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| Jul 15, 2016 | AT&T and IBM Team to Bring Enhanced Internet of Things Capabilities to Developers on IBM Cloud | IoT Developers Can Gain Deeper Insights from Data on Connected Devices With New Open Standards- Based Capabilities
AT&T and IBM are working together to help businesses accelerate their Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives. The two compa... |
| Apr 12, 2016 | What can a toothbrush teach us about IoT business models? | Michael Vakulenko Contributor
Michael Vakulenko is the strategy director at VisionMobile.
E-commerce has become increasingly popular as a business model for the Internet of Things in the consumer space.
A toothbrush example, as simple as it... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Is There An App Divide? | Mobile has promised to be the great social leveler, with 90% of the world’s population over the age of 6 projected to own a phone by 2020. But according to a new Caribou Wireless study, virtually all of the value in the app economy is captu... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | Unity Announces Native Support For SteamVR | Two major powerhouses in the gaming industry announced that they would be working together to churn out killer VR content.
Unity Technologies and Valve announced today that the Unity platform would be gaining native support for SteamVR, all... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Why The Wearables Developer Market Population Is Taking A Plunge | Few things are as hyped as the Internet of Things (IoT), so why is the wearables developer population shrinking?
According to a new VisionMobile report, 21% of IoT developers have near-term plans to develop for the wearables market, down sh... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | You’re Using PhoneGap For All The Wrong Reasons | Cross-platform development tools like PhoneGap and Xamarin have never been more popular. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that they may be popular for all the wrong reasons.
According to a new Visionmobile survey of 8,000 mobile develo... |
| May 20, 2015 | Good news for mobile indie developers determined to make it big | A middle class of mobile game developers making significant money is finally emerging — thanks to the preferences of lucrative players from the “long tail.”
Let’s start with the supply-side of the equation.
The steady stream of new apps acr... |
| Apr 10, 2015 | Who’s Winning The Internet Of Things Developer War? Apple And Google | Developers are the new kingmakers, and nowhere will this resonate more than in the growing Internet of Things market. In fact, the easiest way to pick winners in this emerging field is to look for Internet of Things companies with the bigge... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Can We Please Stop Fighting The Native vs. Web App Wars? | James Long, a developer at Mozilla (and proponent of the web), insists that the mobile Web will never compete with native app development. Ever. While Long is intentionally provocative with his prophecies, he may also be correct.
At the sam... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Expanding on 'New Questions in Mobile' | Benedict Evans recently wrote an insightful piece exploring new questions for the mobile industry. Among the five questions he brought up, I believe that the evolution of interaction models and messaging will end up being the most important... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Why You Need NoSQL For The Internet Of Things | Your relational database is great. Really, it is. But it’s not going to help you with your Internet of Things project. Really, it isn’t.
At least, not according to a study by Machina Research, which looks at the management of data in the co... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Why Booming Mobile Commerce Is Good For Developers | While games continue to dominate the apps that consumers buy, there are clear signs that the future of mobile may not be what they allow you to play, but what they enable you to buy. According to a new research report, mobile commerce is fi... |
| Oct 17, 2014 | Why The Internet of Things Has To Be Open Sourced | In a world increasingly shaped by software, developers are market makers. Nowhere is this more true than in the burgeoning Internet of Things market.
See also: The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020
Currently riddle... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | HTML5 Has A New Best Friend—And It’s Apple, Not Google | Google should be leading HTML5 development, but it’s not. No, that honor goes to Apple, the company that has done more to trumpet the virtue of native apps than anyone else.
Apple isn’t known for being a champion of open source or open stan... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | The iPhone 6 Dilemma: Finding Enough Useful Apps To Fill A Bigger Home Screen | Among other advancements, the iPhone 6 promises another row of application icons on your home screen. The question is whether you can usefully fill it.
