As our analysts have shown, in-app purchases are taking over in terms of generating revenue. This prompts all participants of the mobile market to reconsider the opportunities of selling content within applications. Telefónica, one of the largest wireless carriers has realized the importance of in-app payments, and thus contribute to the process by enabling a [...]
Skype has recently introduced a new app directory for third-party apps built on Skype’s API. Currently there are 23 apps available, but many more are to come. The directory provides an overview of the top downloaded free and paid apps, top rated apps and the newest apps. The available apps are listed in categories according [...]
Verizon is hosting this year’s developer conference on September 13 and 14 in Las Vegas. The theme of the show is “Meet the machine – innovation to get your app in gear”: The Verizon Developer Community invites you to get a look at the inner workings of The Machine – a massive, fluid structure designed [...]
We just gave a presentation at Appsterdam lunch lectures in Amsterdam, titled “Market Shifts In Content Distribution”. This gives an update into four major shifts we identified earlier in the current mobile content distribution landscape: Look beyond one-off fess to monetize your app App store content leaders of today are not those of tomorrow Impact of Asian [...]
The Apple App Store has been significantly growing in Asia, as we have already stated in our Distimo Publication in June. This has been underlined by the data from July where Asian dominance has taken over in the top 3 countries in terms of free downloads: South Korea is the third after the United States and [...]
Appsterdam is a very active community of developers which was kicked off over the last months by Mike Lee. It hosts a large selection of developer events and a weekly lunch lecture. This week Gert Jan Spriensma will be joining the Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures to talk about four major market shifts and what this means [...]
At Distimo we work a lot with developers who use our free analytics tool Distimo Monitor. Some are large, others are very small. One of the users that has been around for some time now is SPB Software, and we decided to ask them some questions that could give other developers insight into their company. [...]
Google has recently updated the Android Developers platform versions’ charts. These show the landscape of device distribution in terms of Android platform versions used. As we can see from the pie chart, 2.2 Froyo still has the biggest market share with 55.9%, even after dropping back with 8,7% since the beginning of June. The second [...]
Certain app stores specify in aiming their product at enterprise customers, for example AppCentral is one of them. The recently launched AppHQ client is also a product for businesses, focusing on security. It comes preinstalled on the first Cisco Android device, the Cisco Cius tablet. The AppHQ is basically an application storefront that helps enterprise users create, [...]