The new messaging app Yo is rapidly attracting attention from users despite its laughably limited functionality. Even if its gimmicky nature quickly fades, though, its early success contains lessons for developers… Read more »
Prior to iOS 7, Apple’s design guidelines assumed that smartphone users were new to touchscreen user interfaces. That assumption was discarded with iOS 7, and developers had to shift their thinking,… Read more »
Developers are hard at work getting ready for the release of iOS 7 this week. One easy way to tell is by how little they appear to be working on their… Read more »
The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
Apple stole the spotlight in the third quarter with a fascinating series of both positive and negative headlines. Its iPhone 5 was met with record sales that were nonetheless stymied by… Read more »
Today’s must-read is this thought-provoking post from The Wall Street Journal that compares the app industry to the early days of the U.S. music market. The massive inventories in Apple’s App… Read more »
Windows Phone has spun its wheels since its launch 18 months ago, but the operating system is beginning to show signs of life. And Microsoft is positioned to build on its… Read more »
Advertisers have long been enamored with the promise of location-based advertising (LBA). To date, however, national advertisers’ and agencies’ enthusiasm has been tempered by fragmented audiences, and advertisers and agencies have… Read more »
Apple today said it has acquired Chomp, a startup that offers a search engine for users looking for apps in the App Store and Google’s Android Market. While terms of the… Read more »
Call it the year of lessons learned, if not quite bubbles burst. In 2011, several trends in the connected consumer space that appeared inexorable at the start of the year seemed… Read more »