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What Pricing Model Is Best for My App?
To charge, or not to charge – that is the question. How you generate revenue from your app is one of the biggest decisions that you’ll have to make. For starters, it’s how you’re going to get paid and...
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Startups That Ignored the Law and Won
Startup culture is pretty much always heralded as a positive thing. Energetic, fast, mobile, responsive – these are all terms used to describe your average startup. But there’s a darker side to getting...
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App Store Predictions from 2008
In July 2008, Apple unveiled their App Store to the world – and it was an instant success. It made $30 million in 30 days, it had 200 million downloads in the first hundred days, and it grew by 170%...
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5 Confusing Icons and Their History
We see a lot of icons every day. From any experience in the app store to pressing play on your Walkman, we interact with them all the time. But a lot of icons that are deeply engrained in our lives...
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UX Tactics To Make Slow Things Seem Faster
There’s no better way to alienate your users more than to make them wait. And while your technological hands might be tied, your UX ones most certainly are not. We looked at what companies are doing to...
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Can I Click This?
Everyone wants more clicks. More taps. More users saying ‘yes, I’m into whatever it is that you’re giving me.’ We wanted to look at a few ways that actually make users want to click more. It’s pretty...
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What We Can Learn From a AOL’s 1995 Commercial
Why reinvent the wheel. It’s rad. It’s great. The wheel could not be better at its job. When we deal with tech and apps and new, fun, exciting toys, sometimes we lose sight of this. Especially when it...
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Create an App Demo Video in Minutes (With Gestures) for Free
When we first launched Placeit video, the main feedback was that the “invisible hand” was really throwing off the videos. What those users were referring to is not being able to see real hand gestures...
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The *Real* History of Apple’s Most Famous Commercial
That was the name of the first ever ad for the Apple “Think Different” campaign, which ran in a wildly successful manner from September 28, 1997 until 2002. The campaign, kicked off by the Crazy Ones...
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Get a Free Copy Of The UX Myths Pocket Book!
So we just released Placeit Video 2.0 and to celebrate this, we’re giving out free copies of the UX Myths book that we designed to any of our current subscribers and new subscribers. It’s really a...
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10 Great Device Mockups for Shopping Apps
There are lots of new apps being uploaded to the App Store and Google Play everyday, that’s why it’s important to stand out from the competition, and you can do that by displaying your new app in a...
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What We Can Learn From the Most Important Tech Commercial Ever
We’re not talking about the book you read in middle school. We’re talking about the Apple commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in January 1984 to promote the Macintosh computer, saying that...
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10 Apps That Made $$$: Their Sales, Tactics and What We Can Learn From Them
We talk about apps a lot here at Placeit (they’re pretty important to us, you see). So we wanted to take a minute and profile some people who have been through it all, made some money, and shared their...
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The Art of the In-App Purchase
A successful in-app purchase (IAP) strategy is about finding the tipping point between enough functionality without IAPs to create a positive experience, but with enough added value once the IAP is...
View Article10 Awesome iPhone 6 App Demo Videos for Lifestyle Apps
Your new iOS app sure looks amazing when you use it or show it to someone on your iPhone, doesn’t it? When doing so, people can take a look at what your design looks like, what color scheme you chose,...
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The Art of App Store Icons
Your icon is the face of your app. All your hard work and all your GitHub hours boil down to a little 1024 x 1024 square. Creating a great icon is pretty well recognized as one of the best things you...
View Article20 Stunning App Demo Video Templates for iOS Apps
When developing an iOS app, you have to keep in mind how are you going to spread the word on it, since app marketing is a main part of the process. This compilation post presents 20 Stunning App Demo...
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4 Apps With Great Viral Loops (Case Study)
There are literally millions of apps out there, but only a small number, like Candy Crush, ever become household names. What is it about those few apps that inspire millions of people to download, use...
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4 Bootstrapped and Indie App Development Companies – Exposed!
The indie development company – shrouded in mystery, intrigue, and myth. Never fully entering the spotlight but always dancing on the periphery – until now. Placeit is proud to bring you 4...
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Best Practices for Updating Your App on the App Store
Knowing when to update your app is a bit of a balancing act. On the one hand, users don’t want a push notification or an update notification on their phone every single day. On the other hand, updates...
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