Mobile Applications
topic on 5 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
In Depth 
the Pitch 
Top Founders 
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7 statements about Mobile Applications, every show
Smith: Only 2% of Retailers Currently Have Mobile Applications
“Two percent of retailers have mobile applications right now.”
Smith: Mid-Market Retailers Spend $250,000 on First-Year App Development
“If you are a retailer and you want to build a mobile app, in the case of a smaller retailer who's generating a million dollars or more in revenue. That retailer is spending a quarter of a million dollars the first year to build that mobile application.”
Magnuson: Mobile apps freeze risk force-quits if latency exceeds 50 milliseconds
“And if it freezes for more than 50 milliseconds, you think that it's died and you're going to force quit it, right? Like you had to be interactive in terms of the personalization of the delivery.”
Rabins: Mobile enterprise apps are almost always data capture and dispatch
“What we found is that when it comes to mobile the kind of app that people want to build is
Almost always some form of data capture and dispatch.”
McMaster: Under 200 apps account for 80% of global mobile data
“If you look at the app world, I would say probably less than 200 applications account for 75 to 80% of all global mobile data usage.”
Today's dominant mobile apps will be replaced within 5 to 10 years
“So if you click your phone and assume the applications that we use today will be used in five years or 10 years, I would think that you're just wrong.”