Almost exactly a year ago we went to CES in Las Vegas and met up with many of our app developer members to look at the year ahead. It felt like 2011 was gearing up to be an exciting year of growth, but also when app developers would attract the [...]
"It's a great time to be a developer" - for as long as I can remember, that has been the cheesiest and most common way to start the keynote presentation at a developer conference. It was a mantra that presenters would repeat over and over, even when they didn't believe [...]
Earlier this month, the total number of apps available in mobile marketplaces topped one million. Consumers now are able to easily find the nearest artisan cheese shop, play word games with friends halfway around the world, learn Mandarin Chinese, and check the score of the big game all from the [...]
As this cartoon points out, the iPhone apps business isn’t all fame and fortune. Customers who don’t hesitate spending $5 on a quick, fancy cup of coffee think twice before paying less than a quarter of that for an app that may give them hours or days of enjoyment and [...]
Why do we choose the products we choose, when there are so many alternatives? Viewers gravitate to the music, movies and art of professionals so it behooves us to allow those professionals who simply work harder and for longer on their craft to enjoy the fruits of that labor.