Apple gaming studio predictions for 2022
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Justin Welter
If Apple were a person, it would seem they are (still) living on top of the world. Still flush with cash, flexing those privacy muscles with the final rollout of iOS 14.5 and then benching more with iOS 15, and up 29% year over year. But like a senior year quarterback with three championships already to their name, expectations are high and when they’re not m...
Mobile gaming market turned upside down by Netflix
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 by Mike Gadd
Stranger Things have happened but at the beginning of November, the global streaming giant Netflix announced that it is moving into the mobile gaming market.
Though it's a low-key debut by Netflix standards, with just five mobile games initially available to download through its app on Android smartphones (with two focused on the entertainment juggernaut's 80...
Lawsuit from US developers sways Apple
Friday, August 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity for developers while maintaining the safe and trusted marketplace users love. Apple appreciates the developer feedback and ideas that...
The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
Five tips for taking mobile payments from inside your app
Friday, August 24, 2018 by Carol Oles
Back in 2008 when the Apple App Store began, there were a mere 800 apps available for download. Fast forward ten years and there are over two million apps on the Apple App Store and approximately 8 million in the Google Play store. Thousands of mobile apps are being published to Google Play and Apple App Store daily, but are the ones geared toward e-commerce or requirin...
The iOS app store sales data app AppSalesTrends gets an update
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Finnish indie developer, Esa Helttula announces AppSalesTrends 2.30, the update to his iOS and Mac App Store sales tracking application for macOS. The app allows iOS and macOS developers to download and analyze tracking information about their apps. Users can track an unlimited number of apps and bundles, view daily sales reports, sales graphs, and much more. Version 2....
Mobile financing app hits $1B milestone
Thursday, February 1, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Handle Financial has announced that more than $1 billion dollars in bills have been paid through Prism, its popular mobile app dedicated to helping consumers take control of their finances. The milestone comes as Prism’s biller network continues to expand. As a financial management tool that allows users to automate tracking bills and account balances, enable mobile rem...
ChickfilA used visual A-B testing to improve mobile experience
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mobile visual A/B testing is a process by which enterprises of all sizes are seeing satisfying results, all while companies are simultaneously increasing the value of their mobile presence. We sat down and talked with both Aaron Glazer, the CEO and Co-Founder of Taplytics, and Jay Ramirez, the Mobile Product Manager at Chick-fil-A Corporate, to learn about how the Chick...
New payleven Mobile Payment Integration for iOS and Android
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Mobile payment company payleven, has released payleven for Developers, a suite of developer products for mobile payment integration natively for iOS and Android.The payleven for Developers platform includes App Pay, a secure way for developers to integrate inapp payments for purchases via a smartphone or tablet, without the need for a card reader. The product also allo...
How to Design a Seamless UX for Mobile Payments
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Joe Kleinwaechter
Nearly 1.4 million mobile applications fill the virtual shelves of the App Store. Of those, more than 177,000 apps facilitate mobile payments. Moreover, Apple Pay’s impact on the mobile market has been nothing less than noteworthy, with businesses and banks clamoring to accept it as consumers merge their wallets and cell phones.And in terms of mobile usage, consumers de...
Fortumo Launches New Quarterly Emerging Markets Mobile Payments Index
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mobile payments company Fortumo has created a new quarterly Emerging Markets Payment Index intended to be used by web, game and app developers for benchmarking their revenue in markets with high smartphone growth and low credit card penetration. The Emerging Markets Payment Index focuses on top smartphone markets that have been predicted for growth by value in 2015...
Growth in Ad Tech Firms As Partnerships Spur With Mobile
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
An increasing number of traditional advertising partners are creeping their way into the mobile ecosystem and this can be very good news for developers.Google’s AdMob is a leading ad network which delivers ad services for iOS and Android. Google is said to have earned $3 billion in display ad revenue alone in 2013. They are currently working on updating their partnershi...
Fortumo to Give Developers $5,000 to Integrate Mobile Payments SDK
Friday, September 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Fortumo has announced a new developer program for Windows Phone and Windows 8 developers to help them acquire additional users for their apps. Developers who add the Fortumo in-app purchasing SDK to their Windows Phone or Windows 8 app will receive $5,000 in free advertising credits from Fortumo to drive downloads for their apps in emerging markets. “The bigg...
