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Gartner’s Mobile App Store Forecast Predicts $26B in Sales, 102B Downloads in 2013

Gartner’s Mobile App Store Forecast Predicts $26B in Sales, 102B Downloads in 2013

By Louis Columbus on September 30, 2013

Gartner’s latest Mobile App Store Worldwide Forecast predicts annual downloads will increase 59.38% from 64 billion in 2012 to 102 billion in 2013.  Worldwide revenue is forecast to also increase 44.45%, from $18B in 2012 to $26B in 2013. Here are additional key take-aways from the Gartner Mobile App Store Forecast that was published this week: Free applications are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, Louis Columbus' blog, mobile app store, mobile app store worldwide forecast, mobile app worldwide forecast, mobile apps, mobile video, mobility | 1 Response

On-demand Market Maturity and the User Experience: Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft Show How to Get it Right

On-demand Market Maturity and the User Experience: Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft Show How to Get it Right

By Josh Greenbaum on September 21, 2011

The week before Labor Day was an on-demand trifecta, a perfect storm of theory and practice on what the brave new world of on-demand software and services can and will evolve to in the coming years. It was the week of Dreamforce and the maturation of Chatter, the week that Workday hosted a group of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Cloud Computing, iPad, microsoft, salesforce.com, workday

Jive seeks to up IT's game with social apps

Jive seeks to up IT’s game with social apps

By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 4, 2011

While app stores have become enormously popular with users, particularly on mobile devices, they are now moving to the enterprise. The new Jive Apps Market provides an interesting approach that combines apps with direct integration into the flow of a …

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, apps, Jive

Apple’s Crazy Ecosystem and the Prospects for an Amazon Pad

Apple’s Crazy Ecosystem and the Prospects for an Amazon Pad

By Bob Warfield on April 18, 2011

I read with interest Marco Arment’s speculation about an iPad competitor potentially being in the relatively near-term offing by Amazon: I’d bet on Amazon releasing a true tablet, competing more directly with the iPad than the Kindle currently does, in the possibly near future. While I don’t doubt Amazon could launch a tablet and very […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, App Store, apple, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, strategy | 1 Response

Re-intermediation — Same as the Old Boss?

Re-intermediation — Same as the Old Boss?

By Denis Pombriant on March 8, 2011

Won’t get fooled again? I am watching a trend emerge.  I don’t know if it has a name yet so I will offer this — re-intermediation.  Most of us have been around the technology world in general and the Internet specifically to understand and remember its opposite, disintermediation.  Re-intermediation is a reversal of disintermediation — […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, apple, CRM, Subscription billing

Is the App Store Hamstrung by Its Billing System?

Is the App Store Hamstrung by Its Billing System?

By Denis Pombriant on March 8, 2011

A subscription service provider’s offering has three parts — the actual service-product, an infrastructure for delivering it and, for lack of a better word, value-add.  A provider may deliver all three as a single service but that’s not necessary. A common form of subscription is a car lease in which a customer buys the use […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, apple, appstore, Aria, CRM, Subscription billing, Subscription business model, Zuora | 2 Responses

10 things iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple – Quick Analysis

10 things iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on February 9, 2011

If you’re going to compete against the might iPad, here’s 10 things you should do. Good luck storming the castle!

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Kindle, App Store, apple, differentiation, HP TouchPad, ideas, iOS, iPad, iPhone, marketing, mobile, Quick Analysis, tablet, The New Thing, webos, Windows Phone 7

Where’s the Amazon AWS App Store?

Where’s the Amazon AWS App Store?

By Bob Warfield on February 6, 2011

I was talking to the interesting folks over at DreamFactory the other day (courtesy of Phil Wainewright who introduced us, thanks Phil!), and we wound up on a fascinating topic of conversation. At a time when many companies are still not in the Cloud, DreamFactory is in 5 different clouds with as many as 8 different applications.  […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Web Services, App Store, aws, Cloud, Cloud Computing, SaaS, salesforce.com | 1 Response

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The Marginal Cost of Software

By Basab Pradhan on January 10, 2011

Fellow Enterprise Irregular, Bob Warfield calls me out on my claim that software has no marginal cost in my blog post App Stores Galore. I write about the economics of Information Products often and have used the term marginal costs several times over the years in connection with digital music, e-books and of course the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, Bob Warfield, Cloud Computing, debate, Information Products, marginal cost, rebuttal, SaaS, softwar cost, software as a service, software marginal cost, technology | 1 Response

Software Has Marginal Cost

Software Has Marginal Cost

By Bob Warfield on January 10, 2011

Every now and again I see the old chestnut trotted out that Software has no marginal cost.  It’s used for all sorts of reasons.  The gut feeling that it is true is probably at the heart of most people’s justification for why piracy is okay, for example, not that I’m saying most people think it’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, Cloud, Cloud Computing, debate, marginal cost, rebuttal, Revenue, SaaS, service, software as a service, software cost, software marginal cost, venture | 1 Response

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