November, 2009

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Goes Mobile

Monday, November 30th, 2009

As consumer head out to the stores or just grab a seat on their couch to watch football some good data starting to come back demonstrating that mobile is becoming a discovery and transactional platform:

  • TheFind.com daily queries from a mobile device increased from 5,000 to 200,000 [Source WSJ]
  • PayPal mobile payments increased 650% y/y since Nov. 16th PayPal Mobile has done 500,000 transactions [Source WSJ]

As more data becomes available will add it above.

iPhone Camera: The App Store’s Most Overused Icon

Monday, November 30th, 2009

If your developing an App that extends/enhances the iPhone camera function do not use the camera icon.  It is generic and overused. Given the problems with marketing within the App Store the last thing you want to be is just another camera icon in a list of Apps: