Posts tagged “Mobile”

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
Tags: Mobile
Jan 19 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.

Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl - NYTimes.com

Fascinating consequence of using mobile tracking services.

Tags: Mobile
Jan 7 2010
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.

Tags: Mobile
Dec 8 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.

— Greg Noh, analyst at HMC Securities in Seoul

Samsung Offers Software Platform - WSJ.com

Why Microsoft has XBox and Zune, why Google has cloud everything and why Apple is winning.

Tags: Convergence Mobile
Nov 11 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.

Tags: Business Mobile
Oct 28 2009

Oh benevolent bureaucracy, you can help create domestic saturation of markets and build world handset manufacturers but then you fail to make any decent smartphone to take on the world.

The iPhone entering Korea after 190 countries have already approved it is an embarassing test of regulatory failure. Opening markets will undoubtedly help but it will take time for Samsung and LG to catchup.

Tags: Mobile iPhone
Sep 23 2009

Some interesting numbers from mobile about who is #1. Intriguing to see AOL #1 at anything beside suck.

Tags: Mobile
Sep 18 2009

This is now a grudge match. Who will buy whom? It’s only a matter of time. 

Tags: Mobile
Aug 10 2009

Galápagos syndrome

Tags: Mobile
Jul 21 2009