What is a ‘device’? – A response to Stratechery
A few days ago I read a post on Stratechery. Since half the traffic to this site comes from its author Ben Thompson’s Tweets, you are probably familiar with the […]
Category Archives: App Economy
MWC 2014: Enterprise Mobility & The Fragmentosphere
The world of enterprise mobility continues to evolve quickly. Prior to the sow, the big news was VMWare’s acquisition of AirWatch. Fitting news, since the big news last year was […]
The times, they are a changing: MWC Edition
As I type this, I am on a plane to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress (MWC). This is my eighth or ninth year of attendance. Not as long a history […]
Software is a competitive advantage: King Digital vs. Zynga
The other night, I took a close look at King Digital’s F-1 IPO filings. It made for some interesting reading. But as I finished the post, I noticed something interesting. […]
What does WhatsApp say about Facebook?
Last night I stumbled on a very interesting topic. I was hoping to publish that today, but the news cycle overtook me. The big news today was Facebook’s announced acquisition […]
How much is a social gaming user worth? King Digital files for an IPO
King Digital filed to go public this morning. For people who enjoy this sort of thing (raise my hand) this F-1 has been eagerly anticipated for a while. King Digital (ticker […]
A few thoughts on mobile apps
I have been thinking about how mobile apps make money. In my post on Friday, I linked to a post from web greybeard Tim Bray who lamented that no one […]
Apps and the state of programming languages
I still have content I want to discuss from CES, but frankly, I’m all CES-ed out for the moment. Fortunately, I saw a very good post on “Ongoing by Tim […]
”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
Back in June I wrote about the China branded OEMs as the last big ‘swing vote bloc’ in the handset market. These vendors which contribute so much to global handset […]
App searching just got smarter
A few weeks back we wrote about the miserable state of App Stores and discovery. There are now so many apps that it is hard for individual app developers to […]