iOS 7 Early Adopters Updating to New Software in Droves
iOS 7 was only released to the iPhone app developer community a few weeks back but already Apple’s newest software platform is taking the mobile market by storm. According to analytics firm OnSwipe, Apple is seeing impressive user adoption numbers. 0.28 percent of all visits to their mobile-optimized sites came from iPads running iOS 7 […]
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 […]
Apple Releases iOS 7 Beta for iPad App Developers
Apple has released the Beta version of iOS 7 allowing iPad app developers to start cranking out new apps for the device. iOS 7 was released a few weeks ago at WWDC 2013 in San Francisco and for a short time was only available for iPhone app developers. According to TechCrunch, “..the new beta is […]
What Facebook’s Acquisition of Parse Means for Mobile Developers
Facebook is truly following through with their mobile-first strategy, dishing out $1 billion to snap up social photo heavy weight Instagram as well as dozens of less publicized mobile start-ups over the past few years. Now Parse, the “mobile-backend-as-a-service startup” (mBaas) which develops tools and services for mobile developers has joined the Facebook family. According […]
AppGratis Dealt Another Knockout Punch by Apple
In a stunning display of kicking a man while he’s down, Apple decided today to kill off AppGratis’ ability to send push notifications to their 12 million users. Earlier this month Apple stunned the iPhone app developer community by deleting AppGratis, a popular iOS app discovery platform from the iTunes app store. Existing users of […]