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Category Archives: App Economy

What is a ‘device’? – A response to Stratechery

March 14, 2014by D/D Advisors Leave a comment

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 […]

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App Economy, Appconomy, Components, Home Networking, M2M, Mobile Web, Wireless

MWC 2014: Enterprise Mobility & The Fragmentosphere

March 10, 2014by D/D Advisors Leave a comment

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 […]

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Android, App Economy, Appconomy, iOS, Mobile Web, MWC

The times, they are a changing: MWC Edition

February 25, 2014by D/D Advisors 1 Comment

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 […]

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App Economy, Appconomy, Mobile Web, The Valley

Software is a competitive advantage: King Digital vs. Zynga

February 21, 2014by D/D Advisors 2 Comments

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. […]

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App Economy, Appconomy, IPO, Mobile Web, Networking

What does WhatsApp say about Facebook?

February 20, 2014by D/D Advisors 1 Comment

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 […]

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App Economy, Appconomy, Mobile Web, The Valley

How much is a social gaming user worth? King Digital files for an IPO

February 19, 2014by D/D Advisors 3 Comments

  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 […]

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App Economy, Appconomy, Google, iOS, IPO, Mobile Ads, Mobile Payments, Stocks, The Street

A few thoughts on mobile apps

January 14, 2014by D/D Advisors 1 Comment

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 […]

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Android, App Economy, Appconomy, China, Google, iOS, Mobile Ads, Mobile OS, Mobile Payments

Apps and the state of programming languages

January 10, 2014by D/D Advisors 2 Comments

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 […]

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Android, App Economy, Google, iOS, Mobile OS, Mobile Web

”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”

December 27, 2013by D/D Advisors 13 Comments

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 […]

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Android, App Economy, China, Google, Mobile OS, Mobile Web

App searching just got smarter

June 4, 2013by D/D Advisors Leave a comment

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 […]

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App Economy, Mobile Web

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