New Study Says 70% Of App Developers Can’t Foster Innovation Due To Time Constraints

New research is shedding light on how 70% of the app developer community isn’t happy with the amount of time presented to them for innovation.

They feel their creativity is getting limited and that means fostering innovation is at a standstill, only because of time constraints. Remember, today’s industry is very fast-paced and people putting out great solutions for the future and supporting that with incredible plans for groundbreaking projects are highly appreciated.

Therefore, seeing someone get limited by time means a huge hurdle is at stake for professionals in the app development industry.

So as more and more days go by, the competition continues to get tougher. We’re restricted by time and it’s quite evident that the current situation must not be overlooked to see how concerning time constraints can be to produce an environment that’s designed for problem-solving on a creative front.

Thanks to a new study conducted by Onymos, we saw one developer clearly delineate how the majority of app developers are not happy with how much time they’re provided with from the start to get worthy results.

Most leaders spoke about the intense workload involved when it comes down to ensuring apps are up to date and that goes on increasing from one year to the next.

This particular research also showed how nearly one-third of the development leaders spoke of teams allocating 50% of their time to conducting maintenance ordeals.

Without any question, that’s a huge number of resources linked to the management of apps that already exist. And that has even less room for things like innovation.

A whopping 70% of developers in charge of apps say they’re not satisfied with the time allocated to get desirable and creative results. They call it humanely impossible to work at their best potential to give rise to such innovation.

In one particular industry, so many groundbreaking ideas were put forward with the right solutions that are extremely valued. This gave rise to plenty of unhappy faces and professionals who just couldn’t see why and how they were being asked to do so much in so little time. Remember, expectations are a lot of time is limited.

So many developers feel innovation cannot come in this manner. And the longer time provided, the better the results can be. Moreover, 50% of such developers spoke about getting dissatisfied with the manner in which teams behave in this regard.

This makes it clear how there is a bigger need now than ever for streamlined strategies to enhance the speed at which new feature developments can be done so firms stay on top of their game and ensure competition is at an all-time high in today’s growing market.

On average, the findings proved that a timeframe of four to six months was necessary to ensure the completion of projects and that was the response of 30% of the leaders. Meanwhile, another 28% revealed how an additional six-month period was required to complete projects. And such results just go to show how businesses struggle in staying on par with project deadlines.

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Which Broadband Service Provider Is Giving Americans The Fastest Results? This New Survey Says It All

A new report is shedding light on American fixed broadband service providers and how satisfied consumers really are in today’s time.

The study comes to us thanks to Opensignal who shares more insights on whose leading the pack in terms of speed for uploads and downloads as well as other factors that better the entire user experience.

This particular study provided more details on how plenty of regional markets are going head to head and how they’re comparing against one another in the competitive market.

The study was published this month and it entailed the latest figures on this front during the morning hours. Moreover, the company noted how every provider in this study listed important services in nearly four out of the five places and even passed more than one million residences.

OpenSignal says it had all of the leading broadband options inside of it including the likes of Starlink.

Verizon Fios was the front-runner in terms of the fastest download speeds across the American broadband internet market. The figures stood at 157 Mbps while in second place, it was AT&T’s fiber network with a speed of 140 Mbps. And the top three were rounded up by Google Fiber.

Closely trailing behind including Spectrum and Cox with 137 and 131 Mbps.

The study showed how Verizon and T-Mobile were a part of the list’s middle. As far as those who performed poorly on the list are concerned, it had to do with home services that were non-fiber and happened to be a part of the list of small-scale providers.

Coming down to stats for average upload speeds of broadband services, both Google Fiber and AT&T continued to beat out Verizon. And it was also witnessed creating a score of 107 when compared to the 96 Mbps figures for AT&T.

In terms of consistency, we saw Verizon lead the pack, beating out second and third-place winners Frontier and Google.

