Did you know the free version of Angry Birds earns an estimated $1 million a month solely from ads? Did you know that 37% of iPhone owners game daily? Did you know that 81% of all downloads are free?
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The folks at Geekaphone have put a together a nice infographic showing just how big the mobile gaming industry is. A huge $33 billion today, and expected to grow, grow, and grow…
If you’re an app developer, having great skills and lots of ideas doesn’t let your very own project become reality without any efforts. App development costs time, and time is money. Of course, you can look for traditional investors and make them fund your idea. But wouldn’t it be smarter to give literally anyone (instead of selected investment professionals) the chance to invest in your app and participate in your app’s later revenues by that?
Actually that’s possible. The idea of crowdfunding projects has become more and more popular during the last few years, naming Kickstarter as one prominent example. appbackr has adapted this concept to the mobile app market, establishing a wholesale marketplace for apps which allows developers to raise money before the app hits the store as well as enables common people to make a profit when it does.
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The basic idea is pretty simple: as soon as a developer has published his app concept on the appbackr marketplace, anyone interested in supporting that app can become a “backr” by pre-buying wholesale copies of the app at a discounted price. While these wholesale earnings provide the developer with the money he needs to develop his app, the backrs profit since they’ll get the retail revenues of their purchased app copies as soon as those sell in the App Store.
In the end appbackr creates a win-win situation for everyone involved: developers don’t have to care about their app development’s funding anymore, and everybody else, not having developer skills and/or great app ideas, can participate in an app’s revenues by supporting the idea and pre-buying a convenient number of wholesale copies.
Article written by: Torsten Weindl. Torsten markets appbackr, a wholesale marketplace for apps which enables everyone to make money with apps by becoming a “backr”. Before appbackr Torsten’s been running his own affiliate business in Germany since 2003 and worked as an Online Sales & Content Manager for Amazon.de.
You’re probably reading this post as you sit in your office so try to picture your garage in your mind and think of the stuff you store there. If not the garage then the attic, or the crawl space, or wherever it is that you store extra things around the house. Now, think about the stuff you have that’s been sitting there for ages and whether or not its probably the wise move to just sell it off, make some extra cash, and let somebody else worry about it. Let’s face it, most of this stuff WAS shiny and new and ultra cool when you first purchased it, but that’s just not the case anymore.
Most people accumulate extra belongings simply because they don’t have the time to find uses for it and don’t have the time to sell it off either. Quite often also, when the brilliant idea to get rid of our unnecessary things we take the old school approach to selling it off via yard sale or by snapping a few photos and selling them on sites like eBay or Craigslist. Well – and please excuse me in advance for the elaborate set up – but there’s a unique new way to sell off or trade your old things, and almost everything else under the sun. And it comes in the form of an app called Selloby.
This new kid on the bloc was created by the appropriately named startup Selloby, who first developed their unique twitter inspired social trading/ selling & buying network online before transitioning it into the mobile arena. What makes this service so promising isn’t the fact that it works on the web, on your iPhone ( or iPod Touch, or iPad) and almost any Android device, it’s the fact that its unique structure – that uses easy menus, hashtags, and real-time posting & responding abilities, to make the whole process as easy and effortless as using a normal social network.
Offering quick and easy registration, support for any mobile device’s built-in camera and an “idea-to-post” creation time well under the 3 or 4 minute mark, Selloby is a person to person selling and trading network that’s built to support the speed and small attention span of the mobile generation. You and everyone else on Selloby can geo-tag themselves to show where they’re posting from too if the mood strikes you. If you’re still having trouble envisioning this app/trading network/ digital bazaar I’d like to refer you to the below equation, which explains Selloby in the most easily understandable terms:
Foursquare + Craigslist + Twitter = Selloby
Now, I invite you to hock your extra stuff, make some friends, and discover the wide world or selling and buying almost anything through Selloby. Enjoy (and you’re welcome in advance J )
Target is leading the way when it comes to reaching prospective customvers via mobile among retail giants. Currently they are testing an Instant Mobile Coupon in select stores. If the test proves positive, which I am sure it will, it will roll out across all Target stores.
Generally instant mobile coupons run for a limited amount of time such as 2-6 weeks. “While the promotions have a short life-span, these types of promotions will continue throughout the future”, a spokesperson for Target says.
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Need to back up and sync your Smartphone? Here is a list of available services and apps for preventing data loss.
Amazon Appstore for Android – great for Android owners. It has a clean interface, good search function and easy payments system are a plus.
Getjar - the world’s 2nd largest app store behind Apple’s. 75,000 plus apps and supporting 2,500 plus devices.
Cydia – The app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads. It offers thousands of applications unavailable through official Apple channels.
OpenAppMkt – The app store exclusively meant for HTML5 applications (aka Open Web applications)
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The majority of Mobile Developer Jobs may be in Toronto, but in the 2nd quarter of 2011, it may be easier to find a gig in Ottawa based on the number of job search results found on job board ca.indeed.com divided by the city population. Although there were only 55 mobile developer job search results in Ottawa versus 167 in Toronto, there were .064 jobs search results per 1,000 population in Ottawa compared to .035 in Toronto.
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Since a job opening on online job aggregator ca.indeed.com can be listed in more than one place and can remain online for a time after it is filled, this analysis does not reflect a precise outlook at where the Mobile Developer jobs are. Nevertheless, the results do present a strong case for which cities are the easiest and hardest for finding Android developer and iPhone developer jobs in Canada.
In Q2, 2011, what are the top 10 cities to find a mobile developer job in Canada?
Best cities to find mobile developer jobs in England
Looking at the major metropolitan areas in England, here are the top 5 places to find a mobile developer job:
No. 5: Belfast – 11th largest city. 0.137 ‘Mobile Developer’ job postings per 1,000 population
No. 4: Edinburgh – 13th largest city. 0.184 ‘Mobile Developer’ job postings per 1,000 population
No. 3: Bristol – 10th largest city. 0.223 ‘Mobile Developer’ job postings per 1,000 population
No. 2: Cardiff – 22nd largest city. 0.290 ‘Mobile Developer’ job postings per 1,000 population
No. 1: London – 1st largest city. 0.330 ‘Mobile Developer’ job postings per 1,000 population
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Since a job opening on online job aggregator Indeed.co.uk can be listed in more than one place and can remain online for a time after it is filled, this analysis does not reflect a precise outlook at where the Mobile Developer jobs are. Nevertheless, the results do present a strong case for which cities are the easiest and hardest for finding Android developer and iPhone developer jobs in England.
