Users will pass over apps with bad reviews
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Fifty percent of app users are likely to be dissuaded from downloading an app based on customer reviews that mention bugs and glitches. This, according to a recent survey conducted by QualiTest Group, the world’s second largest pure play QA and independent software testing company. For developers, getting the app to market is often the top consideration, but releasing a...
ZeroTurnaround launches XRebel Hub performance monitoring tool
Friday, September 22, 2017 by Austin Harris
ZeroTurnaround has launched XRebel Hub, an Application Performance Management (APM) tool built for the development and testing phases of app development. Traditional APM tools focus on the production phase and are often geared to the operations function. The problem with relying solely on this traditional approach is that 80 percent of performance issues make it to prod...
PagerDuty expands into APAC regions along with new Australia IT report
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 by Austin Harris
PagerDuty, a provider of digital operations management, has announced the launch of its local team in Sydney, Australia. The global expansion will help the company further grow its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and address the increasing need for digital operations management software. The company also announced the appointment of David Wall, former head of APAC s...
Acquired.io wants to help small app publishers
Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
The founders of mobile marketing company AppScotch, acquired by AppAnnie, have launched their newest venture, Acquired.io. The company has created a centralized platform to manage user acquisition across dozens of channels like Snapchat, AdColony, Chartboost, and others. Acquired.io has raised $2 million in funding from investors, many in the mobile gaming space. N...
The best month to acquire users is in September finds new report
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by Austin Harris
Liftoff, a mobile app marketing and retargeting company, has released a new report providing surprising insight into behaviors and trends in the rapidly growing world of mobile shopping. The data reveals the best month to acquire users is in September, ahead of the holiday shopping frenzy, and also examines geographical differences in mobile user engagement between Nort...
PacketZoom speeds up Photofy app by nearly 2x
Friday, June 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Performance is a crucial contributor to a dependable mobile app user experience. While stunning visuals attract customers by making a great first impression, a long-lasting relationship depends on the quality of each encounter, which is heavily influenced by how an app performs. According to Compuware research, most consumers expect mobile apps to launch within two seco...
AtScale unveils their new 5.5 platform update
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
The adoption of the data lake over the past few years has proven that enterprises want a way to store vast amounts of raw data in its native format until needed for consumption. New database platforms like Hadoop or Google BigQuery have provided affordable solutions to let enterprises store data. However, when this data is not put to use, Data Lakes became Data Swamps. ...
Almost all users abandon apps with bugs and glitches
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
88% of app users abandon apps due to finding bugs and glitches. This, according to a recent survey conducted by QualiTest Group, the world's second largest pure play QA and independent software testing company. The survey also revealed that: - Nearly 8 in every 10 users notice glitches and bugs in the apps that they use.- Over 50% of users indicated that they would aban...
Stopping the crashes inside your app
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Hannah Levenson
If you are a mobile app developer (and we'll take a wild guess and say you probably are, or are at least linked to the industry in some way), then your apps have most likely been downloaded, used a bit – crashed – and then users deleted it.We can confidently say this is the norm for many apps because:Various market studies (like this one from Crittercism) ha...
New Apple App Store Review Guidelines
Friday, September 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apple has announced that the Apple App Store Review Guidelines have been updated to include information on offering in-app digital subscriptions, SiriKit, and iMessage. iOS Developers planning on releasing apps for the upcoming releases of iOS 10, macOS Sierra, watchOS, and tvOS, should be sure to read these updated guidelines.Apple has also announced a couple of c...
Using the Right Agile Tool for the Job
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Mark Noneman
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!" Huh? I don’t know; it’s something my father always said. I think he meant that if you don’t have the right tool for the job, you’ll use the tool you have. And if it’s the wrong tool, the job will suffer. Agile frameworks are tools of a sort. You might say that Scrum is like a wrench - requirin...
Drew Burns of Adobe Weighs in on Mobile Marketing for 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
As the app market continues to explode (see our recently published article “App Usage Grows by 58% in 2015 and Shows No Sigh of Slowing Down”) app publishers will have to continue to improve and update their app marketing tactics as competition continues to increase. We visited with Drew Burns who is the senior product marketing manager for Adobe Target and wo...
Leveraging Apple’s Watchkit to Let Apple Watch Take Your iOS App to the Next Level
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
So its official, the Apple Watch will be available on April 24. Now the pressure is on mobile app publishers to decide if they are going to provide Apple Watch functionality and, if so, how deep to go.Your users may actually make that decision for you. Most iOS phone owners will want the apps on their phones to have some kind of functionality with the Apple Watch once t...
