Apple has released a new App Store application called iTunes Connect Mobile, designed to help developers access sales data for their applications distributed through the App Store. The iTunes Connect Mobile application allows developers to access their sales and trend data from iTunes Connect. You can now view your daily and weekly sales data related…
Month: June 2010
News
Guardian Mobile app wins AOP award
Congrats to my old mates on the Guardian team for winning the AOP award for Innovation http://www.ukaop.org.uk for the Guardian iPhone app. “Following the visual language of both newspaper and website, the Guardian iPhone app was designed to appeal to a mobile audience seeking a new, even more intuitive user experience. It has exceeded sales…
News
Jamie Oliver is in Apple’s top five apps of the year
The Apple WWDC jamboree is finally over for another year, and to mark the end of the fun they just awarded prizes for the apps they consider to be the very best of the best. Each year, Apple awards the iPhone apps that have excelled in design, whatever type of app or game they might…
Comment, News
O2 get nasty with their new data plans
On the June 24 O2 are to bring in a new set of data plans for their mobile users and they’re going to make a lot of iPhone users very unhappy. O2 are obviously tired of being castigated for their slow data connectivity, and have decided that the only answer is to make their heavy…
News
iPhone 4 now on Three and T-Mobile
First we had 02, then we had Orange and Vodafone, and now we have Three and possibly T-Mobile but probably not on the 24th June. So it can’t be long before Jobs brings the tablet iPhone 4 down from the mountain and hands it to Tesco. The positions are O2 You can register now for…
Comment
iPad bandwagon jumping volume 1 number 23 – Tailoring?
Now this is an interesting use of the iPad, an overpriced notepad, we think not. It’s just another desperate attempt to surf the wave of iPad publicity. Bespoke mens tailor King & Allen,are suing the Apple iPad in their shop to “improve and enhance the customer buying experience” which equates to they’re using it to…
News
How to upgrade from a 3GS to an iPhone 4 on O2
O2 have revealed their “Early Upgrade Charge” Offer for Pay Monthly & Business customers and it’s quite straightforward. The offer is open for a limited time but there’s nothing that says how limited this offer is. If you have an iPhone contract and a 3GS phone and you want to upgrade to an iPhone 4…
News
Dixons almost sold out of iPads
If you don’t have an Apple store in your town and you want to get an iPad from PC World then forget it. iPad wi-fi versions are available in slightly larger quantities than the 3G versions but we’re talking one or two more. If you want a 3G version you need to spend the full…
News
Zippo app hits 10 million downloads
The US developer of the virtual Zippo iPhone lighter app Skyrockit , recently announced that its app has passed the 10 million downloads milestone on the Apple iTunes app Store. The app was launched back in September 2008, and lets users flick on a virtual lighter flame, with branding from lighter firm Zippo. The app…
News
Mobile users view most between 7pm and midnight
Measurement firm Ground Truth’s first study of mobile media usage in the United States by time of day, found that in the month of April, 32 percent of daily page views occurred between 7pm and midnight, with the highest volume occurring at 9pm, local time. The figures from Ground Truth’s April census of 4.24 million…
Analysis, News
Mobile app revenues to exceed $30 billion by 2015
Analysts Juniper Research www.juniperresearch.com forecast that, the combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including “freemium” and subscription) and advertising, including apps on portals and dedicated app services like iTunes etc is expected to rise from just under $10 billion (£6.9 billion) in 2009 to $32 billion (£20.7 billion) in 2015.…
News
Getjar hits a billion downloaded apps
Less than 24 hours after Apple announced that their 100 million iPhone and iPod Touch “IOS” devices had collectively downloaded 5 billion apps, and created $1 billion dollars of revenue, app store GetJar announces their own set of records. GetJar (www.getjar.com), is now calling itself the world’s second largest app store, and has announced that…
News
UK iPad launch surpasses US launch
Web watchers, Quantcast, have published early figures for iPad use in the UK, and they show that the UK is taking to the iPad like a duck to water, people to tablets etc. As we can see, the response so far looks very strong. According to Quantcast if you compare the US response to the…
News
iPhone 4 goes to O2
O2 are to announce an upgrade deal for iPhone users who want to get hold of the latest iPhone 4.0. Just moments after Steve Jobs completed the announcement of the device we’ve all been calling “the device that the guy left in the bar”, and that we’ve all seen for the last month on Gizmodo…