Rise of the Mega SDK Vendors in Mobile
[A new SDK economy has sprung up to support the needs of the 500,000+ mobile developers and the app economy. Guest author Panos...
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Insights, research and trends on the global developer economy.
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Back to the Future: How Facebook is challenging Google at the eyeball game
[Facebook is competing for eyeballs on Google’s own turf: Android. Guest author Francisco Kattan explains why Facebook’s Home...
Profits are Life Blood
[Is profit share overrated as a measure of company viability? Guest author Jay Goldberg takes a contrasting viewpoint to our recent...
The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList
[An AngelList study about the top companies being referenced by startups in their one-line pitching. VisionMobile Sales Operation...
Apple & Samsung's "Profit Share" Trap
[Are the smartphone wars about profit share or market share? Guest author Sameer Singh argues that the case for profit is fundamentally...
Developer Mindshare Q2 2013: Is HTML5 the 3rd horse in the race?
[We’ve just completed the largest developer survey to date and the results are starting to come in. Marketing Manager, Matos Kapetanakis,...
A Game of Ecosystems: Measuring ecosystem performance
[How do ecosystem economics shape the mobile competitive landscape? What are the key performance indicators and how should app ecosystem...
VisionMobile at FIA2013 conference, Dublin
George Voulgaris, Business Partner, presents Developer Economics 2013 and Insights on Private Data on the Cloud at the FIA2013 conference...
The Mediatek Phenomenon: the new smartphone disruption
[The next smartphone disruption comes not from the power struggle between Apple, Google and Amazon, but from silicon. Guest author Jay...
[Infographic] Developer Economics 2013: Dev tools are the foundation of the app economy
We’d like to present our latest infographic, based on the latest Developer Economics report – themed around developer tools. This...
Connecting the next 5 billion users: Emerging markets and the need for new business models
[With so much excitement about smartphone growth, we often forget that the biggest opportunity still lies ahead, in connecting the next 5...
New Developer Economics survey launched
We’ve just launched our latest Developer Economics survey. If you’re a developer take the survey, have your say on top mobile platforms,...
