We are happy to announce that Distimo has been selected as a finalist for the Business Intelligence category in the 2010 Meffys!
The Meffys are the yearly Mobile Entertainment Awards, presented by the MEF (Mobile Entertainment Forum). The Meffys are known as the mobile industry’s benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation. The finalists were selected by a jury of 45 journalists and analysts, and winners will be announced during the Meffys Gala Dinner on June 21st at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Convent Garden.
Other finalists in our category are:
Carrier IQ for ‘Insight to Mobile User Experience’
comScore, GSMA and UK Operators for ‘Launch of GSMA/comScore Mobile Media Metrics’
Informate Mobile Intelligence for ‘Metering the Third Screen’
Motally for‘Motally’
We are looking forward to this event and hope to see you there!
Today, Samsung has officially launched its first Bada phone: the Wave. The Samsung Wave has been launched in Europe first, and will be available in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America later.
While launching the Wave, Samsung’s app store called Samsung Apps will become available in over eighty countries world wide and now also offers Bada applications, as expected. Before, Samsung Apps only offered applications for Samsung phones based on Windows Mobile and Symbian. Citizens of the countries where Samsung Apps is available, can access Samsung Apps using Samsung’s desktop phone management tool.
The Samsung Wave is Samsung’s first phone based on its open Bada smartphone platform. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone and has 720p high-def video capabilities. The web browser is based on WebKit and supports Adobe Flash. Developers interested in developing applications for the Bada platform can download the Bada beta SDK here.
On June 17 the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is being held in Barcelona. This is a one-day event exploring the future of mobile development and innovation. The conference is tailored to mobile developers who want to discover the latest tools and trends in mobile technology (DevTrack) and business (BizTrack).
We will give a presentation during the business track, going into the recent developments in the mobile app store market. See the full list of speakers here. This is a very special event for us, since we launched at Mobile 2.0 exactly one year ago as one of the Launchpad companies.
If you are interested in attending, you can get tickets here, with a discount for dotopen members. We hope to see you there! If you would like to meetup, please send us a note.
Yesterday, Google’s I/O conference was being held in San Francisco. During the developer conference, Google made several new product announcements. Here’s a short overview of the most important news regarding Google’s app store strategy.
Android Market gets Music The Google Android Market will be getting a new section in its content catalogue: Music. It is not yet clear when this will be introduced in the Android Market, but consumers will be able to purchase music that get’s automatically synced to their phones:
You go to the Market on the web, find a song you like, click the download button, and just like with apps, the song starts to download on your Android devices. So it’s iTunes, over the web, with auto-syncing. No word on who the partners are for this, what the prices will be, etc. Undoubtedly, we’ll hear more about that soon. (via TechCrunch)
Web based Android Market During it’s first year, the web based access to the Android Market was very limited. Initially, Google was only displaying a set of featured apps, with no way to download and purchase content from the web storefront. Recently, a new web based Android Market was launched, improving Android app discovery from the PC. Now, following the Music announcement, Google also said that Music will be downloadable from a web storefront of the Android Market. It is very likely that this web storefront will not only contain Music, but also the current Application and Games categories. No details on the launch date yet. See a screenshot of the new Android Market in this I/O presentation sheet:
Google TV One of the biggest announcements: Google is launching Google TV, “a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.” See the introduction below:
Google TV will be running on Android, and Android applications will run on it. Google plans to extend the Android Market so that you can install third party apps on a Google TV setup just as easily as you can install them on a smartphone. During the keynote today, a Google rep said that any app that doesn’t specifically require phone functionality should work on Google TV (via liliputing).
Chrome Web Store Next to all the Android news, Google also announced the Chrome Web Store. This will be an application store for Web apps that are built with standard web tools. It will be available later in 2010.Not many details are available yet, although Google confirmed that developers that sell content in the Chroms Web Store will get the common 70% revenue share. We added the Chrome Web Store to appstores.info.
For developers, Distimo offers a free analytics tool, Distimo Monitor, to monitor their own and competitive applications across all app stores, without any adjustments needed to their application’s code.
We have updated this tool to enable our users to track their own and competitive rankings in the Top Overall and Top Games categories in the Apple App Store for iPhone, until rank 300. While most users are only able to see the Top 50 or Top 100 depending on the client they use, these rankings provide great insight in how your application is performing in the market.
