Tag Archives: Apps

App Score November Report – What happened in the App Quality world in November?

By Maxence | Published: December 26, 2012

What happened in the App Store in November? note: the december report will be published soon too… Interestingly, many Rovio apps left the Top 25 in November: Angry Birds Free, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio Free for iPhone Angry Birds HD Free, Angry Birds Rio HD Free, Angry Birds Seasons HD Free, Angry Birds Seasons HD, Angry [...]

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2012: A Year in App Store (Infographic)

By Ouriel | Published: December 17, 2012

So much has happened in 2012 in the App Store. Tons of new apps, a new iTunes Store design on iOS6 and the Mac. We thought now would be a good time to get some perspective and look back at this very healthy and very busy app economy. Before you dive into our insanely amazing [...]

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Appsfire at the i7summit, Chantilly, France, this October 10-12.

By Sofia | Published: October 8, 2012

  Yann Lechelle, co-founder of Appsfire, will be discussing the “Wild New World of Apps” at the i7 Summit in Chantilly, France, this October 10-12.   i7 Summit is a global conference celebrating technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and society. Yann will be among 350 participants representing hundreds of established and up-and-coming companies all sharing the same [...]

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Is letting answering to App store user reviews a good thing for developers? No

By Ouriel | Published: June 22, 2012

So Google is now letting (some) Developers answer to users review. Most think this is a good idea and even call Apple to do the same thing. But this is not the right problem to solve. The problem is not the review system being frozen (and gameable). The problem is the lack of discipline of [...]

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Straight from the Labs: Introducing Appstein to Help You Download More Intelligently

By Ouriel | Published: June 21, 2012

What you see in our major product lines – our mobile apps, App Booster - is just the tip of the iceberg. Below the surface there’s a lot of data and intelligence about apps, and we’ll often leverage this  to come up with interesting lab experiments. Sometimes these experiments remain internal, but often we share with [...]

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Facebook app center: what’s not being said and asked

By Ouriel | Published: June 8, 2012

Yes. We heard about Facebook app center. We read the news. But a lot of critical information and questions have been ignored. So we’re going to ask and lay out a few points here:   Facebook app center is NOT an app store: an app store means hosting apps, enabling delivery/download and transaction. Facebook App [...]

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Introducing the Appsfire App Score, the ultimate quality score for mobile apps

By Ouriel | Published: May 16, 2012
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The Short Version Appsfire is introducing today a powerful and innovative signal to assess whether an app is worth downloading. App Score is a dynamic score which processes dozens of parameters several times a day across all the apps in the iOS App Store. The App Score for a particular app goes beyond the current ratings, rankings [...]

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Angry birds lands from Space. On the unfair competitive advantage of Blockbuster

By Ouriel | Published: March 22, 2012

Angry Birds space has just been released [iPhone, iPad, Android] The title is already a top paid app in many countries just a few hours after launch and will probably steal the #1 Top paid spot to Draw Something in the next hours Precisely it is #1 global paid app in France and Germany, #2 [...]

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The perfect 5-star app?

By Yann Lechelle | Published: February 9, 2012

Making great apps is so hard. We’re never sure we manage to do it right. But we strive to. And today, it is with great amazement that we discover what our effort has led to… We try to stay humble and we iterate a lot, we incorporate user feedback, we look at stats, we iterate [...]

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Inter-app communication and the future of app (re)discovery

By Yann Lechelle | Published: January 23, 2012

  This post is fairly technical in nature, but also fairly accessible. Inter-app communication is still in its infancy. Indeed, as powerful software publishers would have it, each app or each suite of apps would attempt to lock users into a unique file format to achieve a sort of monopole. This is clearly what Microsoft [...]

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