SlashData Team
Google has the leading developer program, but Amazon is catching up
Developers. Decision-makers. Kingmakers? For several years now, at SlashData we have been helping our clients – some of the biggest names...
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SlashData Team
Sep 20, 201919 min read
Episode 2 | Under the Hood of Developer Marketing | Developer Events with Katherine Miller
Listen to the audio episode. [Intro] Hello and welcome to “Under the Hood of Developer Marketing”, a podcast from SlashData. This is a...
SlashData Team
Jul 31, 20172 min read
Unity leads the way in developer satisfaction
As software continues to eat the world (to paraphrase Marc Andreessen), software developers fulfill an ever more critical role in the...
SlashData Team
Jun 16, 20164 min read
Google’s Instant Apps is the power grab that ActiveX couldn’t make
At this year’s Google I/O conference the search giant announced Instant Apps – Android applications dynamically downloaded, installed,...
SlashData Team
Sep 10, 20144 min read
The 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet.
[If Apple wants to create a new, large product category out of smart watches, they need to create mass-market demand for their new...
SlashData Team
Jul 9, 20148 min read
The trillion dollar choice for car makers: control or cooperate?
[Will the car become little more than a smartphone accessory on wheels? This question is highly relevant after the recent CarPlay and...
SlashData Team
Jun 26, 20145 min read
Who will be the iOS and Android of IoT?
[Put together, the announcements at Google I/O and from Apple, Samsung, Nest, Quirky and others in the past weeks paint a crystal clear...
SlashData Team
Apr 14, 20143 min read
From 4 to 4000 apps: disruption deja-vu in the car industry?
[What if cars were like mobile phones? There are some eerie similarities between the approaches of car makers in 2014, and operators and...
SlashData Team
Jan 30, 20143 min read
No, Google is not going 'horizontal' by selling Motorola
Another excellent move by Google: Offload Motorola Mobile Devices to Lenovo, while keeping the patents to themselves. Skimming through...
SlashData Team
Nov 19, 20135 min read
The Naked Android
It had become painfully clear to Android’s executives: they had officially lost control. Something had to be done. There was only one...
SlashData Team
Aug 5, 20136 min read
The evolution of handset business models: From source of profits to distribution channel
The evolution of the PC and mobile handset industry have been mirror images of each other, as both saw two distinct disruptions: a new...
SlashData Team
Mar 21, 20139 min read
Dr. Google and Mr. Android
[Google announced changes to Android management last week. With around 500 million current users now, the mobile operating systems seems...
SlashData Team
Dec 5, 20127 min read
The Apple and Samsung Profit Recipe
[Apple and Samsung are sucking the oxygen out of the room. What’s the recipe of their profits and why are all the other OEMs struggling?...
SlashData Team
Sep 10, 20124 min read
The Kindelization of Tablets – Part 1
[Did you think that the Kindle Fire and the iPad are in direct competition? Think again! VisionMobile Product Manager, Stijn Schuermans,...
SlashData Team
Jun 8, 20123 min read
Beyond Siri: Breaking down the Virtual Assistant market
[Helped by Apple’s successful launch of its Siri technology in 2011, voice-activated mobile virtual assistants (VAs) have crossed the...
SlashData Team
Nov 21, 20115 min read
Flatten, Expand, Mine: The three pillars of Google's strategy
[Google’s strategy is all about ads, not selling services. Business Analyst Stijn Schuermans examines Google’s three-pronged strategy for...
SlashData Team
Nov 2, 20115 min read
The elusive long-tail of mobile shipments
[The era of smartphones is upon us, as penetration increases from 11% in 2008 to over 25% in 2011. But what of the remaining three...
SlashData Team
Sep 29, 20114 min read
Discovery kills distribution: why the web needs a new leader
[Apple and Google have locked app discovery and distribution within their app stores. VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou explains how...
SlashData Team
Oct 31, 20105 min read
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
[The UI of Android mobile devices is at the epicenter of a conflict between Google and the OEM struggle for differentiation. Guest author...
SlashData Team
Oct 24, 20105 min read
The Tortoise and the Hare: The tale of Android evolution
[Android is moving too fast with software releases – too fast for the smartphone ecosystem to follow. At the same time, Android is moving...
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