John Miachel

The Russian mobile app segment is entering a period of change. In response to sanctions and changing technologies, companies, especially banks, are reconsidering their strategies for developing online channels. Now they focus not so much on Google Play and the App Store, but on developing their unique solutions. Will the new approach help overcome the limitations of large online stores and positively influence the mobile app industry? Online Stores and Developers: Problems of Interaction Since the emergence of the dominant online stores of Apple and Google in 2008, the mobile application segment has undergone significant transformations. The App Store and Google Play platforms (and then similar app stores of Huawei, Samsung, and others) opened up new prospects for developers. They showed that the mobile format has huge potential for successful monetization. From year to year, the audience of mobile applications and the income received with their help grew. Last year, the combined turn...

The mobile database extends the cloud computing model by distributing data storage and processing from the cloud to mobile devices running applications, writes Mark Gamble, director of product and solutions marketing at Couchbase, on The New Stack. You may have heard that the use of mobile apps is increasing significantly around the world. Here are some interesting facts that support this: There are approximately 6.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, and this number is constantly growing. Every day, users spend between four and five hours on mobile applications. In 2022, users will download 255 billion apps worldwide, up more than 80% from  2016. With such a global boom in mobile app usage, organizations are rushing to bring their apps to market to take advantage of the demand. However, there are several issues they need to address before they start developing, such as which platforms to build the app for and where to store and process data in the app architecture. The first que...