Apple Opens App Design and Development Accelerator in China (techcrunch.com) 20
Apple has opened a design and development accelerator in Shanghai -- its first for China -- to help local developers create better apps as the iPhone maker looks to scale its services business in one of its key overseas markets. From a report: At the accelerator, Apple has begun to hold regular lectures, seminars and networking sessions for developers, the company said this week. It is similar to an accelerator it opened in Bangalore about two years ago. In India, where Apple has about half a million app developers, the accelerator program has proven crucially useful, more than three dozen developers who have enrolled for the program have told TechCrunch over the years. Participation in the accelerator is free of cost. Apple said more than 2.5 million developers from greater China, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong, actively build apps for its platform. These developers have earned more than $29 billion through App Store sales. More than 15% of Apple's revenue comes from greater China, according to official figures.
Do they have any in America? (Score:1)
Or do we just get their inflated prices?
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God forbid!!!!
What do you think Apple and Google are? (Score:1)
They make jewelry and spyware too. But they definitely count as whatever the fuck that ambiguity trainwreck of a headline intends to mean.
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Doesn't make much business sense.
Most Apps are American Made. and are Targets towards Americans.
Apple wants to sell more iDevices in China, so its needs a good set of Chinese Apps, in Which Apple then will get a cut of the action of the additional sales.
Americans see the Growth of the Chinese Economy and we go OMG what are we doing wrong...
However China being about the same size as America, with the worlds largest population should in theory be the worlds top economy by a big margin... However what is China
Yes they do (Score:4, Interesting)
Apple has one focused on women [apple.com] owned businesses (I don't think only women can attend the development camp, as they allow three employees per company).
Beyond that there are a lot of free iOS Deve camps around the U.S. pretty regularly and all WWDC videos are free to watch, so there's not as much of a need for Apple to provide accelerators here.
The camps are really useful though to get familiar with getting through all of the steps needed to actually build and deploy a real app. Once you know all those figuring out how to improve the app is more straightforward.
Re: Do they have any in America? (Score:1)
You would have one in America if the A-rabs and snotty Germans didn't want to sit around sniffing their used toilet paper.
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There's no real need - Americans develop a good majority of the apps already, plus with WWDC and all that being held in the US, Apple doesn't need to. And there are plenty of small accelerator companies out there as well - maybe none run out of a house like Silicon Valley but still all the same.
And it's interesting they're doing it this late - they opened one in Europe (in Italy I believe) a few years ago.
Playing the long game (Score:2)
Accelerators like this are a great way to have higher quality apps appear on your platform, a really smart idea.
Given that it is free I wonder how they decide who gets to join if they have more applicants than the can handle (which seems likely)? It seems like you'd want the people who were most serious about producing a real application.
so much for ethics apple ... (Score:1)
rich people will do anything to get richer ... even support political slavery