PayPal’s Braintree Launches New Mobile App Payments SDK
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Braintree has released its new mobile payments platform, v.zero SDK, which offers customizable drop-in UI features across platforms and, for the first time, enables Pay with PayPal. The company says that developers can integrate the SDK, set up payments and be up and running in 15 minutes or less. The Braintree v.zero SDK features:- Pay with PayPal: With the B...
Fortumo Launches Direct Carrier Billing in Pakistan
Thursday, July 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile payments company Fortumo and mobile operator Telenor Pakistan are launching direct carrier billing in Pakistan that will provide the ability for app developers and publishers to receive payments from more than 35 million subscribers of Telenor Pakistan. These Telenor customers now able to make online payments by charging purchases to their phone bill. Fortumo wil...
Windows Phone More Popular Than iPhone in 24 countries, What
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you are interested in exposing your app to emerging markets in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa & Asia and your app is not available on Windows Phone, you may be missing the boat. In 2013 Windows Phone was more popular than the iPhone in 24 countries across the world, including India and Nigeria, where a huge number of people are purchasing sma...
New Report Shows iOS Still Leads Android for App Monetization Android Leads with User Total Engagement
Thursday, May 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Swrve has released a new “App Monetization and Engagement” report which details relative rates of retention, engagement and monetization for app users on Android and iOS, using a like-for-like comparison for the month of April.The report reveals that on average iOS users spend 45% more on in-app purchases than those on Android. Users of iOS apps are also 32% m...
Conduit Mobile Rebrands App Generating Platform as Como
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Conduit Mobile is rebranding its mobile app generation platform to the new name Como, which offers a non coding environment to create apps for all major mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, and HTML5).Along with a new name, logo, website, blog, etc, the company is also introducing the Como Console, an all-in-one platform for creating, editing,...
Google Imposes New Restrictions On App Ad Networks And Anything Else Sneaky
Monday, March 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
As ad networks go interstitial's and banners have always been the staple for displaying creative content. Then about two years ago other methods started to surface such as push alerts, dialogue alerts, floating ads, and other such methods which all strive to catch the consumers attention and hopefully end in an engagement. Last year push alerts were completely erad...
Fortumo Developer Program Provides Up to $25K to Enhance Windows Phone and Windows 8 App Development
Sunday, March 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Fortumo has announced new a developer program for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps. Developers who integrate Fortumo in-app purchasing to their app will receive an advance of up to $25,000 from Fortumo to cover their integration costs. The program is also open to successful iOS & Android developers who bring their apps to the Windows platform. Fo...
Using in App Advertising Effectively To Monetize an App
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Robert Weber
Thousands of apps launch each day, so the mobile app business must be booming, right? Not exactly. Sure, thousands of apps are launched daily, but how many actually make money? Last I checked, products must generate revenue to qualify as a business. And generating money is where apps fail, miserably. A recent Gartner report spells out the harsh forecast facing developer...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
The Clock is Ticking for App Developers to Meet Google Play Policies
Friday, August 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Google’s new developer guidelines established on August 23 have started a ticking time bomb that may blow up apps that don’t meet the new guidelines.
In its own words Google is making “Improvements include new guidance on ads behavior and clarifications to existing policies related to hate speech, gambling, in-app payments, ratings, and impersonation.”
The new policy ...
Chrome Dev Channel Release Brings News On Changes in Google Services
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
Mike Tsao, Chrome Apps Tech Lead, has released the latest Chrome Dev channel release on Google's Cromium Blog. I n the blog he discusses changes in access to Google services such as Google Analytics, Google APIs and Google Wallet, and better OS integration using services such as Bluetooth and native app communication. Among items discussed were Identity API, In App Paym...
Fortumo Launches Payments on Windows Phone
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today mobile payments provider Fortumo launched in-app payments for Windows Phone, making it the only third-party payment provider on Microsoft platforms with support for cross-device integration of payments on Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone.“Our goal is to help developers who are making the move to Windows Phone e...
What is lifetime value for an app
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
It’s not surprising that the traditional marketer‘s favourite tool has eventually found its way into an app developer’s life – sooner than expected and with good reason. Let’s face it – your app is your business and you want to measure, monitor and control the value your users bring to your business. Customer Lifetime value -CLV or LTV, as different people choose to cal...