As far as video experiences are concerned, the search engine giant could beat Verizon by a small fraction as the authors even conducted a comparison that went head to head against the rest to see how well they faired against each other.

One prime example of that was T-Mobile’s internet service that’s based on 5G and it was compared against the likes of classic providers. The authors mentioned more about how well it performed and how it ended up beating the likes of Frontier and even CenturyLink. These both arise under the non-fiber category.

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Advertising CPM Sees 33% Decrease YoY

After a turbulent time during which Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Protocol coupled with the EU’s new GDRP regulations wreaked havoc with the advertising ecosystem, it seems like the industry is getting a well deserved break. Data derived from the State of Digital Marketing report released by Adroll revealed that advertising CPM saw a massive 33% decline in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to the first quarter of 2022.

With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that website visitors also increased by 13% in the same time period. This can make ads even more valuable than might have been the case otherwise. Cheaper ads will be seen by a greater number of users, although the data might also be misleading if taken at face value.

The fourth quarter of 2022 saw an abnormally low CPM which dragged the average down. Also, while site visits are certainly looking up, conversion rates saw a decline of 19%. This seems to suggest that fewer users are clicking on ads, and it also explains why CPM might be seeing its lowest levels in a long time.

Low conversion rates are bound to bring down CPM because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up making ads less valuable. However, the numbers still show some strong movement that could give the industry some much needed relief with all things having been considered and taken into account.

With ad costs reaching two year lows, marketers will be looking to capitalize on the current state of the industry. Some experts are predicting that CPM might rise over the course of the rest of the year, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, the cost per mille will still be lower than what was seen during the aftermath of the pandemic in 2021 and 2022.

All in all, the aftershocks that ensued after the multiple obstacles faced by the industry seem to be subsiding somewhat. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for digital ads and the platforms that use them.

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Twitter May Voluntarily Withdraw From EU’s Code Of Practice Over Disinformation

Twitter may opt to voluntarily remove itself from the European Union’s code of Practice as it feels it needs to do a better job at handling disinformation.

For those who might be concerned, well, it does not mean that the firm is quitting Europe as confirmed by one member of the EU yesterday.

The EC was seen stepping up its game and strengthening its code in 2022 and that forced so many firms to set out some routine reports on data and how keen they were to enable advertising revenue. This had been avoided in the past due to threat actors and those spreading disinformation throughout the platform.

Such obligations entailed putting out more details on the figure of political-themed ads and even saw rejections of incidents where manipulation was observed. Now, under the leadership of Elon Musk, we’re seeing the firm put out new signs of quitting that were not seen in the past.

The effort is clearly there and it means there will no longer be any form of meetings the firm will also not be setting out any reports on the matter either.

But that does not free the firm from its legal duties and by that, we mean to say landmark tech rules that happened to be adopted depending on which code of practice had been attached.

They’re not yet moving out of the European region, another EU official said during a statement to the press. But for now, we know that the firm is remaining awfully hush on the news and not providing a lot of comments on the subject.

Violations of such rules in the tech world means costing firms huge fines that go as far as the 6% figure for the world’s turnover.

Firms that signed up for such a code included Alphabet, Meta, TikTok, and software giant Microsoft.

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Twitter Tries To Regain Developers’ Trust By Launching A Costly API Tier For Startups

Elon Musk has been struggling in terms of getting more and more people on board to pay for their Blue Subscription.

While we wouldn’t deem it to be a huge success, it surely did bring in plenty of revenue across the board for the company. But again, those who did not wish to subscribe and attain the exclusive features opted against making any payments.

But now, we’re hearing more news about the company’s API endeavors that are designed to make startup developers happy when Musk first made it public. We're seeing the firm announce another startling decision of unveiling a new feature for developers called the Pro Tier.

It comes at a staggering cost of $5000 each month and falls into one of the most sought-after plans for the firm. But what exactly will it provide is a question on many people’s minds.

