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 »
A company called Fyusion is trying to redo the photo app with a 3-D imaging technology that captures the spatial features of objects in order to generate multi-dimensional images. Photos, however,… Read more »
Need a better way to organize and share your iPhone photos? You might want to try Viewfinder, a free app from former Google executives, that is launching a new version today. Read more »
Amid the newer top-ranking photo and video apps (those less than 180 days old), combination apps are only 6 percentage points behind dedicated enhancement apps, whereas the gap is 14 percent… Read more »
Newer photo and video apps have a much larger share of the lowest-priced app market ($0.99) than they have of the higher-priced app market. 46 percent of the $0.99 apps had… 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 »
36 percent of the 508 top-ranking photo and video apps are primarily used to enhance photos, followed by 24 percent that primarily combine photos with other photos or other elements Read more »
Thirty-one percent of the top-ranking photo and video apps had been introduced in the past 180 days at the time of writing, with 16 percent less than 90 days old. Read more »
Most of Android photo and video apps are now between 180 days and 1 year old, representing the flood of new apps we reported in the June analysis. So it is… 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 »