I regularly cover trends in top grossing iPhone / iPad applications. What makes this update noteworthy is that:

Have you gotten sick of my writing about getting your marketing and product promotions “in the river”?
“In the river” is my terminology for making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and …

Following up on yesterday’s post about the impact Apple and Android are making on the gaming industry… here is a screenshot of today’s top grossing iPhone Apps. A couple notes of interest:

Two years ago, I wrote about the looming death of portable gaming devices… seems like it happened sooner than we thought.

Nike has released the Nike+ GPS iPhone application to help you track, map and analyze your runs. It is a paid $1.99 application. Without needing the shoes, wristband, and/or monitor, the Nike+ application uses GPS …

Fascinating chart on AlleyInsider this week noting that, for the first time ever, pay TV has lost subscribers. A little earlier in the week, the NYTimes argued that TV is changing (web, applications, on-demand) but …

And this is why I am so bullish on Facebook Places:
The two biggest components of a winning location play are:
1. network (and we know that Facebook is the largest at 500m+ users)
2. mobile (geo is …

No real news here – unless you are a huge Doodle Jump fan (one of the highest selling iphone apps of all time – and one of the biggest time sinks of all time).

Applications now being built atop:
– mobile web (html5, wap, etc)
– mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, etc)
– browser extensions (chrome, firefox, safari, etc)
– desktop apps (ie adobe air)

I have written before about Amazon’s Kindle Ad Units – which are usually excellent. Here is the latest – and you will notice the similarity in prior units. Nevertheless, I love the tagline “Buy Once, …

… So when does iOS 4 arrive for the iPad?
… And why is the gap between releases (iPhone vs iPad) so significant?
I ask because, even as an active iPad fanboy, it really bugs me. …

Last week YouTube Mobile adopted HTML5… it wasn’t long ago that Apple touted YouTube as the iPhone’s original launch partner (via a native application). Their adoption of HTML5 is yet another indication that it is …