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SlashData Team
Jul 21, 20144 min read
State of the Developer Nation: The App Economy Consolidates Before the Next Gold Rush
Our 7th Developer Economics survey broke all records again, reaching more than 10,000 app developers from 137 different countries. The...
SlashData Team
Feb 5, 20143 min read
Developer Economics: Ecosystem wars drawing to a close
Welcome to the brand new Developer Economics report! Now in its fourth year and 6th edition, the latest Developer Economics survey...
SlashData Team
Dec 30, 20131 min read
Top 5 VisionMobile articles for 2013
With 2013 drawing to a close, we’d like to present you with the top articles from our blog for this past year – and wish you a happy and...
SlashData Team
Dec 12, 20137 min read
How do developers prioritise platforms? iOS vs Android vs HTML5
How do developers perceive different platforms and how is their platform choice affected by the type of apps they developed or the way...
SlashData Team
Oct 28, 20132 min read
Learning From Blackberry's Decline
After Blackberry announced disastrous Q2 results, news broke that Fairfax’s offer to take the company private had hit funding snags as...
SlashData Team
Oct 23, 20133 min read
App trade: a global opportunity
As we launch our new Developer Economics survey [UPDATE: Survey now closed – results out Jan 2014], Senior Analyst Andreas Pappas...
SlashData Team
Oct 21, 20132 min read
Infographic – Developer Economics Q3 2013 – State of the Developer Nation
As we’re about to launch the latest Developer Economics survey [UPDATE: we’ve launched the new survey – you can take it here!], we’d like...
SlashData Team
Oct 14, 20133 min read
How to win in mobile without making your own OS
The battle for app ecosystems is over – iOS and Android have won. However, this is not the end of the war for mobile users....
SlashData Team
Jul 22, 20133 min read
Developer Economics: App market forecasts 2013-2016
The global app economy was worth $ 53Bn in 2012, and expected to rise to $ 143Bn in 2016. As part of our new Developer Economics: App...
SlashData Team
Jul 17, 20135 min read
[Report] Developer Economics Q3 2013 – State of the Developer Nation
We’re happy to announce the launch of our new Developer Economics report, based on the largest, most global developer survey (6,000+...
SlashData Team
Jun 17, 20133 min read
Profits are Life Blood
[Is profit share overrated as a measure of company viability? Guest author Jay Goldberg takes a contrasting viewpoint to our recent...
SlashData Team
May 27, 20134 min read
Developer Mindshare Q2 2013: Is HTML5 the 3rd horse in the race?
[We’ve just completed the largest developer survey to date and the results are starting to come in. Marketing Manager, Matos Kapetanakis,...
SlashData Team
May 21, 20138 min read
A Game of Ecosystems: Measuring ecosystem performance
[How do ecosystem economics shape the mobile competitive landscape? What are the key performance indicators and how should app ecosystem...
SlashData Team
Apr 30, 20131 min read
[Infographic] Developer Economics 2013: Dev tools are the foundation of the app economy
We’d like to present our latest infographic, based on the latest Developer Economics report – themed around developer tools. This...
SlashData Team
Apr 3, 20136 min read
Which apps make more money?
[How do app developer revenues vary by country, or platform? Does the number of platforms make a difference to app revenues? Which models...
SlashData Team
Jan 23, 201311 min read
Developer Economics 2013 – Key Insights
[We’ve just published Developer Economics 2013: the tools report. This report [vm_form_download link_text='(free download)’...
SlashData Team
Jan 15, 20137 min read
The new basis of competition and the superiority of ecosystem economics
Just before the end of 2012, in association with Ericsson, we published the Telco Innovation Toolbox paper. It introduces ten economics...
SlashData Team
Dec 27, 20121 min read
Top 10 VisionMobile articles for 2012
[This has been a great year for the VisionMobile blog, with tens of great articles, as well as some amazing infographics and reports. As...
SlashData Team
Oct 30, 20123 min read
Sneak preview: Developer Economics 2013
[With only one week left till the end of our Developer Economics 2013 survey, Andreas Pappas offers a sneak preview into some preliminary...
SlashData Team
Oct 21, 20121 min read
The Mobile Industry in Numbers
Presenting our latest infographic – The Mobile Industry in Numbers – the H1 2012 edition of the 100 Million Club, the watchlist of the...
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