That quote jumped out at me in an announcement this week from Ireland-based NewBay that they’ve decided to set up their US headquarters here in Seattle. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of NewBay before this news found its way into my feed reader, and I can’t vouch for the quality of their “digital lifestyle continue…
Monday this week I was on a panel at DiscoveryBeat 2010, a one-day show devoted to the topic of getting your smartphone app discovered. Speaker after speaker (myself included) delivered the same bad news: the eye of the app distribution needle is getting smaller every day and the deck is now stacked in favor of continue…
If you’ve been paying attention to the massive disruption underway in the mobile ecosystem (think iPhone, iPad, Android, app stores + platform wars) you’ve probably gotten the message that carriers aren’t what moves the market any longer. Operating systems (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Phone 7, etc) and the app ecosystems they support are where continue…
I’ll be attending CTIA for the next few days – I’m on a panel Thursday afternoon and have a bunch of meetings lined up on behalf of Founders Co-op portfolio company AppStoreHQ – but I’d love to connect with anyone at the show who’s interested in the Android platform, the mobile developer community and the continue…