Supercell's revenue, Apple's harsh temper, the game from the Kardashian sisters - and other news of the week for the mobile developer

2014 Supercell Financial Report

The titanium of the industry showed itself in numbers: according to the financial report, the company's revenue for 2014 amounted to $ 1.7 billion, which is approximately three times more than revenue for 2013.

Boosting such a significant increase in revenue could be like the appearance of a new title last year - a number of games such as Clash of Clans and Hay Day replenished Boom Beach, as well as the amount of money spent on marketing and advertising. Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen said that $ 400 million was spent on promoting games last year.

It is noteworthy that analysts expected more from Supercell: Superdata estimated the company's revenue of more than $ 1.8 billion.

Apple removes antiviruses from the store

Following news applications from the App Store , antiviruses began to disappear . According to the developers, Apple has a rather banal argument: “incorrect description”, although even after all the edits, the applications are not returned.

In fact, antiviruses are simply removed for the fact that, according to Apple, there can be no viruses on iOS, which means that such applications are not needed, as they mislead users or hint to them about a possible iOS vulnerability.

VirusBarrier, like some other antiviruses designed to scan mail or apple storages, which follows from their description, has been removed from the store, and it is not yet clear whether they will come back and under what conditions.

Android like wii

The ingenious guesses are usually very simple and after being voiced seem obvious. It remains only to be surprised: “And why didn’t you do this before?” That’s what happened with the creators of Motion Tennis Cast. They used a bunch of Android smartphones and a Chromecast media server as a wii prefix. An excellent and completely logical move, the performance of the selected devices allows you to do such things for a long time.


Judging by the video, the game is pretty straightforward, but this is only the beginning! We will wait for a surge in such games and lawsuits from Nintendo :)

Apple punishes app reviews

Recently , Russian news applications that talk about mobile technologies and innovations: iGuides and AppLifto were removed from the App Store . The main reason in both cases was a violation of paragraphs 2.25 and 2.26 of the Apple manual: the promotion of third-party programs.

But it is important to note that AppLifto and iGuides abused the spam of keywords in the title, posted materials about competing mobile platforms.
Yes, there are other similar applications to which Apple does not apply such actions, for example: AppleInsider.

The share of iPad in Russia fell by half

According to a study by J'son & Partners Consulting, Android tablets are increasingly preferred in Russia. So, in 2014, their market share grew to 89%, while the iPad’s share almost halved and fell to 10%.

It is important to note that over the past two years, the average selling price of tablets has almost halved, and this is below 10 thousand rubles. Moreover, the largest sales growth, almost doubled, showed the price category of tablets up to 5 thousand rubles. This is affected by the difficult financial situation in the country, and the constant rise in prices for Apple devices during 2014.

At the same time, the global share of the iPad fluctuates slightly and according to the results of 2014 amounted to 28%, and tablets on Android - no more than 68%.

Glu will release a game with the Kardashian sisters

Not so long ago we already mentioned that the fame of Kim Kardashian deprived many of their sleep and appetite. Our list has replenished, this time Kim sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner got in line (If I correctly understood Wikipedia, they are even relatives).

This, of course, was an irony, and the sisters did not get up anywhere, and Glu Mobile was to blame for everything, which, in the wake of success, decided to tightly occupy the celebrity games market and stood in line for itself. The tactics are quite successful and have already been tested by different companies several times - we occupy the market with the reskins of one game, and the life of competitors (and they are!) Becomes noticeably more difficult.

In case the Kardashian brand has already exhausted itself, Glu has a solution - a game with singer Katy Perry. I hope Glu also has a solution in case the genre of “playing with celebrities” has exhausted itself.


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