Epic Games sues Google for blocking app distribution
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
Epic Games has filed a court case against Google and Samsung, accusing them of colluding to block competition in app distribution on Samsung devices through the implementation of Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature. According to Epic, Auto Blocker is part of a series of agreements between Google and Samsung that prevents competition and strengthens Google’s monop...
GPU market value to surpass 274 billion
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
The increasing utilization of graphic applications in PCs and mobile devices is substantially raising the market value of GPUs. According to Stocklytics.com, the GPU market value will surpass 274 billion by 2029, representing a 33.2 % CAGR from 2024. Currently, the GPU market is worth over $65 billion, up from $43 billion in 2023, underscoring the immense growth potenti...
Global smartphone shipments make huge leap in 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
According to Stocklytics.com, the global smartphone shipment jumped 20 million units YoY to reach 289.4 million units in Q1 2024. The remarkable growth is due to strong performances in EMEA, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Global smartphone shipments jump by 20M units YOY in Q1 2024
"This remarkable uptick in smartphone shipments not only undersco...
Samsung led the smartphone market in 2022
Thursday, April 13, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
According to StockApps.com, Samsung shipped 261 million units worldwide in 2022. This figure was well above the 226.4 million units shipped by Apple, the second-largest smartphone manufacturer.
"The South Korean technology giant was able to maintain its market leadership despite the pandemic-induced economic downturn, which affected all smartphone manufacturers....
Unity Adds Another Big Screen Option for Game Developers with Unity 4.5 for Samsung Smart TV
Thursday, August 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Unity has announced the release of the public preview of Unity 4.5 for Samsung Smart TV. Free for all Unity developers, the Unity for Samsung Smart TV public preview is available as a separate 4.5 editor installation. It will ship officially with Unity 5.0, and developers who already own Unity Pro will get all the Unity Pro features for Samsung Smart TV with no need for...
App Developers Can Program for Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo with New Samsung Backed Tizen SDK for Wearables
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Samsung has announced that Tizen Software Development Kit (SDK) for Wearables is now available. Samsung is targeting developers to create apps for the Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo and is promoting over 100 apps that are now available for these devices.The Tizen SDK for Wearables is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Samsung Gear applications. It consists of th...
Tizen App Challenge Winners Announced
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Tizen has announced the winners of the Tizen App Challenge, a contest that awarded over $4M in prizes to app developers. 54 prizes were awarded to top ranked Tizen apps across 9 categories. In addition, the top rated HTML5 apps received $50,000 each.Roughly half of the submissions were HTML5 and the other half were native. In a survey of contestants, a third o...
Samsung Announces Smart TV App Developer Remote Test System
Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Samsung’s Remote Test System is a solution that enables app developers to control devices remotely. Using the Samsung Remote Test System, developers can test an app on a real Samsung device.Major features include installation and execution of applications on a real device including support of audio and the Debug Log viewer. System requirements include a modern...
App Development Industry 2013: Winners and Losers (And Somewhere in Between)
Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
One of the reasons we launched App Developer Magazine was to help bring some clarity to the big picture of the mobile industry as it relates to app development. And while we feel that we have provided many valuable insights in our first year of publishing, it’s been a lot to wrap our heads around and we plan on doing a better job in 2014. So looking at the big pic...
Samsung Increases In App Purchase Revenues for Android App Developers
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
For the next six months Samsung is bumping up the revenue share Android app developers receive from in-app purchases on the Samsung Apps ecosystem. The program runs now through April 30, 2014.
Developers who use Samsung’s In-App Purchase 2.0 are eligible for an 80% share - up from the standard 70%. The increase only applies to payments made in-app and not for paid ap...
Distimo Launches iOS App to Track Rankings for App Developers
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Distimo has launched a new iOS app that offers developers the ability to check the performance of their own and competing apps across any app store. It is available now as a free download in the Apple App Store.
The Distimo iOS app utilizes all of Distimo’s app analytics tools and offers comprehensive analysis and tracking of daily downloads, revenues, in-app pur...
Lotaris® in‐app Commerce Launches On Android
Monday, September 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Lotaris, has announced that its in-appCommerce service now supports
Android. Developers using Lotaris in-appCommerce
now have a one-stop solution to monetize in multiple Android app stores through
in-app purchasing.
For Android app stores like
Google Play (where policy allows), the Opera Mobile Store, SlideME and GetJar,
Lotaris in-appCommerce operates...
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