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US Satellite Broadband Providers See Flat Subscriptions for 1st Time | SpaceNews.com - 0 views

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latinamerica echostar

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  • Kaul said EchoStar and Hughes are eyeing Latin America for a Jupiter 2 satellite, perhaps using an orbital slot recently
  • Brazil’s telecommunications regulator
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Netflix could beat cable TV in Latin America - Online Video News - 0 views

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latinamerica paytv netflix broadband

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  • Netflix could become the primary subscription video service that many Latin American consumers pay for.
  • Less than a quarter of residents pay for cable or satellite
  • Brazil and Argentina — broadband penetration is actually greater than pay TV adoption.
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  • C]ompetition from Pay TV providers (and TV Everywhere-like services) is weak if not non-existent in Latin America
  • average broadband speed in the region to be about 2 Mbps
  • good enough for Netflix’s “Good” streaming quality, which is set at about 700 kbps
  • issue of broadband caps, which cropped up in Netflix’s Canadian rollout a
  • Brazilian ISPs have caps as low as 10 GB of data, which represents about 30 hours of content
  • 15-20 movies a month.
  • Goldman Sachs believes it was able to get good terms for catalog content in a region where studios weren’t able to monetize those assets
  • only thing holding Netflix back is having a recognizable brand throughout.
  • many potential users in Latin America likely have no idea what Netflix is.
  • Goldman Sachs expects the adoption rate to be much slower,
  • time it takes to break even in Latin America to be about twice as long as the 12 months Netflix expects it to take its Canadian venture to break even.
Alex Street

The Cost of Building an iPad App | PadGadget - 0 views

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appdevelopment appcost ipad

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  • nice but simple app, the design work will likely take a designer about a week, which will cost you about $6,000. The server side will likely require a developer about 2 weeks of work, or about $12,000. Similarly, the app could be written in about 2 weeks as well, another $12,000. Add $5,000 for project management, hosting fees for a year, debugging, unforeseen delays, and your total budget is around $35,000
  • nice high end app, like a high-end game, numbers are usually much higher. Design will likely cost you $30,000 alone. Development will be in the $150,000+ range. Hosting fees and extras will cost another $30,000. At the end of the day, your app will likely cost you at least $200,000
  • Infrastructure: Unless your app does not require any interaction with external servers
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  • Design: Unless you have the proper skills to do the design yourself
  • Coding: Similarly, writing the app’s code will usually take several weeks to several months of work.
  • Testing:
  • Validation: When
Alex Street

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

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appdevelopment appcost

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,
Alex Street

eReader Forecast - 0 views

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ereaders bfi tablet

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  • total 6.6 million units i
  • 11 million units
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eReader Market Demand and Forecast | MetaFacts' findings - 0 views

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tablet bfi ereaders

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iPad to dominate tablet sales until 2015 as growth explodes, says Gartner | Technology ... - 0 views

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tablet bfi DCT operatingsystems

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  • Gartner tablet sales forecast 2010-2015
  • e: tablet data: Gartner (2013, 2014 inferrred from 2012, 2015 data); PC forecast: IDC
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iMedia Connection: - What drives the premium iPad experience? - 0 views

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bfi inapp apps ipad

shared by Alex Street on 25 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • 116 iPad users, 204 iPhone users, and 601 users of the Droid or any other smartphone
  • iPad users buy more apps in almost every ca
  • five times more likely to use subscription apps
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  • iPad users pay $30 for magazines (compared to $13 for both iPhone and other smartphone users) and $25 for newspapers (compared with $10 and $12, respectively
  • consumers are making commercial decisions is rapidly evolving into an experiential method. They are leading media-filled lives and are drawn to "meaningful, relevant, and beautiful content." It is from this new paradigm that the iPad is emerging
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Mobile Freemium Games: Gen Y Plays, but Gen X Pays - 0 views

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freemium pay propensitytopay apps flurry bfi

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  • Freemium game
  • 65% of all revenue generated
  • elative distributions of time and money spent by age group
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  • 18 – 24 account for the most minutes spent
  • top spending group is 25 – 34 years old
  • 9% of total dollars spen
  • ost dedicated users of these games in terms of time, the 18 – 24 year old
  • nly third in terms of money
  • heavy users of freemium games are younger, while spenders in freemium
  • via “the grind” takes time and patience
  • 24 – 35 year olds presumably have more disposal income
  • 24 – 54, this older group generates nearly four-fifths of all revenue in freemium games
  • isposable income and relative available time.
Alex Street

Younger audiences play more freemium games, but 25-34 year-olds pay for them | TUAW - T... - 0 views

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freemium pay propensitytopay

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  • used consumer spending data
  • r freemium games are primarily in the 25-34 age group
  • freemium title only really pulls in-app purchases from a small percentage
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  • most successful in-app purchase items are for convenience and time-saving
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