Your app has about 30 seconds to show it's highly usable; and your content has about 3 seconds to grasp the average user. Only a minority of persistent users would be trying it out further. Just as market conditions change (for example, one-time payments for apps are widely replaced by the freemium model), our behavior and expectations as mobile users change as well.

We become...

While we can occasionally read articles on tech blogs about ''how and why I dropped iOS in favor of Android'' (or vice versa), in many cases people tend to stick to the platform of their choice. As for software/startup owners, iOS is preferred over Android as the primary platform for development. As for software developers, you cannot tell for sure. Some people love the smoothness...

Mobile development, like any other sub-field of IT, has lots of terms, which may be still obscure to you. Here we tried to select a number of terms, add our explanations to make a fun and informative read for you. Check the list so that nothing is missed.

Accelerometer
An integrated part of a mobile device, which is used for motion sensing. It's done through...

It takes skills and certain talents to run successful projects, from the very beginning up to completion. That's what good IT project managers are for - taking different pieces of the puzzle and gather them together, so that each would be in its place. It's a hard job of motivating people and organizing processes; therefore good project managers are valuable personnel,...

The pre-iPhone smartphones might not have been that smart, but the idea of checking e-mail from a mobile phone has always been promising. Now we have powerful productivity tools in our pockets, countless services in the mobile ecosystem, and the whole world is just a touch away from us. These things seem like great conditions for doing business, and it's really so. The mobile...