The headline gracing Walt Mossberg’s column in the Wednesday, March 13 edition of the Wall Street Journal sent me first to the back of the paper and the Personal Journal section. It reads, “How Apple Gets All the Good Apps,” and you can read it here. I enjoy Mossberg’s columns and believe he does his […]
Some of you may have read this past week about Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va.) Do Not Track Online Act, which he has reintroduced this year after it failed to emerge from committee in 2011. Anyone who operates a website or mobile app should read the bill, which you can do here. The bill would force […]
The video game industry has enjoyed a multi-decade run of enormous economic success. It redefined the way consumers engage their televisions. It has given birth to a new breed of storytellers, ones that include programmers and designers who are capable of producing characters, narratives, and worlds on a par with the best Hollywood has to […]
With the smell of roses and the taste of chocolates exchanged on Valentine’s Day still lingering on the palate, I wanted to share an article on dating services I found this week that surprised me. According to analytics firm Flurry, men dominate usage of mobile dating apps. It’s not even close; 66 percent of users […]
Intelligent people with lots of mobile industry experience still debate this topic aggressively, which is understandable given the stakes. All of us in the industry can see users surging toward mobile. The question is how best to serve those users: app or web (or both)? In this post, I’m not going to answer the question. […]
Here are some quick hits on recent news from Facebook and Yahoo, as well as a post mortem on the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Google vs. Facebook, Yahoo: Diverging approaches to growing the mobile advertising business I recently wrote about Google’s latest earnings announcement – you can read it here – and mentioned both the […]
Google’s earnings announcement on Wednesday, Jan. 22, prompted a spike in its stock price despite delivering some news that at first glance looked bad. What’s going on here? Like many companies that have built their businesses on attracting a digital audience to serve largely digital content, Google is confronting and managing a massive shift in […]
Last week, Ford unveiled its developer program at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A developer program targets software developers and typically includes tools they can use to create apps, as well as get design advice, testing and technical support, and distribution opportunities. Ford reported that over 1,000 developers registered in the program’s […]
I can’t stop thinking about ways the mobile app industry as a whole, and the companies that drive it, can make money. As I have written before, that’s primarily driven by an interest in self-preservation. I work in this industry, and it has to generate more money for more players. Today, the apps side of […]
I’m admittedly bowing to the tendency this time of year to offer predictions and resolutions for the New Year. In offering them, I adhere to Gregg Easterbrook’s standard of quality for such things, which he summarizes with the following guarantee: “All predictions wrong or your money back.” With that caveat out of the way, here […]
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