iOS 4.3.3 is in the works and should fix the controversial location tracking bug that recently surfaced and has been in the news quite a bit. Boy Genius Reports the following issues will be fixed: The update will no longer back up the location database to iTunes. The size of the location database will be [...]
White iPhone has different innards than its black counterpart
The first tear down reports for the white iPhone 4 are coming in and it seems as though there are a few differences internally. The differences include a modified lens and proximity sensor. According to the report, which drew its information from various Twitter posts, the sensor remains the same, but the “magnitude of the incident [...]
Giveaway: Win a set of icons from Mobile App Icons and Mobile Orchard
We have a very cool give away today. The guys over at Mobile App Icons are offering 10 lucky Mobile Orchard readers a pack of their icons. These are must haves for any app developer, check them out: How To Win: 1. Follow @mobileappicons on Twitter. 2. Leave a comment on this post telling us why [...]
The white iPhone is here, iOS 5.0 in testing and more in this week’s mobile news
The white iPhone has finally been released. Is it really that big of deal? Apple has started internal testing of iOS 5.0 with third party apps. Is demand slowing for the CDMA iPhone? Apple possibly creating a fitness training and sales iPhone app. Steve Jobs and gang defend the collection of location information in an [...]
Calculating lifetime value of freemium gamers: calculating retention rates
Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great idea [...]
Android App Development:Building Android Content Providers
In this tutorial I will cover building Android content providers. Content providers are the way that Android applications can share info between each other. an application can ask for info from another application using content providers. In this post we’re going to create a content provider to access data from our previous Employees simple application [...]
AT&T activates more iPhones, Apple awarded patents, and more in this week’s mobile news
Apple reaches 37.9 million users in the Unithed States, 59% more than Android. AT&T activating more phones than Verizon. United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple patents for the iPhone 4. iOS 4 keeps a log of your location and stores it in a hidden file on your iPhone or iPad. Reuters says [...]
Apple & Samsung – There’s Much the same between U and I
@BenHarvell is a freelance writer and former editor of iCreate magazine. He writes for a wide range of international technology magazines and websites including Macworld, MacFormat and MacLife. He’s on Twitter,blogs at www.benharvell.com and is currently enjoying the latest social network, Tout. So the gloves are off and two former bedfellows (at least in terms of component sales), [...]
Android App Development: Android Content Providers
In the last post we created a sqlite database android application. We saw that the database file is stored in the file system directories of that application meaning that the database cannot be accessed from another application. You can apply the same thing on any resources within your application (Files, images, videos, …). But there [...]
Calculating lifetime value of freemium gamers: finding the revenue per daily active user (RPDAU)
Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great idea [...]
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