TikTok sister app remains major money spinner for ByteDance
Friday, September 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
While TikTok continues dominating the social media space as the fastest-growing app in the market's history, its sister app, Douyin, remains the major money spinner for Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
According to data presented by OnlyAccounts.io, as the highest-grossing iPhone app globally, Douyin grossed $372 million in July or nearly 30% more than TikTok.
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Mobile tower defense game stats
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Richard Harris
One of the most popular genres in mobile gaming is tower defense games. The mobile tower defense games market is especially popular on smartphones and tablets, where gamers can easily take them with them wherever they go. In addition, tower defense games are great for keeping people occupied on long road trips or flights, as they require little to no interaction from th...
How eSIM iPhone 14 could be a disaster for unprepared carriers
Monday, September 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
The news that Apple has launched an eSIM-only iPhone 14 model in the US is an eSIM turning point in the mobile carrier industry, essentially signaling the start of a new era of digital connectivity competition, says GlobalData.
According to the leading data and analytics company, the consequences are many and varied, as the eSIM-only smartphone model represents myria...
Huawei and Bitrise partner to enable App Developers
Friday, November 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Bitrise, the Mobile DevOps company that organizations use to get mobile apps to market faster, has announced its work with Huawei. The global smart device provider has tapped Bitrise as part of its mission to attract the world’s best mobile apps into its 530M+ user AppGallery, in turn enabling app creators to more easily enter the restrictive Chinese market.
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The app store is not a monopoly says Apple employees in new survey
Thursday, May 30, 2019 by Richard Harris
Blind is an anonymous social network with thousands of verified employees engaging in discussions about work-related issues and industry trends.
Their weekly surveys gather real-time insight into employee sentiment on trending issues, with results broken down by company.
The most recent survey asked Is Apple creating a monopoly by only allowing consumers to purcha...
Androids failing at double the rate of iPhones
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the two main players in the mobile space, the Android and iOS operating systems are at constant odds with one another for market share and performance. In the second quarter of 2017, Android devices struggled to keep pace with the performance of iPhones. In fact, Android devices had a failure rate worldwide of 25 percent - that is more than double the failure rate of...
How mobile app testing has changed
Friday, August 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Technologies are rapidly evolving and ways of testing them are changing too. But one thing remains true - product quality must be high. Therefore, it is important to have a clear vision on how you will guarantee that your product is working as planned. Depending on the project, you can build your own testing team, hire professional consultants or do a combination of bot...
Infltr becomes the first app to offer filters for live photos and iMessage photos
Thursday, December 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Infltr is the first ever camera app to enable iPhone and iPad users worldwide to apply millions of filters to their photos in Apple’s messages app. This is the first time a camera app has been incorporated into iMessage, bringing the full potential of the iPhone camera into the globally-popular instant messaging function. Infltr will also apply photo-style filtering to ...
Dolby's Narrate app lets you add voiceovers to videos
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
The new Narrate app by Dolby will amaze iPhone users the way the renown sound quality lab has delighted cinema fans and home audiophiles for years. Narrate allows iPhone users to become storytellers by adding their own voice to videos on mobile devices.Here's what Narrate can do:- Add personalized narration so you can tell your own story.- Remove background noise, when ...
How to attract more premium brands to inapp programmatic advertising
Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Maggie Mesa
Marketers are finding great success with in-app programmatic advertising - most notably, those pushing app installs - yet many brands are hesitant to invest in the data-driven buys. A lack of education on the incremental value (or even concerns over brand safety) is holding brands back from investing fully in one of the most engaging environments available in advertisin...
The Impact of iOS 9 on User Searches
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently discussed the impact of iOS 9 on how users will find and consume information with Richard Forsythe, the co-founder and CTO of NoteStream, a mobile learning app that encourages personal growth and exploration through the presentation of enriching content in snackable form written by expert contributors on a wide range of topics. NoteStream was launched in...
Getting Your App Ready for Apple Watch
Thursday, April 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
If you want to have your app interact with the Apple Watch, you need to get things in gear because the release of the watch is just around the corner on April 24. To help jumpstart your efforts, the Apple developer portal has a section named “Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch.” Included are the following guidelines.Optimizing Your WatchKit AppYou’ll need to ...
iPhone Users In The U.S. Account for 80 Percent of Wi Fi Data and LTE Data Consumption
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobidia Technology Inc. is a leading provider of mobile usage data. The company released a new insights report, today on mobile data usage in Q3 2014 in the U.S. The recent findings derived from the analysis indicated that iPhone users in the United States had accounted for 80 percent of Wi-Fi Data and LTE data consumption. “U.S. wireless subscribers with LTE ...
Chase Webinar to Show App Developers How to Integrate Apple Pay into iOS Apps
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
This week, the onslaught of new iPhone 6 owners will be happily grabbing their new phones. As we have written in a number of recent articles, new iPhone launches provide a unique opportunity to reacquaint current users to your app and potentially gain a new crop of app users who are looking for new apps and new ways to use their phone.And one of the most important new u...
Study by Rumble Shows App User Engagement Significantly Differs by Content
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Richard Harris
It makes sense that different apps engage users differently. A mapping app is not going to be used as often as Facebook or Words With Friends. Still, we welcome more insight into the actual differences between user engagement and the types of apps they use.
A new study by Rumble, a mobile-first platform for content publishers, attempts to better quantify this differen...
Apple Starts New iPhone Production This Quarter
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
If you've been waiting for some, any news related to the next iPhone here ya go! It looks like some reports are emerging that Apple is greasing up the assembly line for the production of their next iPhone, tentatively called the "iPhone 5S"Reports are saying the new iphone will be similar in size and shape to the current iPhone 5, only with more power and different spec...
