportion of active to registered monthly Line users can be as high as 80%” On a final note, LINE has recently been seen running TV Ads to acquire users and build awareness (an example can be seen below).   In Q1 LINE reported earnings of $58.9 million, half from in-game purchases and just under 1/3rd...

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Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Mobile Device and App Trends in China

Mobile Device and App Trends in China

As re-mentioned yesterday by Flurry, China has surpassed the US to become the country with the largest smartphone device user base. This was of course originally reported on back in February when Flurry drew the original conclusion. In fact, earlier this year in June Flurry had deduced that China had over 261 million smartphones and tablets. This number represents an astounding 24% of the entire worlds connected user base that flurry measures. As can be observed in the chart below the Worldwide Growth rate compared to China’s. While manufacturing behemoths like Apple, Samsung,and Xiaomi lead the way with: 35,15, and 16 percent, China’s own Huawei did come out on top in the “Other” category which consisted of over 18 different manufacturers. Indeed it will be interesting to see how the local company fares against the foreign giants. Looking at what Chinese users like to do on their devices – games is where it’s at (for both Android and iOS). Time spent by App Category for each OS breaks down...

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Posted by on Jul 23, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Content and App Revenues to grow by 84% over next 4 years

Content and App Revenues to grow by 84% over next 4 years

If that doesn’t sound impressive, mobile gaming revenues are also expected to grow 266% by 2017. This is according to a new study by Linklaters, Generation Next Report which shows that emerging markets will contribute to the majority of growth in these two areas as these services become more accessible to consumers. The largest contributor towards this growth is expected to be from messaging and mobile money apps, forecast to grow from $12.9 billion to £18.2 billion (41 per cent). Mobile gaming however will is also predicted to grow 266% to $9.8 billion. As for music, while the growth rate is certainly slower it still increased by 197% from $0.7 billion to $1.9 billion. Linklaters telecom Co-leader, Julian Cunningham-Day had this to say: “Mobile data access is set to drive huge growth in content and application services, however the next big wave of growth is dependant on unlocking profitability in areas which are not always easy to monetise.” The biggest emerging markets (mentioned above) that will drive this increase identified...

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Posted by on Jul 23, 2013 in Apps, Marketing, Mobile | 0 comments

Top 10 Developer Tips – What You NEED TO KNOW About App Store Optimization & SEO for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Top 10 Developer Tips – What You NEED TO KNOW About App Store Optimization & SEO for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Every once in a while Searchman.com comes out with these great inforgraphics.  Unfortunately the one they sent out earlier this month was buried in my inbox and I didn’t see it until just now.  With that being said, I’m happy to share it with you today.  Here is what we’ll be taking a look at. “What you need to know about App Store Optimization & SEO for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch” Additional insights can be derived from the image below. Top 10 Developer Tips: Mobile SEO in Apple’s App Store – iPhone, iPad, iOS7 [Infographic by SearchMan.com] from...

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