Posted by ksteineman on Feb 2, 2013 in Mobile |
Today Flurry started rolling out their user acquisition and crash analytics services. Crash analytics lets developers get automatic alerts on new errors and common crashes. Allowing them to diagnose where these errors are originating from with full stack traces including symbolization. The user acquisition analytics helps app marketers determine their CPA (cost per acquisition) on different cost-per-click and cost-per-install advertising, and e-mail marketing campaigns. They can evaluate the users they get through these different channels based on how long they end up staying with an app, how often they engage with it or how much they spend on it. Both features are free and are part of the same analytics...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 2, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
Taking a record 34% market share, Strategy Analytics reported an estimated 17.7 million units shipped during the quarter while Samsung had 32.3% market share, and 16.8 million units shipped. 3rd place went to LG, who was notably far behind both Apple and Samsung with only 9% market share, and 4.7 million units shipped. Despite Apple 1-uping Samsung in Q4 Samsung did in actuality come out on top in the US for the full year of 2012, taking 31.8% market share vs Apple’s...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 2, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
When one thinks “mobile games” they usually immediately go in the direction of: Angry Birds, Temple Run, Clash of Clans, – what have you. Games that are generally, not the most “mentally stimulating” in an educational sense. Well today, I am happy to see that that Lumosity has hit 35 Million users and, as of January, has been adding 100K new users ever-day. The company sit at the #1 spot in the education category of Apple’s App Sore for both Free and Top Grossing. They also have a noteworthy 17 million MAU (monthly active users) in the US. Having discovered Lumosity WAY back in the day, in 2007...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
After announcing earlier last week that Temple Run 2 had over 20 million downloads in its opening weekend Imangi Studios (the creators of Temple Run, and Temple Run 2) announced yesterday that the game has now become the fastest growing mobile game ever with 50 million downloads in under 2 weeks. This beats the previous record holder “Angry Birds Space” from Rovio which was 50 Million downloads in 35 days and held sine April...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
The patent is described as a depth perception system and laser projection. PatentlyApple highlighted the story earlier yesterday with several possiblities of using cameras and a laser source to determine the distance of an object and implement various applications based on detection of depth. PatentlyApple also described how Apple could use the invention for laser projected keyboard applications (as pictured below): “In this example, the iMac is able to detect a user approaching it and activate a particular program, application, awake from sleep or power save mode, and the like… In patent FIG. 12, we see a user positioned in front of this future iMac such that the...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apps, Mobile, Startups |
It seems like just a couple days ago I was at the Pulse talk on how they built their front end and back end news delivery service, where I met this lovely lady who told me about machine-learning customer service. The idea at the time was pretty interesting as I know some companys have yet to even implement human driven customer service chat features on websites. Sure the feature is quite common on the Web. But how about for Apps? Well, Hipmob is making an effort to become “the premier support service for mobile” Co-founder Ayo omojola noted that, there are plenty of tools like Olark and Zendesk...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Mobile |
Certainly seems like quite a few doesn’t it? Especially when you take into consideration last year (2012) was the year that Smartphones activations hit 1 billion (as well as Facebooks user base). The firm predicts that of those 1.4 Billion smartphones there will be 268 Million tablets, 45 Million Windows Phones, 20 Million Blackberry 10’s, and that Android and iOS will continue to lead the way. ABI Analyst Aapo Markkanen wrote, “The greatest fear for both Microsoft and BlackBerry is that the initial sales of their smartphones will disappoint and thereby kill off the developer interest, which then would effectively close the window of opportunity on further...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
While it may seem a little far fetched, a new patent applicaiton published yesterday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office The patent outlines a system whereby a user would post requests for small amounts of cash using their iPhone, where other nearby users could respond to to provide some quick funds in the event that no other option is available. Historically Apple has stuck with either refinements or extensions of their existing technology. This method however, would be an entirely new path for Apple, and it will be interesting to see how it might come to fruition. The patent was originally filed in July, 2011 and...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
A new report released by IDCshows that Apple continues to lead in marketshare for WorldwideTablet Shipments with a 43.6% share, and 48.1% YOY growth from 2011. While Samsung isn’t necessarily “close behind” they did show an extrondinary 263% YOY growth from Q4 of 2011. While Amazon sits at 3rd right behind Samsung it’s interesting to not however that of Android Tablets the Kindle Fire, and Kindle Fire HD...
Posted by ksteineman on Feb 1, 2013 in Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile |
As reported earlier by TC in only 36hrs iOS 6.1 has already accumulated a resounding 22% adoption rate. Onswipe, has seen adoption of iOS 6.1 grow rapidly with 11.35% within the first 24 hours, up to 16.92% this morning, and up to an impressive 21.81% as of 3 PM ET today. Onswipe pulls data from over 13 million monthly active users on iOS, this means its numbers represent a pretty significant statistical pool to draw from to gather these results. CEO of Onswipe Jason Baptiste explained, “expanded reach is giving the company an even better idea of what’s happening with iOS adoption curves, and that this time around, people...
