Best Mobile App Review Site: AppsZoom
2013 Mobile Devices Readers’ Choice Awards Winners
March 27, 2013
The big day finally arrives! Here are the Winners of the 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards at Mobile Devices.
While many established companies held their Number 1 position at the Awards as well, there were also some surprises along the way, with lesser established names making their mark and emerging the winner of this year’s competition. Read on to find out if your favorite company captured the winning title in 2013.
A big thank you to one and all who participated in this event – special thanks to the readers who registered their votes and helped spread the word about the Awards!
NOTE: All of the final votes were audited for evidence of poll gaming and other unethical practices to win.
RCA 2013: List of Finalists on Mobile Devices
Best Mobile OS for Developers: Google Android
Percentage of Votes: 57%
The Android OS was voted as the best mobile platform for app developers.
The Android OS, initially developed by Android Inc., was bought by Google in 2005. This open source platform provides app developers the freedom to modify it as per their preferences, thereby encouraging their creative abilities to the maximum. Running very close to its rival, the mighty Apple iOS, the Android OS has emerged as one of the most widely used mobile platforms, registering a market share of 75 percent during the third quarter of 2012.
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Review Apple iOS: 33% Windows Phone: 9%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best App Store for Developers: Google Play
Percentage of Votes: 54%
Google Play has grabbed the first place among the various mobile app stores.
Google Play, which was formerly referred to as the Android Market, is a digital application distribution channel for Android, solely maintained by Google. This service permits app developers to submit their apps to the market place, ranks them and presents them to users who would wish to download and use the same.
Google Play features both free and paid apps that can be downloaded directly onto on Android or Google TV device or via the Play Store. With the merging of the Android Market and Google Music in 2012, this service was renamed Google Play.
iOS App Store Vs. Google Play Store for App Developers Apple App Store: 45%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Book on Mobile App Development: iPhone for Dummies (English)
Percentage of Votes: 50%
Authored by Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus, this book offers readers complete information on using the Apple iPhone and taking full advantage of all the features of this advanced smartphone. This full-color book serves as the best guide to understand the iPhone, to work better along with its amazing capabilities. This guide teaches you how to incorporate better mobile security, work with its multitasking functionality, troubleshoot the most common problems and so on.
Presented in an easy, conversational fashion, this is the ideal book to totally acquaint yourself with the iPhone.
Top 5 Books on Android App Development Building iPhone Apps with HTML…: 16% Professional Android 2 Application Development: 33%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Book on Mobile Game App Development: Game Development Essentials
Percentage of Votes: 90%
Authored by Kimberly Unger and Jeannie Novak, this book takes you through a comprehensive study of the art and science of mobile game app development. This book not only teaches you develop games for mobile devices, but also looks at the processes involved in team building, production, publishing and so on; thereby walking you through the entire experience of game app design and development.
Using real-life examples and featuring interviews by experts in the industry, this is a useful guide to those seriously interested in developing mobile game apps.
5 Best Books on Mobile Game App Development Beginning Mobile Phone Game Programming: 0% Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: 4% Mobile 3D Game Development: 1% The Art of Game Design….: 3%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Tool for Amateur Developers: AppMakr
Percentage of Votes: 50%
AppMakr is a DIY platform helping users create content-based apps for the Android, iPhone and Windows Phone mobile operating systems. Featuring a WYSIWYG editor, this service does not require users to possess advanced knowledge of coding. Free to use, this service uses RSS to power the content present in an app, which may include text, images, audio, video and so on. While developers can use its in-app HTML features to work along with a device’s native features, they can also its location-aware features to add more functionality to their app.
Additionally partnering with some ad networks, this service also helps developers monetize their app.
DIY Cross-Platform App Formatting Tools and App Development Appcelerator: 8% Mobical: 0% Rseven: 16% Trackur: 25%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Tool for App Designers: MobiCart
Percentage of Votes: 56%
MobiCart turned out to be a surprise winner at this year’s Awards.
MobiCart is a simple way to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart works on its own, or links up to your existing website. MobiCart is a startup that is taking m-commerce to a new level of personalization by enabling anyone to quickly deploy a native storefront application on iOS and Android devices as well as HTML5.
This service combines a customized application development platform with an online ecosystem for sharing extensions.
The Role of Mobile Carriers in mCommerce and Mobile Marketing Funambol: 0% Livecode: 41% Memotoo: 0% SaasMob: 0%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Tool for Cross-Platform Formatting of Apps: RhoMobile
Percentage of Votes: 57%
Rhomobile provides users a free and open source framework for cross-platform application development for mobile devices. Developers can use HTML, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to create native apps and then deploy them to different OS’ and/or mobile systems. The mobile platforms supported by this service are Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile BlackBerry and so on. RhoHub is an additional optional service that helps developers deploy apps, builds and sync servers to the cloud.
