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Posted by ksteineman on Jan 10, 2013 in Android News, Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Tablet Adoption over December Holidays 2012

Some interesting stats were released this morning by the folks over at Localytics. In summation, the Galaxy S II and Galaxy S III were the top two android devices. Over Christmas however, the Kindle Fire HD 7″ exploded in market share with 322% (compared to 8.7% and 8.5% for the previous Galaxy S’s). Of iDevices, The iPad 2 proved to be the most popular among consumers with 49% adoption. As for iPhones, the iPhone 4S still has 2x (40%) share over iPhone 5(18%) while the iPhone 4 is not far behind with 36%, and 6% of people still using the iPhone 3GS. All in all, some interesting stats. It’s interesting to know where the market is at when it comes down to specifics of device...

Posted by ksteineman on Jan 10, 2013 in Apple, Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Newest Apple Update aims to stop scammers but hinders legit developers

“Beginning January 9, app screenshots will be locked in iTunes Connect once your app has been approved. New screenshots may be uploaded when you submit a binary for an update to an existing app or a new app.” Apple’s newest update (as of Today) in a nutshell: means that the screenshot pictures you upload with your app, are going to be the one’s thay stay there. Yes, that means no updating screenshots for different seasons, newer updates, etc.. Evidently this is in an attempt to stop developers whose aim is to scam people into downloading their app under the premise of the users believing it is is another app. This is most notorious for happening with Minecraft asa frequent target of clone apps, with developers lifting screenshots from the game to promote an unrelated game. One example, cited by Panic Blog, showed a game called Mooncraft with a Minecraft app image that billed itself as “a moon-themed Minecraft-type game for iOS.” But as a Panic video shows (see below), the game was...

Posted by ksteineman on Jan 3, 2013 in Android News, Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Power Week Final Figures from Flurry 2012

Power Week. Perhaps the most important week of the year for app developers. Starting with Christmas Day, the largest single device activation day of the year, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is marked by significantly elevated device activations and app downloads. The stats to follow reveal that the last week of 2012 was the largest week for both new device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history. As always, Flurry leverages its data-set from over 260,000 apps running on the significant majority of iOS and Android devices. With its application penetration, Flurry can detect over 90% of all new devices activated each day. Additionally, with its analytics service in more than 25% of all applications downloaded on a given day from the App Store and Google Play, Flurry can reliably estimate total iOS and Android downloads. Flurry has estimated that over 50 million iOS and Android devices were activated, and 1.76 billion applications were downloaded. The column on the right compares the number of...

Posted by ksteineman on Dec 19, 2012 in Apple, Apps, iOS Updates, Marketing, Mobile | 0 comments

Mobile Minute – Dec 18th [VIDEO] Wrap-up

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Posted by ksteineman on Dec 19, 2012 in Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 2 comments

iOS 6 Adoption grows 29% after Google Maps release.

Seriously. Apple Maps was that bad. MoPub Ad exchange that supports over 12,000 apps saw a 29% increase in unique iOS 6 users just five days after Google Maps for iOS hit the App Store. Despite that fact that only 0.2% (According to Chitika) of people decided to jump on board immediately within 48hrs (over the weekend) Which by the way.. had over 10 million installs in the first 48hrs. MoPub’s CEO went on to say, “we observed since the launch of Google Maps for iOS 6 a 30 percent increase in unique iOS 6 users, and we think it’s related to Google Maps. It verifies the hypothesis that people were actually holding back to upgrade until Google Maps was available.” Needless to say, with Apple’s embarrassment aside, this opens up the doors for more people to jump on board the iPhone 5 band wagon knowing they have a dependable maps app...

Posted by ksteineman on Dec 19, 2012 in Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

iOS 6.0.2 update for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini

Just after yesterday’s update regarding iOS 6.1 beta 4 – Today Apple has released iOS 6.0.2 to the masses.The update is only for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini and appears to be minor, as the folks at Apple said ” the update simply addresses bugs including a Wi-Fi bug that has plagued many users.” You can install the update from iTunes, or your...

Posted by ksteineman on Dec 18, 2012 in Android News, Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments