Fiksu, a mobile app marketing company, released data today pointing to the increasing cost of acquiring a loyal customer on mobile app stores. The data highlights two trends: Developer demand [...]
Distimo has released some insightful data on the impact of being featured on the app store. The last line is the most important Another way to attract attention is by [...]
Black markets are nothing new. They crop up for all kinds of reasons: to curb regulation, to defeat (excessive) taxes, to exchange illegal goods. As I read the news this [...]
Motorola announced about 400,000 Xooms sold in their quarterly earnings announcement – Android is struggling with tablet sales. I’m reminded of the launch of the G1 in 2008. A year [...]
Content has been a primary driver of smart phone adoption. In the first few years, apps were critical. Apple and Google focused on courting developers and released developer counts and [...]
There was some magic revealed yesterday. One of our companies, Expensify announced two big milestones yesterday. The first is the launch of one touch expense filing. Here’s a screenshot of the [...]
When I bought a MacBook Air earlier this year, I promised to download as few applications to it as possible. I had noticed over time that my MacBook Pro struggled [...]
Jonathan Carson of Nielsen revealed some great insights on mobile trends at AppNation today. Unlike the beginning of the web, on mobile existing big brands are winning. Google, YouTube, Facebook [...]
I discussed the acceleration of Android’s growth yesterday. There’s a huge opportunity for mobile developers to build distribution on Android. Running through many of the top charts in the Android [...]
Today, Google announced Android had achieved 3B app downloads in just 2 months, and in 27 months since launch. Apple announced 10B in April, 29 months after the launch of [...]
