Just ahead of WWDC, an odd attempt to get a better deal for iOS app developers. It's not clear how this would work, exactly, or if it's even real, but the App Developer Union manifesto raises a good point: app developers have no leverage. More at http://www.appdeveloperunion.com/
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Research firm Forrester has put out a new report exploring best practices for developers trying to get their apps noticed. Delete the scoop?
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Facebook and Amazon saw iOS's terms and decided to built competitive services. Delete the scoop?
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The mobile operating system market share numbers are in for Kantar Worldpanel's last quarter, and the numbers are shocking. 
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May 2, 4:54 AM
Here comes Microsoft. These are of course Consumer not Business figures! Delete the scoop?
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Returning to tablets, compared to the dominant players in the tablet OS market — iOS and Android — Microsoft's share is still very modest. Strategy Analytics dubs it a “niche” portion, noting that “very limited distribution, ... Delete the scoop?
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While the iOS app store has well over 800,000 active apps and Google Play sports more than 600,000, the Amazon app store has only about 75,000. Delete the scoop?
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Ubuntu Software Center sales numbers are not very good, but there is still hope.
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Exremely interesting article showing how incredibly difficult it is to sell "consumer" software on Linux. Figures are far from the appstore... Delete the scoop?
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Android and iOS users in the US spend an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes every day using apps on smartphones and tablets. 20 percent of that time (or 31 minutes) is spent on the mobile ... Delete the scoop?
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Claims that new "Blink" engine will allow faster innovation for all WebKit users.
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It really does look like a bad move for the open web... I hope we won't see compatibility issues between web browsers happen again! Delete the scoop?
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Shout “Windows 8” and you’re likely to hear “Vista” echoed back at you. For Microsoft, Windows 8 has received a Vista-like reception and it’s showing in tepid sales and an abysmal market share. Delete the scoop?
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Interesting data from comScore on iOS versus Android. Delete the scoop?
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AppGratis wasn't an anomaly. It was just the first to go. Delete the scoop?
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For nearly two decades, developers and CIOs have taken for granted the “simplicity” that a Windows-dominated world provided to software development. With one operating system capable of reaching th... Delete the scoop?
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We wanted to address a topic we re often asked about, but that is not very well understood in our industry. App discovery is a jungle but it does not mean every single service that labels itself “app discovery” operates by the same rules. Delete the scoop?
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Empowering users with familiar tools wouldn't be a sign of surrender, but rather a sign that Microsoft listens to its customers. Delete the scoop?
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Google is recruiting developers to build apps for its Internet-connected glasses, but is being unusually restrictive about the product as it slowly introduces the new technology to a wary public. Delete the scoop?
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May 4, 6:13 PM
Amazon started as an online bookseller but has since expanded into electronics, home goods, fashion, digital content and much more. With that, it has built a business model around being aggressive on prices for consumers, making up for it with economies of scale. In that sense, taking its Appstore (and probably its hardware) to as wide an audience as possible is an essential move for the company. Delete the scoop?
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Flurry now measures apps used on more than 1 billion smartphones and tablets each month. As connected devices reach critical mass, marketers are more seriously incorporating mobile into the marketing mix. Delete the scoop?
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The iOS app store will pass $20b annual runrate this year and yet app discovery is still terribly suboptimal. At first I thought it was merely product limitations that Apple would aggressively move
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It seems obvious to me that Apple will make this move... one day or another! Delete the scoop?
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Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps. Delete the scoop?
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iOS App Store accounts for nearly 75% of mobile app download revenue tuaw.com A new research report from Canalys took a look at the four leading mobile app stores -- Apple's App Store, Google Play, BlackBerrry World and the Windows Phone Store --... Delete the scoop?
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Samsung is the world's most successful manufacturer of Android devices, but the company also is working on its own mobile OS in collaboration with Intel. How long before the South Korean manufacturer has to choose between the two? 
colomban scully's comment,
April 15, 4:01 AM
it would certainly be good for samsung to have there own operating system and not depend on android , however , it is most likely that it would take time for customers to get used to the new operating system on samsung , and it wouold need to have acsess to all the apps available on android devices.
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April 15, 4:06 AM
I think us sung will be fine as long as they can develop an operating system which will be easy to adapt to for their users which probably means that it will have to be pretty similar to android
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By now you are probably wondering how much more this Jury guy can go on about elasticities and pricing and all the rest of these shenanigans. Well, this post will wrap things up on this topic. Delete the scoop?
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The Windows 8 app store reached a new milestone: With 50,000 apps in its store, it now has more than twice the number of apps it had just three months ago. Delete the scoop?
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The App Store can never be pure enough for Apple. All it wants is for iOS users to follow its featured titles and iAd adverts, and download those apps.
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Very sad move for App Gratis and very bad move from Apple :( Apple should not be able to discard its competitors so easily. Delete the scoop?
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