Apple trumpets the availability of 1.3 million apps in its App Store, but in reality we ... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | The Internet Of Things Will Be Huge, And So Will Hadoop | Big Data challenges all of our assumptions about how data should be stored, processed and analyzed. But that doesn’t mean relational databases and other incumbent technologies are slouching toward obsolescence anytime soon.
That’s the view ... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Hey, Android Developers—Why Should iOS Coders Have All The Fun? | Apple iOS developers spend most of their time coding. Android developers? They use the bulk of their time testing and debugging their code, according to an Evans Data report.
This isn’t because Android developers must compensate for poor co... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | UK App Economy 2014 | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Sizing the app Economy, jobs and opportunities for developers in Britain
This report offers snapshot of the mobile app industry in the UK, presenting an overview of the marke... |
| Jul 9, 2014 | Uber Is A Sign Of Epic Technology Battles To Come | The best technologies and companies don’t commoditize existing markets. They create entirely new markets.
Take Uber. Ostensibly competitive with taxis or sedan services, the reality is that Uber competes with non-use. Or, as Uber CEO techno... |
| Jul 5, 2014 | Lessons From Sourcebits’ Road To Acquisition | Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor
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Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy, an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C brands and e-commerce companies.
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| Jul 3, 2014 | iOS Developers Make More Money, But Android’s Volume Is Closing The Gap | Looking at smartphone and tablet sales, Google’s Android ecosystem should be printing money for developers. After all, not only are Android device sales outpacing Apple’s iPhone and iPad sales, but Google also shares more Android-related re... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020 | It’s standard to size a market by the number of widgets sold, but in the Internet of Things, which numbers sensors and devices in the billions, widget counts don’t really matter. In part this is because the real money in IoT is not in the “... |
| May 28, 2014 | Facebook Is Harvesting Apple’s And Google’s Developers | Developers who want to make money may want to spend less time with Apple and Google and more time with Facebook. Though both Google and Apple trumpet their vast app ecosystems, the reality is that it’s hard for app developers to stand out o... |
| May 26, 2014 | Hey, App Developers: You May Be Missing A Big Opportunity In Poor And Middle America | While East and West Coasters may think themselves the pinnacle of technological progress, it’s Middle America that leads the way in going “all in” on mobile adoption. People hugging the coasts get the best broadband, but they’re laggards wh... |
| Mar 17, 2014 | The real threat to Google's business model | With Google's stock price hovering near all-time highs, the risks to its business model have become a hot button topic among industry observers. The dramatic shift to mobile computing has the potential to upend every single company and indu... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | HTML5 Catches Up To Apple | As Apple’s market share slips to Google’s surging little green robot, developers are increasingly turning to HTML5 as a way to embrace both iOS and Android.
According to Vision Mobile’s latest Developer Economics report, Apple’s developer m... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | 7,000 app developers in 127 countries say e-commerce is now the best mobile monetization strategy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s not pay-for-download. Not advertising. Not freemium. And not in-app purchases. Instead, for the rank-and-file of the hundreds of t... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | 7,000 app developers in 127 countries say e-commerce is now the best mobile monetization strategy | It’s not pay-for-download. Not advertising. Not freemium. And not in-app purchases. Instead, for the rank-and-file of the hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of mobile developers around the world, e-commerce is now the most lucrative... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Android Developer Interest Is Catching Up To Its Market Share | The app developer community may have finally hit an inflection point for Android. A year ago mobile developers preferred Apple’s iOS, given superior tooling and revenue opportunities. Yet, today’s developers simply can’t ignore Android’s an... |
| Dec 18, 2013 | Mobile Developers Find More Opportunity, And Money, In Enterprise Over Consumer Apps | While mobile developers may hope to strike it rich with the next Candy Crush Saga, the reality is that enterprise developers stand to make four times as much money building mobile apps than consumer-oriented developers do, according to rese... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | I hate to sound like an Apple apologist, but... | Google groupies make too much of third quarter tablet shipment estimates released yesterday. By IDC's reckoning, Apple's global share fell from 40.2 percent to 29.6 percent year over year. Meanwhile, Samsung soared from 12.4 percent to 20.4... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | Saving The World, One Text At A Time | It was Marissa’s 18th birthday when she was rescued from an abusive pimp by a team of undercover police officers. A text message saved her life.
