When It Comes to Freemium, the User Isn’t Always Right
That first wave of media attention when you launch a startup is always a gratifying feeling for first-time iPhone and Android app developers. Even if it’s a struggle to keep up with on the software side, the tidal wave of data from a spike in downloads can offer enormous value. As with every part of […]
What Will User-generated Virtual Reality Look Like?
Virtual reality dominated the stage at this year’s SXSW Interactive, leading many mobile app developers to place bets on where the technology will take us over the next decade. Applications in gaming and education are obvious, but one less defined prediction may offer the biggest revenue potential to app developers: user-generated VR. To understand what […]
Facebook Mobile App Developers Re-Prioritize your Feed
Tired of dodging clickbait traps while you scroll through your Facebook feed on the subway? So are the app developers at Facebook, who’ve been experimenting for months with new ways to prioritize the stories you see when you open the ubiquitous Facebook mobile app. To date, it’s mostly been a process of tracking likes and […]
Instagram May Add Account Switching Feature to iOS App
60-second mobile ads aren’t the only change rocking the Instagram platform this month, as the company began rolling out experimental support for “account switching” — although the move may be less a calculated move to boost engagement than an effort to please the large part of their userbase that uses multiple accounts in spite of […]
Social Commerce in Mobile Apps is the Next Big Thing
For startups and mobile app developers, Christmas represents more than just a break to spend time with family; it represents big opportunities for business growth, with consumers buying more goods and services than any other time of year. Recent years have seen steady growth in e-commerce in general, but this season London mobile app developers are […]
How WeChat Leverages Chat UI to Offer Diverse Features
WeChat doesn’t look like much from a western mobile app developer’s perspective. Is it WhatsApp for Asia? Is it Google for China? Then you see the staggering statistics behind the chat app’s wild growth since its 2011 launch: above 90 percent of the population in all first-tier Chinese cities use the app regularly. Beijing alone […]
Vine App Developers Launch Apple Watch App
Vine app developers recently launched a new frontier for their video-sharing social network: an Apple Watch app. The app has been in the works since early last summer, when it was used for a demo of watchOS 2’s ability to playback video at an Apple show event. The Apple Watch version of Vine is, to […]
Shopify Launches Sello, Allowing Users to Sell From Their Phone
E-commerce has traditionally been a tough market to break into. The platforms can be expensive, the security issues a headache, the consumer engagement campaigns complex. The mobile app developers at Shopify have already worked around many of these issues with their cutting-edge user-focussed online store building suite, and now they’re taking the idea of simple […]
Twitter Developers Exchange Stars for Hearts
Twitter turned ten this year. Like dog years, startup years tend to fly by quickly — as any experienced iPhone app developer will be quick to report. As growth slows down compared to industry competitors like Instagram and Facebook, Twitter is experiencing some very public growing pains. With over 300 million users, Twitter may not […]
Snapchat’s Valuation: $10 Billion and Climbing
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that old axiom is true, then the number of Snapchat clones and lookalikes popping up on the Internet suggest that website developers hold the original disappearing photo-sharing service in very high regard. Under the direction of founder Evan Spiegel and Jonathan May, Snapchat took […]