Alexander Marktl

Daring Fireball

Netflix:

Today we’re excited to let you know that we’ve launched a fully redesigned experience for our free app on all Android tablets including the Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet. […]

This experience will be ready for the iPad in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. We listened to you, revamped our design, and hope you’ll enjoy it.

“(iPad Coming Soon)” is a phrase you don’t see often. Anyway, the ...

 louisgray.com

In the world of tech, you can make the news or you can break the news. I like to do both.

Never wanting to just play the role of armchair quarterback, I have over the last 12+ years actively played a direct or advisory role to dozens of startup companies, both consumer and enterprise. In the last 5+ years, I have shared with you many of my own experiences here on this blog, be it what I am...

Mobile Open Source

I was reading an interesting analysis today. It is a survey on smartphones, customer satisfaction and the like. The last part talks about iCloud and its effect on users. Let me copy it here for the link-clicking-averse:

The survey found that 29% of Apple’s existing company were “More Likely” to buy Apple products in the future because of iCloud, a service that was announced only a month ago and ...

iPhoneBlog.de

‘The Telegraph‘ berichtet, dass sich die Verhandlungen um ‘iTunes in the Cloud‘ (zumindest) für Großbritannien noch “in einem sehr frühen Stadium” befinden.

Ein Sprecher der dortigen Lizenzierungsgesellschaft gab zu Protokoll:

Tentative talks have begun between the major labels and Apple in the UK. However, all talks are at the really early stages and no one expects to see the cloud music...

iPhoneBlog.de

82-Prozent vom (jungen) US-Tablet-Markt verleibt sich Apples iPad ein. Soweit eine Nielsen-Umfrage aus dem vergangenen Monat.

Verwunderlich ist das nicht, wenn man sich die ersten Gehversuche von Motorola, Samsung und Co. anschaut. Noch verpackt keiner der bisherigen Konkurrenten seine IT-Komponenten in nur annähernd vergleichbar reizvoller Hardware – vom Preis ganz...

iPhoneBlog.de

DirektIfYouAsked

Auf “We Believe” folgt “If You Asked” – die neue iPad-Ad verzichtet erneut komplett auf die (sprachliche) Erwähnung des Produktnamens. Ein weißes iPad-2-Modell zeigt der 30-Sekunden-Spot auch nicht. Als Sprecher bezahlt Apple weiterhin Peter Coyote.

TechCrunch

Mobile application developer Outfit7, maker of the hugely popular Talking Friends series of apps, has announced that its iOS and Android apps have hit the 100 million downloads milestone, roughly 3 months after hitting the 60 million downloads milestone.

Notably, Outfit7 launched its first Talking Friend app less than ten months ago (July 2010).

The series of apps, which include breakout hits...

TechCrunch

Online forms are not sexy, but every Website that wants to collect information or payments from visitors needs them. Today, SurveyMonkey acquired online form maker WuFoo to its growing bevy of tools for $35 million in cash and stock. I’ve confirmed the price with a source.

What’s really great about this story is that WuFoo is another Y Combinator win. The startup launched way back in 2006

iPhone Development

You may have been hearing some rumors and jokes around Twitter concerning something called "Appsterdam". If you've been wondering what that's all about, wonder no longer, Mike Lee lays it all out for you. It's an interesting idea, and I must admit I'm intrigued and would love to go. For a handful of personal reasons, I simply can't expatriate to Amsterdam at this point in my life, but I am...

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

TechCrunch

Bad news for Tapjoy, Flurry, and numerous other mobile advertising platforms that cater to iOS developers: Apple is clamping down on incentivized downloads. In other words, it’s now much harder to buy yourself popularity on the App Store. Developers who submit applications with these offer walls are having their applications rejected, on the grounds that they are violating section 3.10 of the d...

GigaOM

Apple is apparently tweaking its App Store rankings to factor in more than pure download numbers, a welcome sign if true. It could be an attempt to mimic what Google’s done with the Android Market  which now appears to take into account daily and monthly engagement data, so this seems to be a case of Apple playing catch-up.

According to Inside Mobile Apps, several ad network and pay-per-install ...

Scobleizer

I love 955 Dreams. It’s great to see them get accolades and be featured in the press all over the place. Why did it take so long? Maybe the $10 price for their iPad app.

Today they are featured in Techcrunch and that makes me happy.

Of course you already know this company, I featured them back in January.

If you didn’t see my video back then, it’s worth watching this one. They...

iPhone Development

MartianCraft has a fair amount of Android work right now. Personally, I try to focus on the iOS work whenever possible, but we're a small company, so nobody gets to play the primadonna. As a result, I spend a good chunk of my time on Android projects and have to stay abreast of both the Android and iOS worlds from both a hardware and a software perspective.

Last week, I found myself grudgingly a...

TechCrunch

I know what you’re thinking – link bait title, right? Wrong. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post. Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I promise you can learn from him and this movie.  I’m also betting that in 10 years he’ll be a mainstream talent rather than a pre-teen girl...