Posted by ksteineman on Jan 26, 2013 in Mobile |
Starting on Saturday January 26, 2013, a policy update to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will make it illegal for owners of new cellphones to unlock their devices unless authorized by their carriers. If you are in the process of deciding whether or not you should get your phoned unlocked, then I’d suggest DO IT – today. For those of you who do not have any idea what “unlocking” means it basically allows your phone to be ‘unlocked’ from being with one carrier, and instead use any 3G or LTE signal that is available in your area. Meaning: you could use AT&T in one neighborhood, Verizon in another,...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 26, 2013 in Random, Funny, or Cool |
If you’re a user on facebook chances are you received an email that looks similar to the one below. If that is the case, do not panic. Read what it actually says. You may not have to actually do anything, nor were you likely involved. The email relates to individuals who may have been featured in a ‘Sponsored Story’ Ad showing the users names, profile pictures, photographs, likeliness, and more – prior to December 3rd. If you’re not aware of what a Sponsored Story is, the short version is: An ad that uses your interests to advertise directly to your network that facebook holds. Further details regarding: ...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 25, 2013 in Mobile |
Appcelerators survey of 770 enterprise leaders and their mobile development priorities and perceptions of the emerging trends in mobility are – in. The report allows enterprises to compare their mobile initiatives with those of their peers to better understand the major mobile trends emerging in the enterprise space. ..while a FULL Report can be found here. The skinny is.. 2013 will be the year when the number of new mobile apps will surpass the number of new desktop apps. Enterprises view mobile as transformative and believe it will have substantive impact on top line revenue growth, customer and employee relationships, the enterprise’s ability to compete, and bottom line asset efficiency. However,...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 25, 2013 in Apps, Mobile, Startups |
If you’re developing an app your biggest concern, (and probably what keeps you up at night) is: whether or not your app will be a hit. Or how it will be received by users. Good? Bad? Not at all? Without launching your app and releasing it onto the Apple App Store, or Google Play marketplace (what have you) there is no way to really “tell” how users are going to take it, and whether or not they will actually like it. Heck, maybe they even have good feedback you could implement while you’re still in development before the app hits the store. Yeah, it’s a shame..there hasn’t been a...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 24, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
To break it down, Apple projected it would do about $52 Billion this quater, Analysts had predicted $55 Bilion in revenue and $13.41 earnings per share with 50 million iPhones, 23 million iPads, 12 million iPods, and 5 million Macs. Regarding The actual Financial and Device Numbers, here’s how it went: Money: Revenue: $54.5 Billion Profit: $13.1 Billion Earnings per share: $13.81 Profit Margin: 38.6% Devices: iPhone: 47.8 million iPad: 22.9 million Macs: 4.1 million iPods: 21.7 million When you compare these numbers to last quarters (Q4 of 2012): 27 million iPhones and 14 million iPads With revenue of $36 billion and profit at $8.6 billion. ...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 23, 2013 in Mobile |
Dr Windsor Holden at Juniper Research said, “If retailers truly want to maximize the mobile monetization opportunity, then optimization is critical. If you are using mobile advertising for consumer acquisition, you need to push users to a site with which they can comfortably interact; retailers that fail to respond to consumer demand will fall behind.” With that being said, according to Juniper Research retailers are to spend $28 Billion on mobile marketing campaigns in 2013. The analyst notes that in addition to smartphones; tablets have also created new ways for brands to engage with consumers, while other e-commerce desktop/laptops become more mobile-based. While there is much buzz around Augmented reality,...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 23, 2013 in Mobile |
Localytics is the leading provider of app marketing and analytics solutions. The company announced today the results of 2012 were stellar (having trippled their revenue). Not only that, but the 4th quarter of 2012 marked the 12th consecutive quarter of record setting revenue. Additionally, the company has also expanded its offering to provide analytics insight and drive marketing campaigns for more than 500 million unique smartphones and tablet devices across iOS, Android, Windows 8, Windows Phone, HTML5, and Blackberry. Having also secured an additional $5.5 Million in funding Localytics has relocated to is new expanded HQ and also made additional hires. Localytics, CEO Raj Aggarwal said, “Apps...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 23, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile |
After reading earlier today about how Apple’s iPhone accounted for 6.2 million of Verizon’s 9.8 million (63%) activation’s it was discovered that only 651,000 were the iPhone 5. This may be due to the fact that the device was only sold for 1 week in the quarter. Overall, new data released by Kantar Worldpanel revealed that iOS stands at 51.2% vs 44.2% Android. Kantar also noted, “…36% of iOS sales were derived from other smartphone users over the last year. While this figure remains stable over time, the proportion of Android users moving towards the Apple brand increases. 19% of iOS sales over the last year were derived...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 23, 2013 in Apple, Apps, Marketing, Mobile |
But how many of these Apps will go into the ‘App Graveyard’.. where many, many, many Apps wonder, waiting for the day their creators will revive them to become the App they were created to be. Mobile analytics firm and ad network Adeven released a new year-end report today which reveals several key findings. One of these finding is of course, that the iOS App Store is looking to grow an additional 435,000 apps this year (on top of the 790K+ apps available for download). This will be a substantial increase from 2012 which had 380,000. According to Surikate however, 81% of UK visitors stop browsing after checking...
Posted by ksteineman on Jan 23, 2013 in Mobile, Startups |
Storm8 is a bootstrapped mobile game company founded by former facebook engineers. They just announced today that they have crossed the 10 million DAU (daily active users) mark, which puts that at nearly 1/3rd of Zynga’s own 33 Million DAU (from back in July). CEO Perry Tam went on to say, “We’re not a one-hit wonder. We never were and we are not a one-trick pony”. Who also mentioned that their network contains near 200 Million devices. While not known for having the most distinguisable titles in the space, Storm8 was early to market to both the Android and Amazon platform, and they are a...
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