Useful materials for mobile developer # 49 (April 14-20)

This week was a very interesting article on “mobile” pricing from Oleg Yakubenkov from Zeptolab, a preview version of WP 8.1 was released and the announcement of changes was published in the Windows and Windows Phone application stores, and the App Annie Market Index was released in the first quarter. Well, and many other interesting news in the weekly digest.

Pricing experiments. Features of human perception.

As always, a great article by Oleg Yakubenkov from Zeptolab. It describes various psychological aspects of price perception and how this can be used in your business, including when selling mobile applications.

Ubuntu on Meizu MX3 smartphone - what does it look like?

Meizu signed an agreement with Canonical, becoming one of the first companies to produce ubuntu smartphones. And the other day Meizu posted on the Web video of the work of this OS on the smartphone MX3.

Introduced the first prototype of a modular smartphone from Google.

The other day, Google, at a conference for developers, presented the first prototype of its modular Ara smartphone (in this connection, the article “ Memories of the future: revolutionary projects that we have seen before ” cannot be noted).

Always on: UX innovations in modern smartphones

At the conference, Yota Devices spoke about the ideology of the company and how its devices can be useful to all those who create Android applications.

App Annie Market Index for Q1 2014

A new report, the Annie Market Index, has been released on the growth of the application ecosystem in different countries. It tracks the app market (iOS App Store and Google Play) in the first quarter of 2014 in 150 countries, highlighting trends and their likely impact on the business of developers.
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