The company also offers RhoGallery, its Enterprise App Store. This entire suite of services assists enterprises to develop, distribute and manage all enterprise apps and other data.
FAQ on Designing Multi-Platform Mobile Applications AppMakr: 0% Corona SDK: 6% Phonegap: 2% WeeverApps: 33%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Mobile Website Creator: goMobi
Percentage of Votes: 91%
goMobi is a mobile Website publishing platform from dotMobi, specializing in the provision of mobile Web technology, focused on helping users reach more customers online. The company provides all the solutions required by establishments to ensure consistency of content at all times. dotMobi, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias, was founded in 2005 by leading mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), Visa and Vodafone.
9 Free Tools to Help You Create a Mobile Website MobiCart: 2% Mobify: 6%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Mobile App Marketing Agency: Dot Com Infoway
Percentage of Votes: 81%
RunRev is an independent technology company committed to taking the complexity out of creating mobile apps, games and e-books. To achieve this important goal RunRev created LiveCode. With LiveCode everyone can create apps. The natural LiveCode language makes it easy to learn to code, the graphical tool palette makes it fun to layout apps and the powerful cross platform engine makes it straight forward to deploy apps onto all the most popular devices.
Used in over 40 countries to teach students how to program, it is widely used in industry to solve real world business problems where it is recognized as an essential productivity tool.
Common Mistakes to Avoid during Mobile App Development AppMakr: 0% WeeverApps: 18%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
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Best Mobile App Review Site: AppsZoom
Percentage of Votes: 80%
Dot Com Infoway is yet another surprise winner this year.
Dot Com Infoway (DCI) is an IT Services company located in India providing offshore IT outsourcing solutions to businesses across the globe. DCI provides enterprise solutions that include software solutions, web solutions, mobile application solutions, Internet marketing and a whole gamut of IT solutions and products to clients.
The company uses proven mobile app marketing strategies to design and execute a perfect launch for apps and make them stand out from other mobile applications in the market. Dot Com Infoway also offers customized mobile app marketing solutions to help developers promote their apps in every mobile app marketplace of their choice, in order to gain maximum downloads.
8 Most Popular iPhone App Marketing Agencies Airpush: 1% Appular: 17%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
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Percentage of Votes: 86%
Voted the best mobile app review site this year, AppsZoom comprises an efficient editorial team which reviews thousands of apps per year, reviewing and rating them fairly, thereby helping audiences the world over, discover mobile apps in every conceivable category. This service also offers developers a channel to showcase their apps, thereby helping them interact with users, while also promoting and distributing their apps in this manner.
Appszoom is available for smartphones, tablets and desktop computers as well, through native apps or convenient web layouts.
Top Android App Review Sites for Developers Best iPhone App Review Sites for Developers AppVee: 1% FreshApps: 0% Daily App Show: 9%
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
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March 27, 2013
The big day finally arrives! Here are the Winners of the 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards at Mobile Devices.
While many established companies held their Number 1 position at the Awards as well, there were also some surprises along the way, with lesser established names making their mark and emerging the winner of this year’s competition. Read on to find out if your favorite company captured the winning title in 2013.
A big thank you to one and all who participated in this event – special thanks to the readers who registered their votes and helped spread the word about the Awards!
NOTE: All of the final votes were audited for evidence of poll gaming and other unethical practices to win.
Best Mobile OS for Developers: Google Android
Percentage of Votes: 57%
The Android OS was voted as the best mobile platform for app developers.
The Android OS, initially developed by Android Inc., was bought by Google in 2005. This open source platform provides app developers the freedom to modify it as per their preferences, thereby encouraging their creative abilities to the maximum. Running very close to its rival, the mighty Apple iOS, the Android OS has emerged as one of the most widely used mobile platforms, registering a market share of 75 percent during the third quarter of 2012.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph.
Best App Store for Developers: Google Play
Percentage of Votes: 54%
Google Play has grabbed the first place among the various mobile app stores.
Google Play, which was formerly referred to as the Android Market, is a digital application distribution channel for Android, solely maintained by Google. This service permits app developers to submit their apps to the market place, ranks them and presents them to users who would wish to download and use the same.
