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Tips for HP TouchPad apps developers (based on tests)

Monday, July 11th, 2011

hp-touchpad Before the release of HP TouchPad the developer community was excited about the opportunities to use modern web technologies (like HTML 5 and Node.js) with the operating system webOS. Sencha, a provider of HTML 5 frameworks and tools for developers, has put the new gadget to the test in order to define its operability as an HTML 5 app platform.

After running all tests, the company’s representative Aditya Bansod claims that “The TouchPad looks quite promising, but still seems rough around the edges”. What exactly does he mean by saying that? Here are the main findings: (more…)

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Tags: mobile applications, mobile devices, TouchPad
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Google Apps won’t work with IE 7, Firefox 3.5 and Opera

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

google apps and browsers

Google Apps need to use the full capabilities of the modern browsers. “For example, desktop notifications for Gmail and drag-and-drop file upload in Google Docs require advanced browsers that support HTML5. Older browsers just don’t have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience. For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version is released, we’ll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version,” - reported Venkat Panchapakesan, Google’s Vice President of Engineering on June 1.
Starting from August 1st Google will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3. In these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely. Also Google is not going to support any version of Opera. (more…)

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Tags: google apps, mobile applications, mobile devices
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500 thousand apps and more interesting stats from AppStore

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

App Store stats

According to a report by Chomp, 148apps.com и Chillingo, the leading mobile app trader has got more that 500 thousand apps for iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod). 4 month ago the figure was just 350 thousand. As you can guess, such quantities allow App Store to remain the leader of mobile apps market.

The average price of an app equals $3,64 (in 2008 it was about $4-6). Free apps make 36% ot the total amount. If you decuded to purchase all the apps from App Store, that would cost you $891,982.24 + expenses for 7 terabytes of memory.

According to the report, App Store has sold apps for total of $2 billion. 30% of them went to Apple, and the rest was shared by 85 569 developers. (more…)

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Tags: iOS, iPhone, mobile applications, mobile devices
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Apps to start with for successful mobile commerce

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

mobile visits

Today’s situation with mobile purchases can be compared to internet purchses of the late 90’s. It is not huge yet, but the upgoing trend gives us some hints that it will be. Does it make sense to consider the new channel of sales? Yes, indeed. The next big question is which sub-channels of this channel to use first?

Native mobile apps VS web apps

Mobile websites are easier to create and maintain, but they generate only half of all visits from mobile devices and are less user-friendly than native apps due to technological constraints. Besides, native apps in some cases are more convertible (iPhone – 30% more, Android nearly the same, BlackBerry – less convertible, than average mobile website according to Kony Solutions). (more…)

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Mobile apps’ demand reflection in job market demand

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Smartphone and tablet PC penetration shows record growth during the last few years. Today more than every fifth phone sold is a smartphone, and by the end of 2011 this figure may rise to every fourth. According to different estimates, in 2010 about 300 million smartphones have been sold. For tablet PCs this figure equals about 20 million.

Naturally, this fact pushes demand to mobile apps from all segments and spheres of business. And the best recognition of that is the high demand for moblile apps developers.

Want proofs? There you go! First let’s check basic job trends from Indeed: