The New York Times Adds Augmented Reality to Their App
Augmented reality (AR) is regularly in the news these days, but the New York Times has decided to literally put it in their stories via mobile app. Is this the dawn of a new era for journalism? Immersive Journalism After announcing that it would start enhancing stories with AR development, New York City‘s famed publication […]
Apple Buys German Startup That Will Make Its AR Unstoppable
“The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Independent back in February. “I think AR is that big, it’s huge.” By June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company put its money where its […]
Walmart Grows E-Commerce Wing with Pending Bonobos Purchase
Walmart may be the number one retailer in the world overall, but it lags far behind Amazon in online sales — and as anyone who’s paying any attention knows, the future is in e-commerce. Amazon’s exponential rise seems unstoppable; the company captured more than half of all online sales growth in 2016. It is finding […]
FAA Forecasts 600,000 Commercial Drones Airborne Within 2016
According to a statement released by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), commercial drones are skyrocketing into the mainstream. Some 600,000 are expected to be registered within a year period. (For context, about 20,000 are registered as of this post. That’s steep growth even by iPhone app developer standards.) But don’t call in the eagles or […]
Why App Developers Need to Take Action for Tech Education
Job creation is at the top of the agenda for fixing the economy, yet half a million US-based IT and mobile app development jobs went unfilled in 2015. It’s certainly not for lack of pay (the average salary for iPhone app developers hovers around $90,000). What’s at the root of the problem? Education. In spite […]
IPhone App Developers at Poncho Launch Mobile Weather App
Techies, NYC iPhone app developers, and animated GIF aficionados have been using email alerts from the innovative weather service Poncho for several months now. As of last week that service is expanding to a full-fledged native iPhone app including coverage for 48 states and a host of fun new features, positioning the quirky startup to […]
Ninety-Nine Problems: the Psychology of Mobile App Pricing
Scroll through the Apple App Store or Google Play and you’ll quickly notice that 99% of the top apps have something very conspicuous in common; they’re all priced in 99 cent increments. You don’t have to be a mathematician or iPhone app developer to notice that something’s afoot. While freemium pricing is undeniably on the […]
Google Glass Gets Major Update, New Intuitive Features Added
Google Glass just received a major software update unlocking new features for the wearable device. 8,000 lucky Glass owners have been providing a constant stream of feedback and recommending improvements to the platform. Google’s Glass development team has been listening closely to user feedback during the initial Explorer Edition phase and has been incrementally rolling […]
iTunes App Store Competition More Fierce Than Ever
Just about any iPhone app developer you speak with will complain that getting their app noticed and driving downloads is as hard as developing an app in the first-place. There are immense flaws in the iTunes App Store model and they have been obvious since the app marketplace’s inception. Most of the most beautiful and […]