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Device Specific vs. Browser Development (A Business and Marketing Perspective) William Volk, CCO, PlayScreen LLC Business, Marketing and Development Aspects.
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The iPhone, HTML5 and I … For a year, only web apps. Two of our apps (iAquarium and Keno) among the most popular in daily users. Apple still maintains the portal: http://www.apple.com/webapps/
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Decent Traffic. High eCPM ($4 to $13). Apps ran surprisingly well. Hard to monetize. Audio was impossible. Traffic fell after native apps. It helped us with Apple.
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Apple’s App Store 1.iTunes: An accepted unified billing solution. 2.On-Device and side loading purchases. 3.AT&T (etc.) relinquishes control of app sales. 4.Low friction for publishers and consumers. The Result? Average user will download 83 apps in 2011, >15 Billion downloads, >400,000 apps Model yet to be replicated by any other handset manufacturer* * … as effectively.
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Native Apps Advantages Discovery. Performance. Revenue. IP Value.
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HTML5 Apps Advantages Cost. Portability. Rapid Updates. Future Proof. We need ‘encapsulated’ web apps.
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Hybrid Approach HTML->Native – PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium. Portability. Rapid Updates. Future Proof. Easier to Prototype.
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Even if you go ‘native’ Use HTML for rapid update. Prototype. Marketing Tests.
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Facebook, 25m iPads and HTML5 "Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second."
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Facebook, 25m iPads and HTML5 Flash or HTML5? Issues (it’s that audio thing again). FOLLOW THE MONEY: Zynga buys Dextrose. Our AAA big title …. Will Google Plus Get Apps? Oh yeah, the WebOS thing.
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Facebook, 25m iPads and HTML5 Facebook is about to launch a mobile platform aimed squarely at working on the iPhone (and iPad), it will be entirely HTML5-based and work in Safari.
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Conclusions Eventually encapsulated web-apps … What Nokia should have done. It’s going to be a mad mad multi-platform world. ChromeTops, Quake and other interesting things.
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