Android app makers face difficulties that iPhone developers do not. It is harder to make money from Android apps than iOS apps, for instance. One of the (several) reasons is the ease with which pirates can copy and sell Android apps outside the purview of Google Play. The United States Department of Justice took notice this week and seized t [...]
Posts tagged games
DOJ Seizes Indie Android Stores for A...
Android app makers face difficulties that iPhone developers do not. It is harder to make money from Android apps than iOS apps, for instance. One of the (several) reasons is the ease with which pirates can copy and sell Android apps outside the purview of Google Play. The United States Department of Justice took notice this week and seized t [...]
RIP Adobe Flash on Android
On August 15, Adobe will no longer offer Flash for Android through the Google Play store. Any Android device that does not already have Flash will be unable to download it any longer. It is the end of a very long, difficult road for Adobe as it cedes video on mobile browsers to HTML5.
Come tomorrow, if you do not already have Flash on your A [...]
Tablet Travelers Still Pulling Conten...
Surveys of US travelers confirm tablets are still all about about consumption of content. That has big implications for tablet makers and apps developers.
Don’t Leave Home Without Your Tablet
One recent survey of American travelers showed that for most, tablets usually come along for the trip. Nearly 70% of the 1,200 respondents to the surve [...]
Bringing Enterprise Data to Your Mobi...
Enterprises are racing to connect legacy data to increasingly critical mobile applications. The companies that get there first will gain significant competitive advantages, but the traditional means of tying together existing data and mobile apps are difficult and expensive. A new class of startups delivering what is known as back-end as a s [...]
The Frankenphone: What a BlackBerry W...
Rumors of Research In Motion possibly turning away from its BlackBerry 10 operating system and adopting Windows Phone 8 have us thinking. If RIM and Microsoft combined the might of their mobile operating systems, what would the Frankenstein-like device look like and how would it function?
There are three things to consider when thinking abou [...]
The Android Nexus 7 Tablet (and Jelly...
For years, consumers have been looking for an alternative to the iPad. The obvious place has been Android, but in reality nothing really stood up against Apple’s mighty slate. Either the price was too high, or it came with a contract from a wireless carrier, or it just wasn’t good enough. Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG and a host of other [...]
4 iPhone & iPad Apps for Summer O...
Only 35 days remain until the opening ceremony of the London 2012
How Facebook’s Mobile Strategy ...
Large companies often have trouble breaking into new revenue-generating vertical markets. As Facebook barrels into its much-anticipated initial public offering today, the question for investors and analysts will be: How does Facebook start making money from its huge mobile presence? While it may seem like Facebook [...]
Facebook Permeates Everything; App Ce...
Facebook will soon have an application store…well, not exactly. Facebook will soon have an application repository. A display showcase. Those are probably more apt descriptions of what the social giant will unveil with App Center. Essentially, Facebook will turn itself into an application hub – a traffic director for social apps a [...]
Infographic How People Use iPhones an...
Did you know that the majority of Android users in China are on a 2G network? That about 44% of Android users in China use HTC phones? That almost 14% of iPhone users in China have spent $10-$20 on paid apps, with 9% spending more than $50?
China has the largest mobile-phone installed base (by volume) in the world, and just as it is in the U [...]