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AppBoard Tuesday – The Journey From An Idea To An App

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 At times, you just know that you have chanced upon a good app idea. And then, all goes to waste – because you spend too much time procrastinating on how it can actually be transformed into a mobile application (or whether doing so would be even possible). The notion of learning the basics of iOS/Android programming, and then getting down to make an app, is hardly practical either. A unique, interesting, and (most importantly) practically viable app idea is worth its weight in gold – and in this week’s AppBoard Tuesday (ABT), we will guide you on how app ideas can be systematically transformed into efficient mobile applications: 1. Make sure your app idea is complete – You cannot work with a half-baked, one-liner app idea (say, ‘I want to make an iPhone app for travelers’). Jot down the features that you want the application to have, and think about the manner in which end-users will benefit from it. Make sure that your app idea has one core focus (which would be the main ‘purpos...

AppBoard Tuesday – Simple Tricks To Serve App Clients Better

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 There probably has never been a truer thing spoken about the corporate world. Think of it this way – someone contacts your company for custom mobile app development, finds your services disappointing, and promptly gets in touch with another firm. You lose that particular business lead, along with a bit of your goodwill (the bad worth-of-mouth reports will take care of that). The concept of ‘ providing client satisfaction ’ has become too cliched as well. The domain of mobile app making is competitive to the core – and success (or otherwise) lies in the ability of a company to ‘ wow ’ its customers…give them something that ‘ exceeds ’ their expectations. In this edition of AppBoard Tuesday (ABT), we offer a sneak peek into easy ways to keep the smiles of your app clients always in place: To get more info click here :  creating apps for iphone Inquire a lot – Once you have accepted a project and provided a free app quote on it, interact with your client properly...

LoRaWAN In India: Developments, Opportunities & More

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  According to reasonable estimates, the world will have close to 76 billion connected devices by the end of 2025. Internet of Things (IoT) has already started to make its presence felt in diverse fields – affecting and improving the lives and operations of both general customers (the random Joe-s) as well as governmental bodies. While North America, Greater China and Europe are, expectedly, the runaway leaders – India is moving ahead at a fast clip in this domain. A recent report pegged the annual IoT growth rate in India (for the 2017-2020 period) at ~41% – well over the worldwide growth rate.   As the IoT industry continues to mature and move beyond the experimentation phases, the importance of the LPWAN (low power wide area networks) market is increasingly coming into focus. By 2025, 1 out of every 9 smart devices is set to be connected with one or the other form of LPWAN technologies. There will be 190+ million LPWAN-connected devices in 2019 – and in another two year...

AI-as-a-Service: All That You Need To Know

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  In 2008, the worldwide software-as-a-service market was worth only $5.6 billion. Cut to 2020, and that figure is expected to soar to $133 billion – clearly indicating the rapid rise in demand for consumption-based software services (‘a la carte software’, so to speak). Between 2018 and 2020, the total number of SaaS subscriptions are set to jump by nearly 96%. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the fastest growing technology sub-domains at present.   While services like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) have been in discussion for some time now – the ‘as-a-service’ market is gradually being extended into newer, more cutting-edge, fields. The artificial intelligence-as-a-service (AIaaS) market is a classic example of that. According to estimates, the worldwide AIaaS market will be valued at just a shade under $11 billion by the end of 2023, with the 2017-2023 CAGR hovering around the 49% mark. The biggest of players, like Micros...

15 Mobile And App Trends For 2018 To Watch Out For

  Last year, nearly 198 billion mobile applications were downloaded by smartphone-owners – ~18% more than the corresponding figure in 2016. To keep up with the high demand levels, the availability of apps is also spiralling rapidly. By December 2017, the total count of apps in the Google Play Store was in excess of 3.5 million. The Apple App Store, on the other hand, had 3.1 million+ applications (including games) in 2017 Q3. Given the high revenue potential of the global app ecosystem – more and more coders are taking up app development as a profession. At last count, the App Store had close to 500000 app-makers, while nearly 970000 developers were working on the Android platform. In today’s discourse, we will do a roundup of some interesting facts and trends related to mobile apps for 2018:     1.     Money matters For all the speculation about the worldwide app economy slowing down as it enters early maturity, the revenue potentials of this secto...