Google Play features both free and paid apps that can be downloaded directly onto on Android or Google TV device or via the Play Store. With the merging of the Android Market and Google Music in 2012, this service was renamed Google Play.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Book on Mobile App Development: iPhone for Dummies (English)
Percentage of Votes: 50%
Authored by Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus, this book offers readers complete information on using the Apple iPhone and taking full advantage of all the features of this advanced smartphone. This full-color book serves as the best guide to understand the iPhone, to work better along with its amazing capabilities. This guide teaches you how to incorporate better mobile security, work with its multitasking functionality, troubleshoot the most common problems and so on.
Presented in an easy, conversational fashion, this is the ideal book to totally acquaint yourself with the iPhone.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Book on Mobile Game App Development: Game Development Essentials
Percentage of Votes: 90%
Authored by Kimberly Unger and Jeannie Novak, this book takes you through a comprehensive study of the art and science of mobile game app development. This book not only teaches you develop games for mobile devices, but also looks at the processes involved in team building, production, publishing and so on; thereby walking you through the entire experience of game app design and development.
Using real-life examples and featuring interviews by experts in the industry, this is a useful guide to those seriously interested in developing mobile game apps.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Tool for Amateur Developers: AppMakr
Percentage of Votes: 50%
AppMakr is a DIY platform helping users create content-based apps for the Android, iPhone and Windows Phone mobile operating systems. Featuring a WYSIWYG editor, this service does not require users to possess advanced knowledge of coding. Free to use, this service uses RSS to power the content present in an app, which may include text, images, audio, video and so on. While developers can use its in-app HTML features to work along with a device’s native features, they can also its location-aware features to add more functionality to their app.
Additionally partnering with some ad networks, this service also helps developers monetize their app.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Tool for App Designers: MobiCart
Percentage of Votes: 56%
MobiCart turned out to be a surprise winner at this year’s Awards.
MobiCart is a simple way to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart works on its own, or links up to your existing website. MobiCart is a startup that is taking m-commerce to a new level of personalization by enabling anyone to quickly deploy a native storefront application on iOS and Android devices as well as HTML5.
This service combines a customized application development platform with an online ecosystem for sharing extensions.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Tool for Cross-Platform Formatting of Apps: RhoMobile
Percentage of Votes: 57%
Rhomobile provides users a free and open source framework for cross-platform application development for mobile devices. Developers can use HTML, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to create native apps and then deploy them to different OS’ and/or mobile systems. The mobile platforms supported by this service are Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile BlackBerry and so on. RhoHub is an additional optional service that helps developers deploy apps, builds and sync servers to the cloud.
The company also offers RhoGallery, its Enterprise App Store. This entire suite of services assists enterprises to develop, distribute and manage all enterprise apps and other data.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Mobile Website Creator: goMobi
Percentage of Votes: 91%
goMobi is a mobile Website publishing platform from dotMobi, specializing in the provision of mobile Web technology, focused on helping users reach more customers online. The company provides all the solutions required by establishments to ensure consistency of content at all times. dotMobi, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias, was founded in 2005 by leading mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), Visa and Vodafone.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Mobile App Marketing Agency: Dot Com Infoway
Percentage of Votes: 81%
RunRev is an independent technology company committed to taking the complexity out of creating mobile apps, games and e-books. To achieve this important goal RunRev created LiveCode. With LiveCode everyone can create apps. The natural LiveCode language makes it easy to learn to code, the graphical tool palette makes it fun to layout apps and the powerful cross platform engine makes it straight forward to deploy apps onto all the most popular devices.
Used in over 40 countries to teach students how to program, it is widely used in industry to solve real world business problems where it is recognized as an essential productivity tool.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Best Mobile App Review Site: AppsZoom
Percentage of Votes: 80%
Dot Com Infoway is yet another surprise winner this year.
Dot Com Infoway (DCI) is an IT Services company located in India providing offshore IT outsourcing solutions to businesses across the globe. DCI provides enterprise solutions that include software solutions, web solutions, mobile application solutions, Internet marketing and a whole gamut of IT solutions and products to clients.
The company uses proven mobile app marketing strategies to design and execute a perfect launch for apps and make them stand out from other mobile applications in the market. Dot Com Infoway also offers customized mobile app marketing solutions to help developers promote their apps in every mobile app marketplace of their choice, in order to gain maximum downloads.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
Percentage of Votes: 86%
Voted the best mobile app review site this year, AppsZoom comprises an efficient editorial team which reviews thousands of apps per year, reviewing and rating them fairly, thereby helping audiences the world over, discover mobile apps in every conceivable category. This service also offers developers a channel to showcase their apps, thereby helping them interact with users, while also promoting and distributing their apps in this manner.
Appszoom is available for smartphones, tablets and desktop computers as well, through native apps or convenient web layouts.
Final Vote Tally
Note: Rounding errors may result in voting percentage not totaling to 100%.
View the voting results graph
.
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