Posted by ksteineman on Aug 15, 2013 in Mobile |
While it’s not “breaking news” Gartner’s research has revealed that smartphone sales have indeed exceeded those of feature phones for the first time, last quarter. Overall, global smartphone sales have increased by 46.5% to 435 million in Q2 of this year. Last years #’s were 225 million total. Feature phones meanwhile, saw a decline to 210 million units. When looking at Operating System share, Android takes 79% of the market with 177.9 million units, while iOS takes second place with 31.9 million units sold and a 14.2% share. Windows and Blackberry sit at 3.3% and 2.7% respectively. As for manufacturers, Samsung increased its market share to 31.7% from 29.7%,...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 15, 2013 in Marketing, Mobile |
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Posted by ksteineman on Aug 13, 2013 in Apple, Mobile |
At least that’s what she said. And by “she” I mean, Ina Fried over at AllThingsD. According to AllThingsD, we should be seeing the device making its public appearance on September 10th. This would not be far off from last years iPhone 5 launch date (September 12th). What I’m very interested in seeing is if the stock will be able to make its climb back up to what it had previously been this time last year (around $700/per share). Apple has gone through quite a bit of internal restructuring of their top executives lately, and CEO Tim Cook has also been receiving some pressure from the board to “innovate...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 13, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
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Posted by ksteineman on Aug 12, 2013 in Mobile |
Mobile Operating Systems that is. With a market cap of about $5.6 Billion, BlackBerry temporarily halted trading in its shares today and announced the company had formed a special committee to research outside opportunities for the company – including: joint ventures, or even a sale of the company. As reported earlier today by MarkeWatch, BlackBerry revealed in a statement: “there can be no assurance that this process will result in any transaction.” Reuters has also reported hearing form their own sources that BlackBerry may in fact go private. Earlier this year BlackBerry announced the BlackBerry 10 (Z10 and Q10), which doesn’t appear to be doing so well. If BlackBerry...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 9, 2013 in Apps, Marketing, Mobile |
While marketing, PR and advertising all have their part when you’re launching your app (and even afterwards) the most consistent way for you to get a regular stream of traffic for your app is by performing ASO (App Store Optimization). This is basically the process of optimizing the keywords in your description and other areas to increase the visibility when users of iOS, Google Play, and other platforms, respectively, search for them. The common assumption is that ASO is just like SEO (Search Engine Optimization) but for the App Store. This could not be farther from the truth. In fact, founder of AppCodes Tomasz Kolinko even said: “App Store...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 8, 2013 in Mobile |
We all know Mobile Gaming is hot. But how hot you might wonder? How about in the UK where there are over 20 million monthly mobile gamers? Well thanks to the folks at Comscore, we have this insightful infographic to share with you that depicts all the things you need to know about these mobile gamers, what they’re doing (and when they’re doing it)....
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 7, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
It’s refreshing to see that app publishers and developers alike have come to the realization that they’re going to have to come up with more than a re-skinned popular app to be successful. It’s also become evident that users who download these original quality apps are returning 11x more to them than they were just a year ago. Needless to say, things have since moved away from vanity metrics like downloads and have become more centered around engagement. A recent study by Localytics looked at a number of new users as well as their retention. Mainly analyzing: “the users who first downloaded an app in Q3 of each year,...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 7, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
With close to 970 million smartphone owners one must wonder, which apps are the MOST POPULAR on a GLOBAL scale? Well my friends, thanks to the Global Web Index we’ve received a pretty cool infographic to share with you that breaks down in visual format exactly which apps are the most popular. From Google maps, all the way down to Yelp. Unsurprisingly, 3/5 the top 5 are from Google. #1 Google Maps #2 Facebook #3 YouTube #4Google+ #5Wechat Let’s take a look at the rest shall...
Posted by ksteineman on Aug 2, 2013 in Apps, Mobile |
The folks over at NativeX have shared two very insightful charts which show how engagement in mobile gaming has increased just over the past year. When looking at time spent in-games from Q3 2012 to Q1 2013, there is an evident 102% increase. The number of ‘power users’ (or players in this case) has also increased by 146% from 3.7% to 9%. You can read the full article here if you feel so...
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