Tobias Dengel is CEO of WillowTree Apps Inc., a mobile applications developer. He is also a BIA/Kelsey blog contributor, and will be posting regularly on mobile-related topics. The views he expresses are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of…
While Apple iOS and Google Android have attracted hundreds of thousands of apps, BlackBerry remains stuck at some single-digit percentage of that number. Is it that BlackBerry users don't have the same appetite for apps that other smartphone users have?…
Sometimes you see something so compelling you just know it's the start of something big. The 7-iCollection iPhone app recently launched by Green Tomato for 7-Eleven Hong Kong fits that bill. Simply put, it uses the phones "augmented reality" feature…
Yesterday Apple updated various pieces of its developer rules/requirements. The change that got the most press was that Apple was "opening up its popular App Store to products made using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) Flash program," according to The Wall…
Last week, Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering, made a blog post announcing 100 million users a month for Google Maps for Mobile. In a fragmented, emergent mobile world, mapping is one area where there is a dominant leader. (Note…
Last week, Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering, made a blog post announcing 100 million users a month for Google Maps for Mobile. In a fragmented, emergent mobile world, mapping is one area where there is a dominant leader.…
Google posted a somewhat innocuous-sounding legal update to its Android Developer Terms and Conditions a few weeks ago: In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes: • In Section 13.1, “authorized carriers” have been added as an…
Google posted a somewhat innocuous-sounding legal update to its Android Developer Terms and Conditions a few weeks ago: In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes: • In Section 13.1, “authorized carriers” have been added as an…
Rewind to the year 2000. Virtually every TV ad featured both a URL and an AOL keyword. "Visit us online at weather.com or AOL KW: Weather." The pundits said the AOL walled garden would come down. They were right. Will…
Rewind to the year 2000. Virtually every TV ad featured both a URL and an AOL keyword. "Visit us online at weather.com or AOL KW: Weather." The pundits said the AOL walled garden would come down. They were right. Will…
Microsoft’s struggles with mobile are no secret. Worldwide smartphone marketshare for its Windows Mobile OS is estimated to be about 2 percent (Admob, May 2010), and MSFT just discontinued the Kin phone, weeks after launch. It would be easy to…
Microsoft’s struggles with mobile are no secret. Worldwide smartphone marketshare for its Windows Mobile OS is estimated to be about 2 percent (Admob, May 2010), and MSFT just discontinued the Kin phone, weeks after launch. It would be easy to…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
