Category: Databits
Are Smaller Mobile Games More Successful?
Striking a balance between the size of your bundle and the type and number of assets your game makes use of is an art form. Push as much as you can in right up front and force the user to …Read
Everything You Need To Know About the New Apple TV App Store
Update: Apple’s Eddy Cue confirmed that there are more than 2,000 apps in the Apple TV App Store and that games are the leading category in an interview with BuzzFeed. The long awaited Apple TV App Store opened about a …Read
House of Cards Stacks the Deck for Monument Valley’s Success Across Major App Stores
This past weekend marked the return of Netflix’s popular original series, House of Cards for a third season. Having previously established the main character’s interest in video games, the newly appointed President turns to the popular app, Monument Valley to …Read
Did Super Bowl Ads Score App Store Success?
With an estimated 112 million viewers tuned in to the 49th Super Bowl on Sunday night, a lot of talk had nothing to do with the game or sport itself. Instead, there was a lot of hype over three different …Read
App Stores Growth Accelerates In 2014
Note: Our latest mobile app store report for 2016 is out. Check it out → 2014 was quite an eventful year in our industry. Apple finally gave in to the big screen but also teased us with the small screen …Read
Angry Birds Turns Five: What We Can Learn from the Franchise’s Success
Tomorrow, the Angry Birds franchise will be turning five, and to honor its long standing success, we took a look at the twists and turns the franchise took over the years as an educational adventure in App Store survival and triumph.Read
Are App Bundles Living Up To The Hype?
App Bundles have been one of the most anticipated and important new features for the App Store with the release of iOS 8. Considered to be a vital new way to drive revenue, many have been speculating about the tangible …Read
The Reviews Are In: iPhone Users Love Custom Keyboards!
We’ve been talking a lot about the new changes in iOS 8 and what they mean for developers and end users. In this post we continue the trend and look at custom keyboards. Now that custom keyboards are available for …Read
Are Free Speech and App Store Ratings Related?
Here at appFigures, we are constantly exchanging theories about what drives individuals to download an app, post a rating, or write a review. One recent idea intrigued us all: Are ratings from some countries inherently more positive (or critical) than …Read
School Calendar Changes App Rankings, As Apps Take the Classroom Mobile
Smartphone access among teens has increased substantially over the past years. According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, nearly 4 out of 10 teens now own a smartphone. With summer winding down …Read