Marissa sent a text to the Polaris Project, a nonprofit organization that works to combat human... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Microsoft-Nokia Deal: a tale of desperation | After Microsoft announced that it was acquiring substantially all of Nokia's devices & services business, the stock market painted a fairly accurate picture of what this deal means -- Nokia investors were relieved as the stock surged by... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Android Fragmentation: Getting Worse All The Time | You might think that Samsung’s dominance of the Android ecosystem would make Android’s long-time nemesis, fragmentation, better. But you would be wrong.
A recent set of visualizations from OpenSignal captures this point well. Yes, Samsung c... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | 6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most ‘next’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average ... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | 6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most ‘next’ | The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers pull in $4,700, more developers plan to start d... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | Cloudmine: this RISK-inspired INFOGRAPHIC shows Callowhill startup has 11% of mobile backend service market | Cloudmine, the mobile backend startup, holds 11 percent of the backend-as-a-service (BaaS) market, VisionMobile reported. That’s the second largest market share, according to VisionMobile, only following Parse, with its 28 percent market sh... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Android, iOS Top Developer Mindshare As Lead Platforms, But RIM’s Not So Far Behind, Finds Global Developer Survey | When it comes to developing for mobile platforms, Android and iOS — the top two mobile platforms by device sales worldwide — are also first in the mind of app makers. But surprisingly, beleaguered BlackBerry isn’t so far behind: an indicati... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Microsoft announces online and in-person Windows 8 developer camps | Like it or not, Windows 8 is here to stay and Microsoft wants to make sure developers are ready to provide users with all the apps they desire. To that end, the company has announced a series of online and in-person developer camps in an ef... |
| Sep 15, 2012 | Hardware is dead | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I go to China every four or five months for work. I have to visit all the corporate headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, but the highl... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Is Microsoft Pricing Itself Out of Its Own App Market? | On Friday, Microsoft revealed that the minimum price for a paid Windows 8 app would be $1.49 – 50% more than the 99-cent entry-level pricing that most mobile users have been accustomed to. Has Microsoft priced itself out of its own app mark... |
| Jul 10, 2012 | RIM Investing $100 Million To Build Developer Community — Is It Too Late? | Research in Motion (RIM) is investing $100 million to grow the developer community for the BlackBerry platform, according to e27, a blog covering the Asia tech scene.
The immediate question that comes to mind: “Is it too late?” RIM is tryin... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | Report: 57% Of Mobile Developers Plan To Adopt Windows Phone | Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform may not be a huge hit with consumers just yet, but according to a new report by market analysis and strategy firm VisionMobile, it’s definitely catching on with developers. Almost 60% of the developers who... |
| May 27, 2012 | How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World | Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of Tech Innovation at UNICEF. Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class ”De... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Apple is winning the mobile platform wars | In October 2009, I explained why "iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars". Many of the reasons then still hold true today. But I wrote that analysis before Apple released iPad. So, 10 months later I followed up with "Apple can... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Is Android the most closed open source project? | If you were to ask an average Android fan what the best part of the operating system was, there is a good chance that their reply would be that it’s an open source project. The fact that it’s freely available to use and work with is the cor... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | The Application Island: Gaining Mobile Developer Mindshare | The barrier for entry for creating software for computing devices has never been lower. This has a lot to do with the mobile revolution. According to a report from VisionMobile, the time to market for applications has decreased from 82 days... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | It’s Still A Feature Phone World: Global Smartphone Penetration At 27% | With all the talk of iPhone vs. Android these days, it’s easy to forget how the majority of the world’s mobile users still make calls and access data: via feature phones. A recently released report (download) from mobile strategy firm Visio... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Network Effects: How Google & Apple Dominate Mobile | The mobile platform wars are in full swing. Android and Apple dominate the landscape but a new report from VisionMobile says that there will be no clear winner in the battle for supremacy over the mobile market. Android controls the numbers... |
| Aug 13, 2011 | Google Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Sharing Android Code | News Google Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Sharing Android Code By Kurt MackieAugust 13, 2011
The ongoing feud between Microsoft and Google over the Google-backed Android mobile OS continued this week, when Google claimed that a Microsoft ... |
| Aug 13, 2011 | Google Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Sharing Android Code | News Google Accuses Microsoft of Improperly Sharing Android Code By Kurt MackieAugust 13, 2011
The ongoing feud between Microsoft and Google over the Google-backed Android mobile OS continued this week, when Google claimed that a Microsoft ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms | Photograph by Chuck Coker reader comments 112 with 72 posters participating
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| Oct 19, 2010 | Myriad Group confirms Market Leadership in New VisionMobile 100m Club Report | Myriad only company leading more than one software category
Myriad one of only two companies to be ranked on both embedded software shipments and mobile platform shipments lists
Myriad featured in three categories with combined shipments no... |
| Sep 23, 2010 | Will Nokia build Windows phones? | (Update: Nokia disagrees with our report. However, we have two additional sources which agree with it).
