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Why doesn't the Apple App Store give download figures? Would the truth be unA... - 0 views

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  • This is the third in our series of six app-related articles. See also: • It’s all about the design. Essential tips from user experience gurus • Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? • What is a mobile Web app? Here’s expert opinion from the W3C • The open market approach: Q&A with GetJar, the No1 independent app store • How museums bring collections to life with augmented reality
  • will an iPhone app deliver return on investment (ROI)
  • ll you can do are some crude calculations based on the three numbers that Apple releases
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  • extra cost of adding a second and third smartphone platform is 30-50 percent of the original investment.
  • Average revenue per paid-app: US $6,259.78.
  • normal for an app to cost US $50,000 to
  • don’t get picked by the Apple reviewers, you don’t get featured.
  • iPhone users have on average 37 apps on their phones
  • cross-promote your app for free
  • SMS/email opt-in lists,
  • media love writing about anything you do;
  • , mobiThinking is not alone in querying the economics of the App Store model: see Tomi Ahonen. And this honest first-hand app experience from Tom Hume, a design director at a London agency called IDEO, is fascinating.
  • What we don’t know is: was it was kept for a year, month, week or day, or did it go straight in the bin.
  • TWC proudly tells us that Weather.mobi gets 25 million unique users a month.
  • same visitor information for the app is confidential.
  • Great apps also have a habit of winning awards
Alex Street

The True Cost of Developing Your Mobile App | AppsMarketing Blog - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 01 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • etter to focus on the value of the service and the benefit to your business than to focus purely on the cos
  • good idea of the value that you should expect from an App Developmen
  • difficult to provide a price without knowing the specific details of the ap
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  • first factor in determining the cost of having an app developed
  • Data Driven App
  • Games
  • Device App
  • makes use of the hardware to provide its core functionality
  • Bespoke Functionality App
  • may include ‘data-driven‘ features
  • production of an app is not just about the functionality
  • functionality expected by the user, or an app that is not presented well,
  • Design and the functionality
  • Scale of the project
  • more graphic design work
  • number of device types
  • device types
  • different requirements between the individual devices, i.e. the iPhone 3gs and the iPhone 4
  • production of the separate graphics for each device will increase the costs.
  • Design costs, you should expect to pay between €350 for a small simple app, through to €3500+ for a very large, complex and Graphic centric app
  • additional device type, you should expect the costs to increase by 25%-50% for each additional device type
  • Development Costs
  • any factors will determine the Development Costs
  • Simple App – €1500 to €5000 Data Driven App – €5000 to €35000 Games – €7500 to €175000 Device App – €1500 to €175000 Bespoke Functionality App – €5000 to €175000
  • costs associated with the production of your app will be covered within the Design & Development costs
  • creating the app store account ($99 for Apple apps, $25 for Android apps),
  • scale of the project will have an impact on the costs
  • ome app developers will take the graphics and source code that they have developed for your app and resell it to another business, potentially to one of your competitor
  • guarantee of exclusivity for your app
  • Some app developers will keep all of the design and source code t
  • app developer is suggesting that you have to pay extra for the graphics and source code, walk away.
  • better app development businesses will automatically include the graphics and source code in the price you pay
  • focus on the value of the service and the benefit to your business,
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