An average US adult spends 3 hours and 15 minutes on their smartphone every day. This means that launching an app of your own is a great business opportunity. However, you need to decide whether you want to develop a native or a web app. The difference boils down to the fact that web apps run through a mobile browser and native apps are full-fledged programs. Each option has its pros and cons and can be successful under some circumstances. To make the right decision, you need to understand which solution will work the best for your targeted audience.Web App: Pros, Cons, and Considerations...

Facebook released 2012 Q4 financial report. Facebook total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012 is $1.585 billion, an increase of 40% over the same period last year, about 23% of the total revenue are from mobile advertising. Net profit is $64 million, down 79% over the same period last year.Now Facebook monthly active users reach 10.6 million, daily active users reach 618 million. The daily active users from mobile are more than the daily active users from desktop side the first time.In the entire 2012 fiscal year, Facebook's total revenue was $5.089 billion, a net profit of $538 million. Fa...

Facebook recently hired all employees from Pieceable, a web service provider which lets iOS app publishers deliver their apps to the browser and preview their apps in the browser. Facebook claimed that they didn't acquire Pieceable, they just hired their employees. Now Pieceable service is shut down. Currently there are around 800000 app demos on Pieceable, developers can try and show off their iPhone or iPad applications by putting their apps on Pieceable's web service. What Facebook did disappointed those venture capitals who support Pieceable because this is not an acquisition, Facebook onl...

Since now HTML5 has become a very hot topic. It can be used develop some highly functional and amazing applications on desktop and mobile devices. Also, there are many libraries which are using HTML5 to develop some native app like applications on iPhone and Android systems such as PhoneGap. Someone on Quora asked a question which many people are concerning about.: Will HTML5 ever overtake native mobile apps? It seems that the number of people who are agreeing with it equals to the number of people who disagreeing with it.Let's see the two most popular answers on Quora about this question.Aski...

Everyday when I surf the Internet, I find much news about new smartphones andAndroid, iOS apps. Also I can find many people use iPhones and othersmartphones with Android OS. Apparently we are now in Mobile era. People canfind tons of news that says how Mobile has changed our life, made our lifesimpler and how easy we can know the world with mobile technology. Yes, it'strue, now we only need to press a button, we can know what happens in USA whichis thousands kilometres away from us. We can easily get to know what new promotionsthere are from different retailers. All these are hard to believe d...