According to a trusted source, Nokia is now likely to use Windows Phone 7 as an additional platform for its phones. Also, Nokia’s board ... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Developers increasingly have Android on the brain | reader comments 62 with 40 posters participating, including story author
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Apple's App Store attracted thousands of developers and boasts hundreds of thousands of apps. While... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Why Nokia is Losing Ground to Apple and Android | Nokia (NOK), the global leader in mobile phones, has lost its mojo. The company's new head of Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, admitted as much in a fiery blog post he wrote about getting Nokia back to #1. But what Vanjoki's post revealed, ... |
| Jul 5, 2010 | Everything You Need To Know About The Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem | Considering the immense fragmentation that characterizes the mobile apps industry, it’s good to see decent research help us try and make sense of what’s going on in that particular part of the digital economy, one that is consistently growi... |
| May 10, 2010 | VisionMobile 100 Million Club Report Marks Myriad's Continued Dominance in Mass-Market Mobile Software | Myriad featured in three categories with combined shipments now reaching over 3.5 billion software applications
Myriad Messaging software leads middleware category, shipped in over 1 billion phones
DUEBENDORF-ZURICH, Switzerland – May 10, 2... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Google's Android Restrictions Are Not Evil, Just Business-As-Usual | I've written a fair amount about how completely Apple (AAPL) controls the iPhone OS ecosystem. Yet according to mobile market analyst firm Vision Mobile, the (well-fortified) house Steve Jobs built is no more controlling than Google's (GOOG... |
| May 5, 2009 | Mobile 2.0 Europe — bringing together mobile influencers | Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe: a two-day event on June 18-19, 2009 in Barcelona that will explore the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, presented by Dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.
After 3 events in... |
| Исследование: Разработчики мобильных приложений больше всего зарабатывают на BlackBerry | Исследование: Разработчики мобильных приложений больше всего зарабатывают на BlackBerry
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Английская аналитическая компания Vision Mobile опубликовала исследование, раскрывающее детали экономики би... |
| App Economy: Games dominam App Stores, mas… | Games dominam a economia das Apps. Segundo a empresa App Annie, 80% da receita das lojas de aplicativos estão na categoria de games e essa porcentagem está crescendo! Entretanto, segundo a pesquisa sobre a economia das Apps feita pela Visio... |
| Монетизируй меня полностью: 5 способов зарабатывать на мобильном приложении | Монетизируй меня полностью: 5 способов зарабатывать на мобильном приложении
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| Developer Economics Q3 2014: veja oportunidades na pesquisa da VisionMobile | Um dos melhores raios-X da economia mobile é a pesquisa feita pela empresa VisionMobile, Developer Economics. A pesquisa é feita a cada três meses, e a edição Q3 de 2014 já está disponível para download.
A pesquisa foi feita através de mais... |
