Commerce

Podcast: The power of cohort compounding (with Nilay Patel)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0iWG03UaZfb8leF5XYxC5a?si=3ee52384bf9e4efa My guest on this episode of the podcast is Nilay Patel, the head of product at Kohort, a cohort…

Microsoft’s alternative app store that isn’t

Microsoft announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit last week that it will launch a web-based store for mobile gaming consumables…

Apple’s DMA concession: good news for developers

Apple published an update to its EU App Store Developer Guidelines yesterday. As part of the update, Apple has changed…

Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 3)

Apple yesterday published its long-awaited guidance around its compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union. I…

January 26, 2024

Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 2)

The Supreme Court this week declined to hear Apple's appeal of an antitrust case that compels the company to allow…

January 18, 2024

Amazon’s advertising partnerships with Meta and Snap

Last week, news of an advertising partnership between Amazon and Meta surfaced and was quickly confirmed by Amazon. I hesitated…

November 15, 2023

Are fast food chains taking on UberEats?

Last week, in How the NFL reshuffled the App Store, I drew attention to the fact that the start of…

September 21, 2023

Instacart is an advertising and subscription business

Maplebear, Inc., the operator of the Instacart grocery shopping app, filed its S-1 form last Friday. The company intends to…

August 28, 2023

Meta to launch direct-to-install ads for Android. Will they work?

The Verge reports that Meta will launch a direct-to-install app advertising product for Android under the auspices of the EU's…

How are web payments changing the economics of mobile gaming?

. If the revenue from the long tail of a game's LTV distribution can be routed through a web shop,…