Finding the right product to provide an entrance to your home is an important and extensive process. In addition to finding windows and doors that fit into the same physical space as their predecessors, consumers want windows and doors that fit their homes stylistically and functionally. Fortunately for iPad users, the Marvin Windows and Doors app, created on Appcelerator Titanium, provides a mobile solution to finding the windows and doors you need. Marvin Windows and Doors recently collaborated with Martin Williams to create a digital version of their product catalog that includes features to aid consumers find the right product for them.

A little over a week ago we tweeted at Titanium mobile app developers to send links of their Titanium apps to our @AppcShowcase account and be automatically entered to win $100 iTunes card in addition to some fresh AppC Swag.  Titanium developers blew us away with nearly 50 awesome apps that were incredibly diverse and creative.  After downloading the apps and testing each of them ourselves, we’ve declared the app contest winner to be MyPrice, an app that provides tools for freelancers to calculate exactly how much to charge for their independent professional services.  We found MyPrice’s innovative mobile-use case, implementation of cloud services and multi-form factor support, as well as the positive reviews it has garnered from its worldwide distribution all compelling reasons to announce it as our first Titanium App Contest Winner.

Apple recently announced its Q3 2012 earnings and, depending on who you asked, it was either great news or slightly disappointing.  On the disappointing side, Apple surprisingly fell short of Wall
Street expectations pulling in $35 billion in revenue compared to the predicted $37.2 billion, and selling just 26 million iPhones to Wall Street’s prediction of 29 million mobile devices.  The Cupertino company did however manage to completely shatter records of iPad sales, shipping out over 17 million tablets between April and June, representing an 84% unit increase from the same quarter of last year.  What prompted such a spike for the revolutionary tablet? Apple CFO Steve Oppenheimer points to adoption from enterprise, and according to the Appcelerator/IDC Q2 2012 Survey, Titanium mobile app developers resoundingly agree.

The iTunes App Store premiered with just over 500 apps the summer of 2008, just days before the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies.  This marked the first time third-party apps were available for the then year-old iPhone. Four years later, as the world prepares for the London Games, we find ourselves in the midst of an exploding mobile app market with over 650,000 apps available in the App Store and over 30 billion downloaded.  Mobile has certainly made tremendous strides, and recurrent global events like the Olympics give us a chance to reflect on just how much our lives have changed in such a short amount of time.  But the Olympics don’t just mark time for mobile.  The two-week sprint of events with 26 sports, 17,000 athletes, and 200 participating countries makes for the perfect mobile-use case. A prime example of such a case is the London 2012 app.  Built on Titanium, London 2012 provides a simple, comprehensive way to stay on top of every Olympic event without the threat of information overload.