News of the day (02/26/2014)

Market

App Annie, together with IDC, has published a traditional quarterly report on the mobile and portable games market.

http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-idc-portable-gaming-report-2013-review/App Annie has published game tops for January 2014.

Flappy Bird was ahead of everyone in terms of downloads.

http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-games-january-2014/App Annie (yes, three software publications in a day) presented the tops of non-gaming applications for the past month. 

http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-apps-january-2014/Industry

A lot of material about independent developers and specifically about Rami Ismail from Vlambeer studio.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/211679/A_bird_A_plane_Nah_its_just_Vlambeers_Rami_Ismail.phpMarketing

0.15% of mobile gamers are responsible for 50% of IAP in free-2-play.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/26/only-0-15-of-mobile-gamers-account-for-50-percent-of-all-in-game-revenue-exclusive/51% of referrals from Facebook come from the social network’s mobile app.

Desktops – your century has come to an end.

http://mashable.com/2014/02/24/facebook-mobile-traffic/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-linkInteresting material has appeared on PocketGamer about how F2P games with a “seven-step” internal payment system are successfully monetized.

About what kind of system it is – in the material.

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Monetizer/feature.asp?c=57703Platforms

Mark Dillon from Jolla, a former Nokia engineer and now the father of Jolla, talks about his mobile platform.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/jolla-breaking-the-smartphone-mold/?ncid=rss_truncatedDevices 

Women prefer Apple smartphones, and men prefer Samsung, according to representatives of KS Mobile, who recently conducted a survey of American mobile device users. 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57619501-71/women-prefer-apple-gentlemen-prefer-samsung