How to rule the App Store in 2017: 5 trends to use to your advantage
App Store Optimization (ASO) in 2017 demands that app publishers stay one step ahead of the competition by taking advantage of newly...
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Android now the world’s dominant OS, surpassing Windows
According to StatCounter, the Android operating system has now passed Microsoft Windows as the leading OS globally. The data reflect...
Apple reports best quarter ever: $78.4B revenue, 78M iPhones sold
After three consecutive quarters of year-over-year sales declines, Apple announced its biggest quarter ever. The company beat revenue and...
Top smartphone apps of 2016: Google and Facebook control 8 out of the top 10 slots
Many top year-end lists are now coming out, and Nielsen has released its ranking of the the top smartphone apps of 2016. In its ranking...
Report: Apple working on augmented reality glasses for potential 2018 release
According to reports, Apple is developing digital glasses. However, if the product appears at all, it won’t be until 2018 at the...
Study says only 8 percent of shoppers use retailer apps. Should they give up?
It’s very well established that consumers use smartphones as shopping assistants in stores. We’re now getting into the nuances of how...
Apple revenues of $47B in line but down, iPhone sales down year over year
Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings are out. Revenues of $46.9 billion were in line with analysts’ modest expectations; earnings per...
The ins, outs and industry effects of Apple’s Limit Ad Tracking changes
Apple’s iOS 10 update was a huge shot across the bow in the mobile advertising world. Apple rolled out search ads in the iOS App Store to...
Report: Apple may be six months from launching an Echo-like Siri assistant
A second report, from Bloomberg, says that Apple is developing an Amazon Echo-like stand alone virtual assistant based on Siri. That...
Apple introduces jackless iPhone 7 with improved camera, and waterproof Watch
People are focused on the fact that there’s no headphone jack on the new iPhone. But while that’s grabbing attention, Apple introduced a...
Apple begins purge of neglected, broken apps; no more ASO with app names
There are more than 2 million apps for iOS devices. However, beginning next week, Apple will be trying to reduce that number somewhat....
Apple sells its billionth iPhone, but Samsung gains market share
Following its quarterly earnings earlier this week, Apple announced that it had sold its billionth iPhone. Introduced in January 2007,...
Not just for payments, mobile wallets an underused consumer channel — [survey]
Mobile wallets: they’re not just for payments anymore. That’s according a new Urban Airship survey of 2,000 adults in the US and UK. The...
In-app purchases dwarf ad revenues, as iOS App Store exceeds $71 billion
US mobile ad revenue in 2015 was approximately 35 percent total digital revenue, or $20.8 billion. However, revenue from in-app ads is...
Survey: Android Pay most used payment app, security fears holding adoption back
At Apple’s WWDC yesterday, the company announced that it was extending Apple Pay to the mobile web. This was rumored earlier this year...
Siri goes viral: Apple opens up the virtual assistant to third-party developers
Among the many iOS-related announcements today at Apple’s developer conference, there was the anticipated news that Siri would be opened...
Google Analytics begins breaking out iOS traffic by model (when it can)
If you’re a Google Analytics user and you’d like to know which iOS models and devices your visitors are using, there’s good news and bad...
Report: Most iOS app store revenue goes to top 1 percent of publishers
Talk about the top one percent. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the top one percent of US iOS App Store app developers with...
Android grows its share vs. iOS, Windows in all major markets [Report]
On a day when Google parent Alphabet passed Apple’s market cap, Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reported that the Android operating system is...
Twitter recategorized itself from “social networking” to “news” in Apple’s A
Twitter’s not a social network anymore; it’s in the news industry, at least that’s what its iOS app indicates. Twitter appears to have...
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