Applications & Apps Business


More Apple App Developers Charge...While Android Developers Don't

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According to Royal Pingdom, their research shows only 30% of the apps in Apple's store are free, while 65% of the apps in the Android Market are free.

Why? Pingdom thinks maybe more Google developers are hobbyists who can't get their app in Apple's store because they can't easily get past Apple's gate keepers. Another reason: Google only supports paid apps in 13 countries.

They even suggest: It's so much easier to install pirated software on Android phones than it is Apple phones so that perhaps discourages sales.

Business philosphy? Google gives away Android. Apple does not give away anything.

Or just plain corporate religion: Don't do evil.

TV Apps Will Reach $1.9 Billion by 2015

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As we're coming up to IFA BERLIN, it's worth noting TV apps will soon be standard as revenues rocket from $10 million in 2010 to $1.9 billion by 2015.

According to a new report from GigaOM Pro, growth in revenue will come from a growing number of households that will have networked TVs. By 2015, 6 in 10 TVs shipped worldwide will have a network connection (Ethernet, Wi-Fi or both) and 70% of those will come with an embedded app platform and app store.

And that's before Apple announces a revamped Apple iTV strategy...

RIM Buys App Store Company

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Research In Motion makes another acquisition as it battles iPhone and Android for the high end smartphone market.

Cellmania, founded in 1999, does a bunch of mobile infrastructure stuff, such as App Store infrastructure, letting mobile operators control the home screens of their customers' phones, and a content distribution network.

Analysts say RIM's real prize is Dr. Ronjon Nag, Cellmania's cofounder and CEO– if he stays around.

Recent headlines regarding RIM's prospects against Apple and Google read, "RIM, the next Palm..."

Novell Launches SUSE Gallery, Linux App Store

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Novell launches an app store called SUSE Gallery,with SUSE Linux software appliances for specific business needs.

The gallery provides “a storefront for end users to access more than 415,000 appliances,” according to Novell.

SUSE Gallery arrives one year after Novell launched the SUSE Appliance Program to help ISVs develop turnkey apps for SUSE Linux.

SUSE Linux suffers from Lack of ISV support (most business-Linux ISVs focus first on Red Hat).

The SUSE Appliance Program has attracted 82,000 users and nearly 3 million downloads since launch.

Go SUSE Gallery

Google DIY App Creation Software Tool for Android Platform

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Google now offers a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ (DIY) app creation software tool for the Android platform.

App Inventor for Android encourages programmers, non-programmers, professionals and students to create mobile apps for Android-powered devices.

The tool enables DIY developers to drag code for different functions and rop them into a template. Consumers with no knowledge of Java (Android’s app programming language) could become first-time app creators.

Fortune's Seth Weintraub calculates if only 1% of Android phone buyers create an application, Android’s application store would grow by 1600 apps every day. That’s well over half a million additional apps created every year; more than five times the total number of apps available at present in Android Market.

Go App Inventor for Android