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Got to Love the Music Industry
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 No commentsSo unfortunately, I missed the San Fran Music Tech run by my good friend Brian Zisk. In any case, I was chatting with a buddy catching-up on how the event was and as always, he pointed out that about half the attendees were attorneys. Now don’t get me wrong, I have lots of good attorney friends and some of the most insightful conversations I have at music conferences are with industry attorneys but you have to wonder why is this the case?
So I’m pulling up a slide here – I reconstructed it pretty quickly, it was originally shown in an episode of South Park:
You got to love it! Is this the slide for the music Web 2.0 industry:
Ha!
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What Platforms Should I Build For?
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 1 commentFYI – Re-posting this since my server had crashed and this was between a backup.
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At a recent dinner with a number of friends from the mobile gaming industry, I validated that iPhone was the #1 platform in terms of revenue but what’s interesting is what the rest of the platform stack looks like in the US – in order of revenue rank:1. iPhone
2. Blackberry
3. BREW
4. J2ME
5. AndroidOne of the game publishers said iPhone was doing 7X Blackberry which was their #2. Note, in the BB App World, apps are often listed upwards of $20. Also interesting to see Android at the bottom of the list but I fully expect that to climb especially as more Android based devices are launched later this year assuming we don’t have massive app store fragmentation on the platform. That being said, I also hear Android has the highest return rate, near 75% for some developers given how seamless the process is to return an application (clicking a button rather than having to make a phone call).
BREW is still a big money-maker and several X more than J2ME even though it’s basically a Verizon-only proposition – this story hasn’t changed from 01. The contrarian move would be to double-down on BREW given that so many developers are focused on the high-end. Also interesting is that S60 and Windows Mobile are not on the map but again, I fully expect that to change once the Ovi store is in full-force and the Windows Marketplace is up and running.
I've been living, breathing and working in mobile for the past 11 years. You can email me at raj at rajansingh dot com. Read more.
