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Alex Street

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

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  • 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,
Alex Street

Sony Qriocity service takes on Apple iTunes with streaming music and video | Technology... - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Sony has embarked on an ambitious challenge to Apple's iTunes,
  • based around the PlayStation 3
  • movies and songs
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  • web-enabled Sony devices, including its TVs, laptops and digital music players
  • Amazon also thought to be aggressively planning a web-based subscription service
  • online TV-on-demand market is about to expand dramatically.
  • Fujio Nishida, Sony's president for Europe
  • major expansion of its Qriocity
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocity
  • Music streaming will be added to Qriocity by the end of this year.
  • pricing.
  • Initially the service will just work on new network-enabled Bravia TVs, Sony Vaios and the PS3
  • Restricting the service to Sony products may damage take-up
  • open it up over time.
  • 54 million registered PS3s in use worldwide
  • move comes three years after Sony decided to abandon an earlier music streaming site, Connect Music
  • sers were restricted to using Sony hardware and software to listen
Alex Street

Google TV to launch this year | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • global TV advertising market
  • oogle TV service,
  • turised version of his Apple TV
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  • full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers
  • Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies:
  • HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitec
  • small apps
  • Adobe's Flash
  • t how easy it will be to integrate content
  • QWERTY keyboards" b
  • t a distance, with one hand, in the dark.
Alex Street

Mobile Sales Fall While Smartphone Sales Rise, says Informa | - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • How will device vendors differentiate themselves? What is User Experience? What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software? How to succeed in an Open Source world How to make money with Open Source The challenges and risks of Open Source What are the major trends in mobile handset OS? Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013? What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean? What is the future for proprietary OS? What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
  • n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.
  • Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.
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  • Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
  • open source components and approaches
Alex Street

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shared by Alex Street on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • combination of the latest Slingbox™ technology and carrier-class hosting solution
  • high quality cable television
  • We will sign you up for your own cable TV account and install a real cable TV box in our facility for you. We also install your very own Slingbox video encoding hardware so you can access your TV online
Alex Street

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

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  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
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  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Alex Street

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Alex Street

Wal-Mart Adds Its Clout to Movie Streaming - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 09 Feb 11 - Cached
  • sed $60 million in capital, was over $100 million.
  • Movie stores like Vudu’s also compete directly with the video-on-demand services of the cable companies,
  • They are making a bet on connected devices.”
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  • Wal-Mart has so far lacked a way to deliver movies digitally to people’s homes
  • Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices
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