App Spending Outperforming Downloads on App Store and Google Play Nate Swanner, October 31, 2018 3 min read Worldwide, app downloads are up... and so is spending. A new study from SensorTower shows people are still downloading...
Sketchy Subscription Apps Draw Apple’s Ire, Forcing Devs to Do Better Nate Swanner, October 24, 2018 3 min read As subscription apps become more popular, some developers and companies will treat this revenue model like a gold rush....
App Subscriptions Nearly Double in One Year. Are We in a Bubble? Nate Swanner, July 10, 2018 4 min read Subscriptions as a method for app monetization is nothing new, but we may have underestimated its popularity. In a...
Why Are Big Tech Companies Abandoning the Apple Watch? Nate Swanner, May 30, 2018 4 min read The Apple Watch (loaded with watchOS) represents the largest smartwatch platform available to tech pros, but an...
Consumer Spending Frames the New App Economy: Study Nate Swanner, January 18, 2018 4 min read According to new data from analytics firm Flurry, folks' smartphone use is changing the app economy...
‘Agenda’ May Change Your App Monetization Strategy Nate Swanner, January 16, 2018 5 min read App monetization affects everyone. Companies big and small try in earnest to entice users to pay, while those same...
Mobile App Bubble Expanding Worldwide Nate Swanner, October 30, 2017 5 min read App Annie says the bubble is expanding. Mobile development is perpetually in a bubble: every week sees a flood of...
Keys to Effective Designer-Developer Collaboration Leslie Stevens-Huffman, September 22, 2017 5 min read Writing clean, reusable code does not guarantee that an application or website will engage users in today’s...
New Project Uses A.I. to Help You Cook Smarter Nate Swanner, July 20, 2017 4 min read Pic2Recipe A.I. at work MIT’s CSAIL unit is tapping into artificial intelligence (A.I.) for something that might...
Swift Playgrounds Expands to Robots, Drones and IoT Nate Swanner, June 5, 2017 3 min read Swift Playgrounds Starting today, Swift Playgrounds version 1.5 will let you control third-party items such as...