Posted by ksteineman on Apr 21, 2013 in Mobile |
When traveling, your smartphone could seem like the most important thing in existence. Even more so than money, keys, or food. This dependency consumers have created has resulted in some interesting statistics put together for us by Buzz City. Mainly, when leaving the house, and on the go – people’s phone are of the highest priority. Close to 65% say they use their device to check email both before and during travel. 69% use their device to listen to music, watch videos, read emails, and engage with social media every-day during commuting. Another 39% were found to consider their mobile as more important than money, 29% value their device above their...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 20, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
Saturday afternoon, and nothing to do eh? Well, maybe you could start off your day by watching this AMAZINGly well thought out Domino sequence by the folks at Aatma Studios. What you may be surprised to realize is that all these phones are actually CG (computer generated). So, yeah – the company didn’t actually go out and BUY 10,000 iPhone 5’s, (that certainly wouldn’t be cheap). CEO Pramod Modi Shantharam said, “Except for the first iPhone that is set off, every other phone you see is computer generated,” “We modeled, animated and rendered the CG phone where the footage was first motion-tracked and the CG phone was composited over...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 19, 2013 in Mobile |
A new report from mobile marketing platform Swirl has surveyed 1,000 US female smartphone owners, to discover that while 53% may have up to 5 shopping apps on their device, they still prefer the real world in-store experience. In fact, 76% prefer shopping for clothes and shoes in traditional bricks and mortar stores. The data imposes that brands need to strengthen their in-store mobile offerings instead of solely focusing their effort on devices. With only 1% of women that prefer to buy threads via mobile apps and sites, one would think this wouldn’t even need to be mentioned. Swirl CEO Hilmi Ozguc had this to say, “Women overwhelmingly...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 19, 2013 in Mobile |
Certainly big news for developers who’ve been trying to leverage the feature in the past to no avail. Today at Facebook’s Mobile Dev Con in NYC they’ve announced their “next evolution of Facebook Platform for mobile”. Just like when Facebook transitioned from HTML5 to Native, the company is making a similar transition with the Facebook Platform for Mobile. With its already massive reach on mobile, Facebook stated: more than 81% of the top 100 grossing iOS apps and more than 70% of the top 100 grossing Android apps integrate with Facebook. But they don’t want to just stop there, the company wants to push even better apps to hundreds of...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 18, 2013 in Android News, Apple, Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile |
App Annie is out with its latest quarterly index for iOS VS Google Play revenue and downloads. With the unstoppable growth of the App Economy the U.S. still leads for iOS App Store revenue growth, while Japan and South Korea take it home for Google Play. Last quarter alone Google Play reached close to 90% of the iOS App Store downloads, although the iOS App Store maintained the lead in monetization, earning about 2.6x the app revenue of Google Play. This is however less than it was in Q4 of 2012 which was at roughly 4x overall. Between the two App Stores, several countries made their mark for...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 18, 2013 in Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Startups |
After months of working on your big project you’ve finally delivered it to your client and you ask yourself, “Gee – What’s next?”. For many developers that may be the end of things. ..BUT what if instead you were able to take this project you’ve recently completed and have it visible and open for the world to see what you’ve labored so long over? That’s where Tapfame comes in. TapFame is where mobile developers and designers get credit for the apps they’ve built. Their mission is to make it easy for you to showcase your work, learn about new mobile technologies and find other mobile developers to work with...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 18, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
According to a new stat from Arbitron Mobile US, iOS users are 54% more likely than Android users to use apps for commerce, per new data from the. In addition to iPhone users being more likely to use mobile commerce apps, they also log 20% more time with them, and conduct 19% more “virtual shopping trips”. When it comes to mobile commerce apps, eBay tops the list, and is used by 14.3% of the US smartphone panelists. In close 2nd is Amazon, used by 13%, followed in 3rd by Groupon with 11.1%. More in the chart below....
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 18, 2013 in Android News, Mobile |
At least that’s what the ‘word on the street is’. And.. maybe also according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where Android could soon be boasting more than 1 billion users in the next 6-9 months. Who at the Mobile World Live conference also said, “The two billion mark could be met within a year or two.” Schmidt also stated that there are currently over 750 million android devices in use today, and an additional 1.5 million activation’s every day. If that is the case, then it will be interesting to see how Apple’s alleged iPhone 5s (or cheaper iPhone) perform in the emerging markets while Google aims to deliver a similar low...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 17, 2013 in Apps, Mobile, Startups |
Jesus. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about this news. $2.4 Million a day. Really? Not bad. Actually, that’s awesome. Supercell (the creators of Clash of Clans) is said to be the fastest growing game company ever. This figure comes from an interview Supercell CEO Ikka Paananen had with Forbes where the company was valued at $800 million. Seeing as they just raised an additional $130 Million, grossed $100 million in revenue last year in Q4, and already made $179 million in Q1 of 2013 – it goes without saying, they’re doing something right. At this rate by the end of 2013, some predict...
Posted by ksteineman on Apr 16, 2013 in Mobile |
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