Other April 4, 2012

In January, the App Store generated $5.41 million per day

Distimo, together with CCS Insight, shared data on the daily earnings of the App Store and Google Play, and also introduced a new market monitoring service that collected this data.

Other April 3, 2012

Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy – review

The spring blockbuster, which we could not pass by in any way, is, of course, the Sky Gamblers arcade flight simulator: Air Supremacy. A kind of “Il-2: Stormtrooper” for iOS is insanely beautiful (within the framework of the platform), complex and, what is also important, promoted by Apple itself.

Other April 3, 2012

Apple is developing its own gamepad

Western journalists are sure that the Apple company is developing an original controller for its devices.

Other April 3, 2012

Super Meat Boy will appear on iOS

The authors of one of the bloodiest platformers announced that they will release a special version of the game on iOS and other mobile systems.

Other April 3, 2012

Prices are rising, but downloads are falling

The cost of attracting a user in February increased significantly, and the number of downloads decreased due to Apple’s active actions.

Other April 2, 2012

Temple Run continues to gain points (UPDATE)

During the day, the Imangi Studios game was downloaded by more than 2 million Android platform users.

Other April 2, 2012

Why does Google Play make less money than the App Store?

Analysts from Distimo shared interesting data revealing why Android is not such a profitable platform for developers as iOS.

Other April 2, 2012

Google Play is an outsider on micropayments

Google Play earns much less on in-app purchases than its competitors – the iTunes App Store and Amazon Appstore, according to experts from the Flurry analytical company.

Other March 30, 2012

Apple claims it is not going to abandon UDID

The Cupertinos explained their position on the identification codes: so far, no one is going to delete applications using UDID.

Other March 30, 2012

There are almost 1 million iPad owners in Russia

Yandex counted more than 700 thousand Russian users of the “apple” tablet. And this is only according to minimal estimates.

Other March 29, 2012

The richest publishers of 2011

App Annie has presented a list of 50 mobile publishers who earned the most money on iOS in 2011.

Other March 29, 2012

50 thousand downloads on Android – now fantastic

The AppsGeyser company claims: the chances of gaining several tens of thousands of downloads without ads in 6 months for a regular application on the Google platform are reduced to zero.

Other March 29, 2012

There are 100 million mobile players in the USA

About 100 million American users play on their smartphones, tablets and iPod touch devices, according to experts from Newzoo.

Other March 28, 2012

GamaK Flash Games Competition

HeyMoose Companies! and DigitalHR, with the support of the business incubator of the Higher School of Economics, organized a competition for flash game developers called GamaK.

Podcasts March 28, 2012

Virtual round table. Part 3

This time, at our virtual table, we are trying to figure out what, first of all, it will be necessary to focus on this year, in which market it will be possible to earn the most and whether it is worth waiting for drastic changes in the market from 2012.

Other March 28, 2012

Rovio bought Futuremark

The creators of angry birds recently took under their wing the gaming division of a company well known for its series of popular graphics accelerator tests.

Other March 28, 2012

21 trends in the mobile industry. Part II

The second part of the article written following the results of the GDC 2012 conference by John Jordan, editor of the site pocketgamer.biz , about the main trends of the mobile industry this year.

Other March 27, 2012

Apple went to extreme measures

Apple has begun to remove applications that use access to UDID, the unique identification number of each iPhone and iPad.

Other March 27, 2012

Gameloft is gaining licenses

A few days ago, a French publisher signed contracts with several film studios to develop mobile games based on the most anticipated May (and not only) blockbusters of this year.

Other March 26, 2012

Virtual Round Table – Part 1 – text version

A little over a week ago, we posted the first part of our audio project “Virtual Round Table”. It was dedicated to a topic that is burning for any developer – “How much money does it take to make a successful application?”. In that issue, experts talked about what to do with the application when development is over. And today we offer a text version of this issue.

All publications of the author

In January, the App Store generated $5.41 million per day

Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy – review

Apple is developing its own gamepad

Super Meat Boy will appear on iOS

Prices are rising, but downloads are falling

Temple Run continues to gain points (UPDATE)

Why does Google Play make less money than the App Store?

Google Play is an outsider on micropayments

Apple claims it is not going to abandon UDID

There are almost 1 million iPad owners in Russia

The richest publishers of 2011

50 thousand downloads on Android – now fantastic

There are 100 million mobile players in the USA

GamaK Flash Games Competition

Virtual round table. Part 3

Rovio bought Futuremark

21 trends in the mobile industry. Part II

Apple went to extreme measures

Gameloft is gaining licenses

Virtual Round Table – Part 1 – text version