Category Archives: Statistics

OpenUDID reaching critical mass adoption

By Yann Lechelle | Published: April 25, 2012

OpenUDID adoption has accelerated in the past few weeks and seems to have reached a sort of critical mass. In fact, a study by Fiksu shows OpenUDID as the most widely adopted “universal” alternatives (i.e. one that does not presupposed prior agreement between parties). The picture featured on the OpenUDID GitHub (below) shows a variety of [...]

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With UDID nearing its demise, leading industry players turn to OpenUDID

By Yann Lechelle | Published: February 21, 2012

With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple implicitly indicated that it will soon remove the ability for developers to access the unique device identifier, also known as UDID. While not the most important API in the entire iOS SDK, many in the app ecosystem have grown dependent on this UDID, for legitimate aggregate measurement needs, not [...]

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Is App Discovery broken? you bet it is [hard fact infographic]

By ouriel | Published: February 15, 2012

All app developers know it: it is hard to get discovered. But it will get worse before it gets better. Why? because there is more and more apps and because the native discovery mechanism built in the App Store are limited. Rankings - regarded as the most popular discovery mechanism - are limited and gamed: [...]

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Black Friday: the App Store on sales too - facts and analysis

By ouriel | Published: November 27, 2011

Well, well! Black Friday has reached even the app store. After all, the app store is a store like any other stores. But it is not easy to realize how intense is the “black friday”, because there is no “Special Sales” section to discover those “deals” in the App store. But those of you who [...]

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1 million apps! (iOS + Android)

By ouriel | Published: September 16, 2011

There you go. We just hit the a significant milestone. If you take all the apps ever published developed on iOS and Android we just reached today 1 million mobile apps combined, or at least, that’s what our appGenome™ is telling us.   Now careful: only 800 000 from the 1 million apps are available [...]

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Appsfire introduces the open source OpenUDID initiative

By Yann Lechelle | Published: September 1, 2011

After Apple’s apparent decision to discontinue use of the Unique Device IDentifier (UDID) in iOS5, a large segment of the iOS developer community has been searching for an alternative solution. To serve the community in a way that is both accessible and non-proprietary, Appsfire is introducing the open-source OpenUDID initiative http://OpenUDID.com thereby inviting all stakeholders to this [...]

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