Devotion to iOS remains high. Flurry found that Apple devices averaged about 14 times as many active users than devices running Android, BlackBerry, or Windows platforms. If you break the numbers down by manufacturer, Apple devices have four times as many users than Amazon and seven times as many users than Samsung.
App sessions tended to be more concentrated on specific devices. Flurry detected that 80% of sessions were run on 72 different models . This is likely …
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…buy smartphones and tablet PCs, but they are not from Microsoft: they are mainly from Apple (iPhone & iPad), or equipped with Android. We have seen in the Microcomputer revolution what happens to older, larger systems if they are increasingly replaced by newer, smaller systems with a new operating system. I am curious how it will turn out this time.
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…them coming back for more than just your products. Think of strong brands like Zappos, Apple, Rackspace, and Warby Parker. These companies not only have strong brands, but their customers have a cult following for everything they do.
Take Zappos. When they ran out of a particular shoe, a customer service rep went to another shoe store to get a pair for a customer. Or Warby Parker, who shot videos of themselves answering customer questions and uploaded them to …