Hybrid Domainer

App developers share a common problem with Domainers

By: RH

Too Much Supply

Many times we hear how apps will replace domains or bring the value of domains down. Its not like just having an app is enough and having a domain to help promote that app is more important than ever in my opinion.

Like an overabundance of .com registrations or an overabundance of new tlds on the way, there is an overabundance of apps being uploaded every month.

AppTerrier put out a piece showing just how much apps are a lot like domains from a standpoint of selling and making a living.

In a piece entitled, "Disparity of App Store Wealth and Activity" The piece shows that apps are being uploaded in big numbers monthly just the same way we might see domain registrations. The report shows that 6 out of 10 apps are never downloaded. That sounds familiar with how domainers look at certain extensions and believe many have never heard of the extension.

Apps need to start using a domain strategy and promote their apps the same way domainers promote their domains.  If you just want to upload to the App Store, then you need to have a big advertising budget.

App developers and domainers can learn a lot from one another to help them attain their goals.

Courtesy of App Terrier

Instagram from Zero to a Billion Dollars (Timeline)

By Ary Kenyach

Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, here is a look how they got from there to here.

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Courtesy Visual.ly

Download trends in Mobile Apps

A look at the current trends in mobile apps.

by infographicdesignteam.

Apps demand continues to grow

Mark Walsh from MediaPost.com did an article citing a recent Pew Research Center study on apps.

Taken from the article :

he surge in mobile app use goes well beyond “Angry Birds.” Nearly four in 10 (38%) adult U.S. cell phone owners downloaded an app in August, up from 22% in September 2009. Counting in phones that come with pre-loaded apps, half of us now have apps on our phones, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Among the 10% of Americans who own tablet computers, the proportion of app-downloaders rises to 75%, reflecting the heightened appeal of apps on the devices’ larger screens. About a third (34%) use apps both on mobile phones and tablets. But the study notes that having apps and using them are not the same thing.

Read the whole MediaPost article here