How much does it cost to develop an iPad App?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2011 in Blog, Digital Publishing & Tablets, UX

How much does it cost to develop an iPad App?

Like most developers, we often get asked how much it costs to build an app.  For many clients it is not apparent that this is a little like asking how much it costs to build a house or buy a car. It is a difficult question to answer, and often requires quite a bit of work to nail down requirements, choose development platforms that are suitable to the client’s requirements and decide on back-end integration strategies. In this post I hope to outline some of the challenges as well as offer some resources based on independent developer surveys and industry standard guides. High...

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Why is the tablet app market so popular right now?

Posted by on May 20, 2011 in Blog, Digital Publishing & Tablets, Must Read, UX

I was recently interviewed by Business News Daily on the popularity and trends in the Tablet app market, and one of the questions asked was why the tablet app industry is so popular right now. A Seismic Shift Of course there are too many dimensions to this questions, but I’d like to go into one facet briefly: The tablet based delivery channel matters because it represents not only a new technology meme, but seismic shift from current computing experiences and practices. It is the harbinger of more liberating ways of interaction with computers, information and entertainment. Pediction:...

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Our Latest App is now Live!

Posted by on Dec 29, 2010 in Digital Publishing & Tablets, Must Read

Our Latest App is now Live!

We are extremely pleased to share that “Embracing Change”, our most recent app, is now available in the iTunes app store. Deal with Disruptive Change *** Discover your Strengths *** Dream & Design your Best Future This app supports you in embracing change – personally and professionally – in your relationships at home and at work. Just about every change has high points and low points. This app helps you deal with change and disruptive forces, whether you chose them or not. You follow a world-acclaimed method and practice, (Appreciative Inquiry and the 4-D cycle:...

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New eMagStudio software eases publishing on iPhone and iPad

Posted by on Oct 2, 2010 in Digital Publishing & Tablets

Software vendor eMagCreator has chosen to focus on iPhone/iPad publishing and have already released a new mobile version of their online publishing platform eMagStudio, which is one of the first desktop software’s which publishes directly to Apples iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, using the newly developed HTML 5 based reader. The new release is the first of many initiatives towards publishing on Apples mobile devices. via prurgent.com I would anticipate that there will soon be several tools to publish to tablet devices that incorporate HTML5 based capabilities. My question is how...

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Two Biggest Tech Disappointments Of 2009

Posted by on Dec 9, 2009 in Gadget and Tech Toys, General Musings

A post on ReadWrite web today outlines the “Top 10 Failures of 2009“, and the top 2 are definitely my biggest disappointments also. Where are the Tablets? I was hugely excited about various tablet concepts to the point of swooning every time the rumor mill turned, and having been an early adapter of Boxee and streaming net content to your large home theater TV flat screen, I bought into some of the concepts of a flat Apple or Crunchpad tablet becoming the new  couch surfing, home media center, ueber iPhone, controller, e-reader, kindle killer gadget to own. I’m still...

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Why the Slingplayer for iPhone App was rejected by the App Store

Posted by on Apr 16, 2009 in Gadget and Tech Toys, General Musings

According to reports this morning, the much anticipated “Slingplayer for iPhone” app has been rejected from the app store, apparently at the request of ATT, who are concerned about “bandwidth issues”. However, I think this is a mis-direction, as I would point out that there is already currently a Windows Mobile version of Slingplayer that is fully functioning over ATT’s 3G as well as over Edge networks. Rather I think ATT is using it’s iPhone monopoly to position it’s own video service that will be launched later this year. I think the critical...

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Polymash Prediction: Monetization features of OS 3.0 will change the iPhone app landscape completely

Posted by on Mar 17, 2009 in Gadget and Tech Toys

I was following today’s iPhone OS3 announcement live event, and one thing in particular struck me: Most of the advancements are focused on the app developer community, and while I agree that these will enable this community to produce far better and innovative apps, one feature in particular I think will change the application landscape for the iPhone completely: the ability to have optional paid content and subscription models within an app. In general I am in favor of multiple business models for developers to monetize their apps, however I do see this eventually resulting in a...

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Can Twitter Survive What Is About to Happen to it? I think that is the wrong question…

Posted by on Mar 16, 2009 in Social Media Sifts, Twitter Resources

The explosive rise of Twitter in the last couple of months is giving rise to a couple of phenomena, and to some these trends are harbingers of doom: More than a few people are asking if Twitter can survive what is happening to it, in it’s current form. And the answer is surely that it can, at least from an infrastructure perspective. I would pose the question differently: How can Twitter continue to deliver value as a meaningmaking and sensemaking tool for its users? A couple of examples that illustrate what is happening: Tweepme, a ponzi-like scheme that would have you pay for...

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