Tag: app store

I can’t stand spam in all the mobile app stores…

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…but I bet the PR team love it: Have you seen the number of applications that are little more than a list of website articles? Or launch a bookmark? Or are yet another eBook reader of the Project Gutenberg text of A Princess of Mars? Why are they all still flooding every mobile app store on the planet? Because I think, secretly, the stores love the spam. Don’t get me wrong, they’re never going to say that out loud, they’re never going to even give a nudge and a wink to it, but part of the management teams must look

Why Nokia seeding app store numbers with developer commissions is a good idea

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Nokia shoring up their app numbers by comissioning 300 applications from a North American developer? Seems like a smart investment to me. The circle of life in an app store needs a virtuou circle of make apps, get them to users, get income, make more apps. For new developers to come on board, they need to be comfortable that the get income bit is going to work. So Nokia kicking off the process by putting apps in the store seems a good use of money. Choose another 20-30 developers and offer them a nice advance on some new apps so they

Where is the end-game for the Smartphone app patent wars?

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From the other Ewan:  Indeed, if you really, really want to screw up Apple, one would imagine that you should setup a company, invent a lot of useless stupid patents — or buy some existing ones for a lump of dosh — and set-about PR’ing the hell out of your infringement war, scaring all and sundry and demanding millions in compensation from each developer. You obviously wouldn’t need to go through with it to have an effect on Apple. Twitter, Facebook (and now Google+) mean that our world is super-hyper-amazingly connected. Developers even more so. What would happen to Apple’s

Apple slap GetJar with cease and desist over "App Store"

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GetJar, which bills itself as “the world’s largest free app store” and distributes apps for Android, BlackBerry, Java, Symbian and the mobile web, received a cease and desist letter from Apple’s attorneys over the use of the phrase “app store.” Perhaps Steve Jobs’ company is counting on GetJar having smaller pocket than Amazon… and then using it as a precedent on others?

Another app that lets you digg apps

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Trying to work out what application will amuse your ADHD for the next fifteen minutes on your smartphone? Have a look at Ribblet, from Australian Mark Biegel. It takes the app catalogue of Android and iOS and adds a Digg style mechanic of thumbs up and down ratings on top of the list, along with following other users that match your style. It seems to be a common problem that people want to address, how to find a good app, and lots of apps out there are hoping to be the nexus, creating both a focal point in the ecosystem,

RWW looks at Windows Phone Mango before bowling a backhanded compliment

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How weird is it that Microsoft is the company doing the “think different” routine in mobile? Instead of searching for apps, a task which many first-time smartphone users are overwhelmed by due to the sheer quantities available, users just search and the apps find them. This might be the most overlooked of all of Mango’s updates, but it’s the one that could have the biggest impact on the mobile application economy going forward… That is, if Microsoft can ever sell enough of these phones for it to matter.