Posts tagged with 'apps'
Both MyDeco and Warehouse both recently released iPhone apps. I've been trying them out...
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by Graham Charlton
18 March 2010 10:18am
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While browsing through my RSS reader earlier, I came across an interesting post on PaidContent: a Facebook app called Second Porch raised $1m in funding from an angel fund.
I immediately scratched my head and asked myself: do most entrepreneurs behind individual Facebook apps like Second Porch really need to raise funding for their app businesses? It's a question that I think is increasingly important as more and more entrepreneurs launch their ideas on Facebook, not as standalone websites.
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by Patricio Robles
18 March 2010 09:02am
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Why is the iPhone so popular with developers? One word: money. The App Store is a developer's lottery ticket. All it takes is the right app at the right time and fortune can be yours.
The widely-publicized stories of developers who struck it rich with iPhone apps arguably did more for iPhone development in the early days than any developer-oriented sales pitch from Apple or Steve Jobs. It has been somewhat difficult, however, to find the same sort of stories about developers who struck it rich with Android apps.
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by Patricio Robles
04 March 2010 09:22am
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One trend I've noticed lately is that the few UK retailers that have launched mobile commerce services have opted to do this via mobile apps rather than a mobile website. Both Next and Net-A-Porter have the app, but not the mobile site.
Is there an argument for producing an app rather than a mobile site? Or should retailers be looking to reach as many customers as possible with a mobile site? Or should they have both?
I've listed some of the arguments for and against...
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by Graham Charlton
26 February 2010 10:30am
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Next has just launched an iPhone app with a large range of stock to browse through, and full mobile commerce functionality.
I've been trying out the new Next app to see how user friendly it is...
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by Graham Charlton
23 February 2010 13:21pm
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Restaurant chain Wagamama has launched an iPhone app for ordering from its restaurants, the first app of its kind in the UK.
In the US, Burger King and Pizza Hut have both managed to drive incremental sales through ordering apps, so perhaps a Wagamama app could work. I've been trying it out...
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by Graham Charlton
23 February 2010 09:37am
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Apple is, for lack of a better word, an unconventional company. And in
the past several days, it has apparently decided to take on the
conventional wisdom that 'sex sells'.
In a publicly unannounced and unexplained move, several days ago Apple
began a mass purge of the App Store. The target: iPhone apps that somebody, somewhere might find a sexual overtone in. From bikinis to ice skating tights to
mere silhouettes, Apple is reportedly done with any apps whose purpose
is to create "excitement or titillation" -- for both males and females alike.
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by Patricio Robles
22 February 2010 09:09am
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VoucherCloud is a new iPhone app which provides discount codes for mobile users, the first mobile app to offer such a service.
The app was developed by Bristol-based company Invitation Digital. I've been talking to Director Greg Le Tocq about the new app...
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by Graham Charlton
18 February 2010 12:19pm
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On the surface, it seems like an unfair fight -- 24 on one. But that's what it might take some of world's biggest mobile carriers if they hope to defeat the reigning king of mobile app distribution, Apple.
The carriers have banded together to create the 'Wholesale Applications
Community'. The goal: make it possible for developers to build
applications that work across handsets and carriers. The 24 carriers
participating in the Wholesale Applications Community have three
billion subscribers combined, and the initiative is also receiving
support from the GSMA, which is made up of handset manufacturers LG
Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
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by Patricio Robles
16 February 2010 09:10am
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Major US retailer Best Buy is one company that has been taking mobile commerce seriously, and the mobile site was among the examples we used in our recent Mobile E-commerce Best Practice Guide.
Best Buy also has a recently updated iPhone app, so I've been trying this out, and seeing how it compares to the mobile site...
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by Graham Charlton
15 February 2010 15:01pm
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