The firm says the new tier would be providing a lot of access to the huge number of retrieved tweets and the massive 300k posted ones that are seen on the platform today. In the same way, it would include some filtered streams taking place in real-time while adding another exciting archive search. And the latter would entail a long list of historical tweets.

Last, but not least, it hopes to include three different app IDs and even enable Logins through the app’s access points along the way.

The $5000 pricing plan for firms wishing to experiment and upscale their brands really does leave a huge pricing gap between this and the tier below it, which is priced at just $100 a month.

As one can imagine, the dilemma here is that brands are having trouble making the right decision. They do not know what to do when you’ve got a plan that’s cheap but does not offer much and then on the other extreme, you’ve got a pricier plan offering something that is great but at a cost that’s beyond so many people’s budgets.

Clearly, Twitter should have put in more thought into this and as we speak, people are raising their voices on how the imbalance is very strong and hard to ignore.

The sudden API changers have put out a really bumpy ride as so many developers want greater access to the firm’s data but paying so much has not made them happy with the news and now this.

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Twitter Doubles Down on Videos With New Sidebar Section

It seems like Elon Musk’s big solution to all of Twitter’s woes is to turn it into a video streaming platform as opposed to a pure social media platform. We have already seen this with Facebook and Instagram, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, Twitter’s case is rather different. It’s never been a hub for content like some of its competitors, and that might make the streaming angle a harder sell than might have been the case otherwise.

With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that Twitter is still proceeding undeterred with a brand new section that is being added to the sidebar. Dubbed “videos for you”, this experimental section that Twitter is working on will recommend some of the videos that are trending on the platform.

Visually speaking it seems quite similar to Snapchat’s content hub, although Twitter will work differently by offering long form content with all things having been considered and taken into account. The recent firing of Tucker Carlson and his ensuing decision to start a brand new web series that is based solely on Twitter lends credence to the notion that the platform could cater to a whole new wave of content creators.

What’s more, incoming CEO Linda Yaccarino has considerable experience with starting new streaming platforms as can be seen with the success of Peacock for NBC. Coming up with creative solutions is important for Twitter because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up making up for the loss of advertising revenue that came after Elon Musk’s controversial decisions that altered the landscape of its user base.

Whether or not this move will prove fruitful remains to be seen, and this new section is still in the testing phase. We will have to wait until it gets a wider release to come to any firm conclusions, but from the looks of things, Twitter may very well become a viable alternative to TikTok and YouTube although its content may have a distinct right wing slant to it.

H/T: Nima Owji

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Locked iPhones to Become Smart Home Displays with iOS 17

Technology giant Apple is currently thinking of rolling out the latest update for iPhone users. The company wants to roll out a feature that will allow iPhones to showcase a smart home display with the latest software version. The news was reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in their latest article.

As per the source, the upcoming feature will carry an updated display for the device and will show information including reminders, weather conditions, and any much more. However, it will only be displayed when the device is in locked state. According to Gurman, the update will somewhat be the same as the feature available on identical devices from Amazon. The main objective of rolling this update is to make the ideal phone of any use. To make it easy to read, the company plans to use a dark theme against which light-coloured text will be used.

The update will be part of the widgets. At the time of the iOS 16 release, widgets were introduced as a way of offering chunks of additional information to users, which will always be available on screen.

Currently, only the iPhone is being considered to receive the update, as the widgets are only present on these devices, and iPads still have not received their widgets from the company. In addition to this, other areas, such as the Wallet application and Share Play, are also receiving new updates.

The company aims to update the location service for the Wallet App as well as introduce a journal in which users can type in the thoughts they are having in mind. Similarly, SharePlay, a feature that allows users to watch different entertaining web series while being on FaceTime, will also be receiving a few modifications.

In a previous report from the news company, the tech giant was also working to track the emotional state of their audience with their technology. iPads are currently in line to receive the Health app, which is available for iPhone users.

It is believed that the latest smart display will officially be revealed at the upcoming tech conference to be held in the first week of June 2023.

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