Smartphones are topping out with regard to speed
Techcrunch did a fun test where they placed all versions of the iPhone next to each other and ran a speed test. You can see the video here, the the main takeaway is: After the 4S, the speed differences...
View ArticleWhither tablets?
At the moment it seems everyone is talking about a blog post by Andreessen Horrozitz partner Zal Bilimoria titled Our love affair with the tablet is over. First, I love that he used the picture above...
View ArticleShould new companies build an app before a website?
As you can see from the chart above time spent accessing the web from mobile apps has now passed time spent accessing the web for PCs. Moreover, the trends are only going one way, which begs the...
View ArticleForget tablets, think big screens and small screens
The idea has been building for a while now that tablets are losing significance as a category of devices and last week Benedict Evans posted data that to my mind makes the case unequivocally. The main...
View ArticleThe Android vs iOS paradox facing startups
Benedict Evans wrote an interesting yesterday about Android fragmentation (tl:dr 75% of devices that hit the Play Store run Android 4.x meaning Google has reduced the impact of fragmentation,...
View ArticleThe next wave of mobile startups
Mary Meeker has just published her excellent annual roundup of Internet Trends. As always there’s lots of good stuff in there. My biggest takeaway is best explained by this slide: Across the whole...
View ArticleDesktop advertising in decline
Latest research out from eMarketer predicts that the US desktop advertising market will shrink by 1% this year. The other side of the coin is of course continued rapid growth in mobile, which is...
View ArticleApp store discovery a little less broken?
It’s a common refrain that the process by which apps are found or discovered is broken. Discovery and hence download volumes are driven more than anything by ‘app store placement’ and by being...
View ArticleMaking money from apps is HARD – some data
As you can see from the chart above only 3% of mobile app developers are making more than $100k per month/$1.2m per year. Assuming the same power law applies as monthly revenues scale further it’s a...
View ArticleTrend in mobile – towards big screen phones
Mobile analytics firm Flurry released some interesting data yesterday showing a clear trend towards bigger screen phones. They define phablets as devices with 5-7″ screens, and that includes devices...
View ArticleEcommerce discovery on mobile – no apps?
It’s been troubling me recently that at first glance the trend towards mobile and the trend within mobile towards apps mitigates against startup ecommerce companies. Amazon is one of the first apps I...
View Article41% of UK ecommerce now on mobile
I took this chart from Criteo’s recently published Mobile Commerce Report. It’s amazing to see how fast mobile is taking share from desktop and great to see the UK leading other western markets, as we...
View ArticleWill we persist with two mobile app ecosystems?
In the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store we currently have two vibrant mobile app ecosystems. Going back a few years the prevailing wisdom was that network effects would ultimately make this a...
View ArticleHalf of browsing and a third of purchases on mobile
This slide is from Benedict Evans’ presentation Mobile is eating the world. The subtitle reads “Smartphones and tablets taking half of browsing and a third of purchasing”. Pause to take that in for a...
View ArticleWill device and OS proliferation break the app economy?
Jerry Bowerman wrote an interesting article on Techcrunch yesterday arguing that device and OS proliferation is driving the cost of supporting apps up to unsustainable levels. The evidence cited is...
View ArticleBrowsers, bots and unlocking mobile e-commerce
As the world becomes increasingly mobile centric, we still don’t have a great solution for long tail e-commerce. Smartphones now work amazingly well for Amazon and categories where we buy regularly...
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