Appfigures Blog
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Appfigures' company blog analyzes app store data, covering developer trends, reviews, SDK usage and download rankings.
What HN saysHN links it for app store statistics, such as Microsoft Office's use of React Native, the drop in iOS app releases and cross-platform SDK popularity.
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Most-shared posts
- 1iOS Developers Ship 29% Fewer Apps in 2017, the First Ever Decline4 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 2Microsoft Office mobile apps started using React Native3 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Shazam removed all 3rd party SDKs from its iPhone app2 people · 93 points · first shared 2019 · 30 comments on HN
- 4Data Bits: Less Than One Percent of iOS App Developers Have Half of All Reviews2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 5iOS app reviews are mostly positive2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6How Big Is the Apple TV App Store?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7AppStrategy: How we growth hacked the iOS kids market2 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8CNN's app was flooded with negative reviews last week1 people · 13 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 995% of reviews for Uber's app are negative in last two days1 people · 12 points · first shared 2017 · 9 comments on HN
- 10Angry Birds Turns Five: What We Can Learn from the Franchise’s Success1 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Google Play grows bigger than Apple's App Store in 20141 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 12House of Cards Stacks the Deck for Monument Valley’s Success in Major App Stores1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13Most App Developers Stick With One Store1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Are App Bundles Living Up to the Hype?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Are Free Speech and App Store Ratings Related?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Despegar · 2019-02-21
ITP is great for protecting privacy on the web but doesn't do anything for native apps. Apple needs to crack down on third party frameworks that developers are distributing in their apps. I hope this is a sign of an upcoming policy change.
https://blog.appfigures.com/shazam-for-ios-sheds-3rd-party-sdks/
Androider · 2020-01-29
Microsoft has been building Word on Windows since the 80's, so it's never going to be re-written. I'm not that familiar with the Mac version of Word, but I find the Mac Excel version lacking compared to its Windows counterpart.
For Word and Excel for iOS and Android they use... React Native [1].
[1] https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-native-for-…
arielm · 2019-12-28
That’s such a good point, especially when competitors like Microsoft are gaining on them (https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-teams-dethrones-slack-becomes-mo… ) and Discord is growing even faster.
htormey · 2019-08-15
Microsoft Office has gone all in with React Native as well. Here is a recent comment from Andy Coates talking about MS Office Android performance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413046
Other article talking about it:
https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-native-for-…
zerr · 2018-05-21
Interestingly, Flash/Air seems most-popular cross-platform mobile toolkit for app dev (far ahead React Native):
https://blog.appfigures.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/11-Non-Native-S…
(from https://blog.appfigures.com/ios-developers-ship-less-apps-for-first-ti… )
httpwatch · 2014-07-08
The app store is optimized for mass appeal apps. It only shows reviews for the latest version in your country's app store. The HttpWatch app has had a reasonable number of reviews but it is a relatively niche app.
Getting app reviews is very hard unless you have hundreds of thousands of downloads. This post suggests that only 10% of all apps have one or more reviews:
http://blog.appfigures.com/a-deep-dive-into-app-store-reviews-distribu…