BlackBerry App World launch came too late for Research in Motion to be the mobile app winner. It’s no joke, on April 1 RIM debuted BlackBerry App World for the U.S., U.K. and Canada so users can buy apps via mobile over WiFi and cellular networks. The app store brings the convenience of buying apps [...]
Recent research shows iPhone owners are the most frequent application store users. Research firm In-Stat shows, by surveying phone users, that iPhone owners are the most active app store users “signficantly outpacing” users of Blackberry, Palm OS or Windows Mobile phones. One more interesting note: another In-Stat report found that the median number of apps [...]
A round-up of the latest mobile app store news: Study: Mobile App Stores Users to Quadruple by 2014 Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Android, BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), Windows Mobile, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), even Acer and Samsung, are all pointed towards on-device digital distribution; according to In-Stat, upwards of 100 million handsets with application stores on them will [...]
Facebook unveiled “Facebook Connect” for iPhone app developers about a week ago at South by Southwest. Now, apps one by one are adding the feature, some well, some not. So far my favorite use of Facebook Connect is in Scrabble by EA. I started games with Facebook friends from my iPhone and the web, picked [...]
Apple is unveiling the next version of the iPhone operating system March 17. ArsTechnica received an invite and wrote this: “The invite-only event is geared towards the new iPhone SDK, Apple says, and will give the media a “sneak peek” at the iPhone OS 3.0 software. The event will apparently be an intimate one, as [...]
