A $195 million gap between AppStore and Android Market
There are differences between Apple AppStore and Google Android Market.
The application game “Trism”, launched on the appStore earned its developer $250,000 in its first two months. Following this success, Trism’s developers adapted the popular application to Android. On the Android market, the game was sold for a total of a 500 copies in the nearly three months since [...]
No future for app stores?
In the debate about which technologic system will be interesting to develop for, Google takes a little bit schizoid position. In an interview, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president, says that the web had already won, because smart phones users would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. “What we clearly see happening [...]
Apple improves its appStore search engine
Soon, Apple will help developers to make their apps more easily reachable on the Apple’s App Store.
The solution: keywords tagging into applications. With a maximum of 255 characters, the keywords will change the way consumers search an app, because they will not only be found by its name, or the developer name, but also [...]
Does App Stores affect Smartphone’s sales?
Like the eternal question to know which one of the chicken or the egg comes first, there is a question where the answer is missing: Is the iPhone a success because of the 65 000 apps available? Or the 1 500 000 000 downloads are due to the Apple’s Smartphone?
Some years ago, the classic iPod [...]
Happy Birthday to the App Store
Since July 2008, Apple makes a big place to a new section on the iTunes Store. The App Store, which celebrated his first anniversary on last 11th July, offers 65 000 apps in over 77 countries, created by 100 000 developers, and this huge number generates another one even bigger: 1.5 billion of downloads! It is a [...]
