Apple’s iOS8 photo announcements come up short on social site sync and leading-edge search. That leaves plenty of room other apps to innovate on combining metadata, social graphs, and image recognition. Read more »
With low barriers to entry, the photo and video app market consists of a large number of developers and is certainly not limited to a handful of well-financed startups: According to… Read more »
Among the 285 top-ranking paid photo and video apps, 35 percent are priced at $0.99, the minimum price point allowed in the iTunes Store and Google Play. Read more »
Photo and video app prices on the platform that has been on the market longer, the iPhone, are lower than on the newer platform, Android: 51 percent of the iPhone apps… Read more »
IPhone photo and video apps have considerably higher ratings than Android apps. One explanation for this that were heard among cross-platform developers is that a more fragmented platform like Android makes… Read more »
The majority of the top-ranking free iPhone photo and video apps now have in-app purchasing options (56 percent). The same is true for free iPad apps. Read more »