On Monday June 7, the 16th edition of Mobile Monday Amsterdam will be held. The theme for this event is “The Mobile Distribution Game“. We are glad that Distimo is invited to speak during this event to talk about the current state of play of the app store market.
More info on the theme from Mobile Monday Amsterdam:
Why the Mobile Distribution Game?
Simple: The mobile space is very fragmented. Since Microsoft released its mobile OS to compete with the Palm OS 10 years ago mobile developers have strugled to support multiple mobile platforms, each with a relatively small user base and a large developer learning curve. Because of this mobile content distribution is a hard game to enter. We’ve got some of the best players in the game sharing their knowledge at our next event.
Why the Mobile Distribution Game?
Simple: The mobile space is very fragmented. Since Microsoft released its mobile OS to compete with the Palm OS 10 years ago mobile developers have strugled to support multiple mobile platforms, each with a relatively small user base and a large developer learning curve. Because of this mobile content distribution is a hard game to enter. We’ve got some of the best players in the game sharing their knowledge at our next event.
Other speakers are:
Bill Scott – SVP Business Development at GetJar
Om Malik – Founder of GigaOM.com, Venture Partner at True Ventures
Salim Ismail – Director Singularity University, previously VP at Yahoo! Brickhouse
Roeland Stekelenburg – Head of New Media at NOS
When, where & how?
Date: Monday, June 7th 2010
Time: 16:00 – 19:00 (15:00 doors open, drinks till 21:00)
Location: De Duif (Prinsengracht 754, Amsterdam | map)
RSVPs available at Meetup on Monday, May 24th – 12.00 sharp
These events usually get booked within 15 minutes, so if you are planning to attend, be sure to put the RSVP time in your agenda. We hope to see you there!
GetJar, one of the largest independent application stores, today announced “The Gettie Awards 2010“. As you would expect from an independent store, the Awards are open for app submissions across six platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The event will take place in conjunction with the first evening of VentureBeat’s annual MobileBeat conference scheduled for July 12, 2010 in San Francisco.
Samsung Mobile Innovator
Additionally, Samsung is holding the Bada Developer Challenge, where “You could win a share of $2,700,000″. Registration opened yesterday and is still open until July 31st, with winners to be announced November 16th.
Today, we saw a new Android Market website. The new site now enables all visitors to get an idea of what kind of apps are available through the Market app on Android devices, which obviously is a good thing for the platform in general and developers specifically. While the new website shows more information than the previous one, information about apps is still very limited: ranks and applications prices are not displayed for example. Additionally, the content is not localized and therefore shows only apps that are popular around the globe.
For developers, it is still difficult to find out how their applications perform in the different localized Android Markets around the world. To gain more insight, they can use Distimo Monitor to view their country specific rankings.
M1 is one of the three main carriers in Singapore, and it just launched the M1 AppStore. The store supports multiple platforms: iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Java. iPhone is an interesting one here. Currently there are no iPhone apps available in the store and when this changes, it will redirect users to the Apple App Store to download and purchase specific iPhone apps.
Just after launch, the store now contains over 400 content items, both free and paid. The store is only available for M1 customers, which will see application purchases billed via their monthly phone bill or they can purchase these applications using pre-paid credit. The store has both a web and a mobile storefront.
Besides offering customers a convenient mean to access applications, the M1 AppStore will also serve as a channel for M1 to reach out and actively engage the community of local content developers.
Developers are important stakeholders and the M1 AppStore will create opportunities for win-win partnerships. We hope to attract more developers to join us in growing the M1 AppStore into a significant centre for content development. (Alex Tan, Deputy Director, Product Development, M1)
M1 Appstore
Developers that are interested in publishing applications in the M1 Appstore can sign up here. There is no registration fee and the revenue share for developers is 70%. We added the M1 Appstore to appstores.info.
TechCrunch reported, via the Wall Street Journal, that Verizon is working with Google on a tablet based on Android. As Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam told the WSJ:
He said the work on a tablet is part of a deepening relationship between the largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers and Google, which has carved out a space in mobile devices with its Android operating system.
Interestingly though, there are rumors circulating that Verizon may as well launch a CDMA version of the iPhone. As Google and Apple are increasingly competing with each other with the iPhone, advertising (iAd) and tablets, Apple will not be pleased with this deepening relationship, especially not when Apple was planning to launch the iPhone on Verizon’s network as well.
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