Apr 15 2010
Some of my thoughts on the iAd platform that were posted on our company’s blog:
The big thing that iAd really does is it brings new thinking into the capabilities of mobile display advertising and it wasn’t brought to you by Google. Google has been badly lagging in all aspects of mobile and Apple probably saw the lack of innovation in the mobile advertising market and decided to put their stake in the ground. Let’s also be clear here that mobile display advertising isn’t yet a billion dollar business, this isn’t about the money for Apple but reshaping the industry as they saw fit.
The bottom line for Apple is the continuing creation of new and free apps for the App Store while everything else, like being the innovator in mobile advertising, sticking it to Google, pre-emptively blocking Adobe are just bonuses.
How crazy awesome is it that we got a presentation from the former CEO of Quattro?
Feb 16 2010
“Windows Phone 7 is hanging over them (Windows Mobile 6.5 phones) like a particularly sharp and heavy Damoclean sword.”
Feb 11 2010
Will we get bored of Four Square or is there a generational shift at play?
Wonderful site, clever way to showcase the work.
Jan 19 2010
Mobile app predictions for 2013 from Gartner:
- 21.6 billion apps downloaded (about 2.5 billion in 2009)
- $29.5 billion revenue
- 25% of revenue will be free apps using advertising ($7.3 billion)
- 2009: a downloaded app generates $1.68 of revenue
- 2013 (estimated): a downloaded app generates $1.36 of revenue
Jan 7 2010
“Sam Altman, the chief executive of Loopt, a mobile tracking service that allows users to monitor friends’ locations using the G.P.S. software on their cellphones, said he was seeing social mores shift firsthand. About 20 percent of Loopt’s users are couples who buy the service to keep track of each other’s whereabouts. But in the past six months, there has been an increase in the number of customers who use fake locations as a decoy so a person doesn’t know where they are, Mr. Altman said, a service that Loopt offers.”
Dec 8 2009
developers, carriers, publishers and others in the ecosystem should consider it a new operating system. That’s because Samsung has built an accompanying SDK today, which will act as the blueprint for anything that is built for the platform. In other words, applications built for Java, Android, Symbian, the iPhone, or any other smartphone platform won’t be compatible. Welcome Samsung to the world of more fragmentation.
Welcome to the exciting world of the walled garden.
Nov 11 2009
“The company wants to be a total provider like Apple, with its own platform and app store… Being a total provider is every company’s dream right now.”
Oct 28 2009
Amazing story of Motorola’s 2009 Q4 offerings from a year ago. How’d they get so lucky with Verizon?
Moto’s CEO is one of the highest paid CEOs anywhere, if he makes Droid work, he’ll have earned it.
