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...

In his Beyond Mobile presentation at TL;DR Conference in San Francisco CA, Scott Jenson made the case for moving beyond mobile applications and illustrated what a future without apps could be. Here’s my notes from his talk:The history of mobile phones has been copying the desktop and then realizing it just doesn’t work right.Apps are a holdover from the desktop.There are a number of trends that highlight how we can move beyond apps on mobile.App Glut: are we going to have an app for every store, product, or Web site we use? It’s not sustainable. What happens when you have ...

Takeaway: Ryan Boudreaux looks at some of the latest reports on how users are spending their time on the web. Keeping an eye on trends is one way for web developers to stay current.Recent figures in Internet activity include several interesting trends, including:the number of smartphone-user adoption ratesCyber Monday sales figuresmobile banking app usagesocial networking on mobile social mediahours spent onlinesearch habitsTrends in worldwide Internet activity may or may not translate well into changes and updates to an organization’s web development and design plans. As a result, many...

This weekend I started work on my first full blown game for the iPhone. I’m not ready to share the details of what the game will be specifically as I’m sure these will change dramatically over the coming weeks. All I’m sure on is it will be a platform game built with Corona SDK.To get me started I’ve been downloading a bunch of games from the app store, jotting down some of the areas contributing to their addictiveness and success.Short levelsI do most of my game playing in short burst. This may be during a short train journey into town, or a few minutes while my di...

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...