Posts Tagged ‘appstore’
Chomp for Android is dead. Long live Chomp for iOS!
App discovery service Chomp is now part of Apple, and this obviously has far-reaching consequences. The first one, observed by GigaOm, is that Chomp no longer offers the Android App searches it did before its acquisition. The d...
Amazon Appstore monetization per user beats the App Store, TinyCo says
Andreessen Horowitz, the man behind mobile gaming startup TinyCo, was surprised when he saw the revenue generated by the tablet industry: monetization per user on Amazon’s Appstore is higher than it is on iTunes or Google P...
Apple patent targets non-programmers and makes iOS App development a piece of cake
App and in-App purchases are set to explode in the next few years, even though they already generate nearly $1 billion in revenue. Apple is ready to boost App development by preparing a no-brainer tool which requires an App dev...
Amazon tests in-App purchases for its Kindle Fire
Earlier this February IHS published a forecast of the in-App purchase market, which is poised to record stellar $5.6 billion revenue by 2015—up from $970 million—, if the analysis is on the right path. The numbers made publ...
Apple’s App Store shows Google how to generate App revenue
Google started to walk on the right path when it decided to copy Apple’s App Store ecosystem. It was a necessary step if the search giant wants to generate more revenue where it has no core competency compared to Amazon or Ap...
Review: Readability for iOS
Readability for iOS is finally here. In fact, it arrived after three months of the original announcement that it would hit the market, but as Richard Ziade, founding partner of Readability, has pointed out, it took a really lon...
Evi remains in the App Store, possibly getting a facelift
When Evi was announced, owners of the iPad, iPhone 4 or earlier, and even the iPod Touch, smiled, as the True Knowledge promised to bring the same functionality as Siri to their device. However, during the weekend voices starte...
[Game] Run Like Hell! Till Temple Run Lands on Android
‘Temple Run’ is definitely one of the best Endless Running Games available for iPhone; it is highly addictive and well, endless. The game uses the touchscreen to control the player’s movements during the game play. To mak...
In-app purchases will account for 64% of all market revenue, IHS Suppli says
Publishing a free application seems the best way for developers to make money in the fast growing smart phone application market. Although producing a giveaway sounds somewhat strange, the key in generating revenue is the later...
Cyanogenmod App Store
In news this week, Koushik Dutta, the developer behind ClockworkMod and team member of the CyanogenMod Rom has announced the team is currently working on CyanogenMod’s very own App Store. The conception of CyanogenMod App Sto...
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