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Patent holding firm threatens iOS developers
British patent holding firm Lodsys has sent legal documents via FedEx to several indie developers for Apple’s iOS platform threatening to sue for patent infringement over their use of Apple’s in-app purchasing system and upgrade links, according to a report at Cult of Mac. Whether or not Lodsys is directly threatening Apple is unknown, but [...]
Confirmed: Apple bans reviews submitted from promotional codes
“I am sorry to inform that it is no longer possible to rate or review an app if it was downloaded user a developer’s promotional code,” an iTunes Store Customer Support staff member wrote to one app user who complained about being unable to review an app this week. This confirms an earlier MacRumors report that [...]
Google to lease app-centric Chrome laptops for $20-28/month
UPDATE: Google has announced its “Chromebooks,” from Samsung and Acer. Pricing is $28 per month for businesses and $20 per month for students, with the first notebooks available on June 15th.] Google will announce a “student package” tomorrow that offers laptops running the Chrome browser — and nothing else — for $20 per month. Forbes [...]
Android fragmentation makes developers skittish, Appcelerator finds
A survey of users of the Appcelerator Titanium cross-platform app development tool found that while their enthusiasm for Apple’s growing array of iOS devices remains high, fewer are “very interested” in developing for Android phones and tablets, despite the fact that Android gadgets now outsell Apple in numbers. Appcelerator’s survey, conducted every three months, also [...]
Chomp report: Only one in 11 app searches are by name
Still looking to get your app discovered? A new report from app search engine Chomp claims that only 9 percent of queries for iOS apps for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are explicit app names. The rest are for categories, led by “productivity,” and for specific app functions. “Developers, this means an awareness of [...]
Android Market poised to pass Apple in size
Reports from app analysts Distimo and research2guidance agree that this summer, the apps available for Android users will outnumber those in Apple’s App Store. Distimo says it will happen in July, research2guidance in August. By then, research2guidance estimates there’ll be 425,000 Android apps in the Market. It’s great news for Android owners and advertisers, who will have [...]
App store revenue to rise 77% this year, says iSuppli
Consumer spending on apps is, as you’re probably noticed, going nowhere but up this year. A research report by analyst firm iSuppli says that while total revenue for the four largest app stores — Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM — totaled $2.1 billion in 2010, revenue for 2011 is on its way to $3.8 billion. [...]
Google bows to carriers, hides tethering apps
Google’s Android chief, Andy Rubin, once said, “We also look forward to the day when consumers can access any application … from any device, on any network.” Two years later, Google has gone the other way by bowing to wireless carriers’ requests to make it much harder for Android users to use an app to tether [...]
Mobile payments could tap into multi-trillion-dollar market
Retail shoppers spend trillions of dollars onsite at stores every year. App makers would like to tap into that gargantuan cash flow. But how? Panelists at the AppNation SF conference in San Francisco last week didn’t have a simple answer, except for one critical goal: There’s going to be a rush by payment companies, financial institutions, [...]
How to upsell your freemium audience
Like it or not, free apps — at least free for download — have become the most popular products among app users. The trick is to get them to gladly pay afterwards — and keep paying. At the AppNation SF conference in San Francisco last week, W3i co-founder Rob Weber, InEarth CEO Neil Haran, and ngmoco [...]
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