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...
As of this morning Fiksu announced that they have received a Mobile Marketing Award for their advertising platform from Mobile Marketing Magazine’s “Effective Marketing Awards”. The Effective Mobile Marketing Awards recognize companies worldwide that are revolutionizing the mobile marketing industry. Fiksu was one of more than 200 entries across 19 categories and was selected over six other companies nominated in the same category. Congrats to...
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As spotted by a 9to5 reader earlier today, Apple has released its iOS 6.1 beta 4 to developers. In other news, they’ve also seeded a new preview of Xcode 4.6 and a new beta of Apple TV for developers. Lastly.. As stated earlier by Tim Cook, Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China” “China is a very important market for us and customers there cannot wait to get their hands on Apple products. Sales officially started on December 14th, and Apple has also previously announced that it intend on making...
It goes without saying that dealing with fragmentation is something you’re going to have to face if you want to build Apps for the Google Play store. The charts to follow will help you get an idea of the current marketshare so you know where you should be spending most of your time when creating the size of your designs. Also, if you want to actually get featured on Google Play conquering fragmentation issues is just but one concern. You’d be silly not to make sure that you support the latest devices and operating systems, particularly from the Nexus (Google) brand. Secondly, stay informed on what devices...
According to Flurry, (which has a network of over 300 million consumers) have found that Solitaire games have the best 90-day retention rates of any freemium genre. Strategy games however, encourage the most frequent use. As seen in the graph below Quadrant I represents the above mentioned ‘sweet spot’, quadrant II displays intensive use over a short customer lifecycle, while quadrant IV is full of ‘evergreen’ titles that show repeat play, but may “lack the depth required to generate sizeable in-app purchases....
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Before you can even think of optimizing your app performance you’re going to need something to help you manage al the data and metrics. Something like.. Apsalar’s FREE mobile analytics product: AppScience. Moving forward (assuming you at the least have that in place now) you can take these insights in and implement them as well. 1) Choose a mobile specific provider This will be able to best help track and answer these critical, mobile-specific business questions. You’re not dealing with Google Analytics here. Mobile app tools like AppScience should not be considered ‘in the same boat’. 2) Define Which Events to Track When setting up your mobile analytics, define...
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Well at least that’s how many apps have been downloaded from the App Stores since 2008 (when the industry got started). 89% of them come from their native apps stores too. Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, said: “The current status quo is based on storefronts that the operating system vendors provide as part of the OS experience, and there is no evidence that this would change in the future.” “A year ago it still looked like that, for example, mobile operators could find a viable business case in the curation of Android apps, but that opportunity evaporated once Google got its storefront act together. Today, it makes sense...