Product Teardown 12 — Monetization Strategies in Mobile Games/Apps

This is not a teardown for specific products, but a summary of common monetization methods in mobile games.

Many articles has been written about monetization strategies of mobile games…

Product Teardown 08 — Same Core Loop, Different Game Play

— How Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Empires and Allies, and Dominations create different gameplay experience based on the same core loop.

Product Teardown 14 — Yelp and DianPing

Yelp and Dianping are two great apps that help people discover local business, such as restaurant, bars, gas stations. yelp focuses on US market while Dianping dominates China market. In this post, I will do a product teardown on these two apps, focusing on…

Product Teardown 05 — Clash of Clan

A few months ago, I did a high level product evaluation on Clash of Clan, focusing on core loop, social mechanics, and so on. Now I’d like to do a deep dive into the product design of Clan of Clans, particularly focusing on retention, monetization and social elments.

Product Teardown 10 — Monetization Structure of Marvel Avengers Alliance by Tencent

I am not a Marvel fun. Actually the only marvel movie I watched is The Avenger. I do, however, play a lot marvel theme games. One of them is Marvel — The Avengers Alliance, developed and…

Product Teardown 09 — A Comparison between WeFire(全民突击) and Crisis Action(全民枪战)

FPS(First Person Shooter) mobile games have become very popuplar in China since last year. It’s a fast growing segment which attract a large user base. There are two games that are doing pretty…

Product Teardown 11- A close-up look at Samsung’s new $99 Gear VR ( Originally Published by The Verge)

The newly announced Gear VR is a milestone for Samsung and Oculus. It’s the first virtual reality headset either has released without the safety net of an…

Product Teardown 13 — Bing Mobile App

— a comparison with Mobile Baidu

I do this teardown for one purpose — to see how these two apps approach the same problem in a different way. I will focus on Bing, but with Mobile Baidu as a benchmark.

Product Teardown 06 — Thunder Fighter

Thunder fighter is a flight shoot game published by Tencent last year. It’s a popular game and today it is still a top-2o mobile game in China App Store.

In this article, we will look at some of the success factors of this game. We will…

9 apps that can change the way you work

Although we all fume at our phones and computers sometimes, technology really is incredible. It has changed the way we work, making it faster, easier and cheaper than ever to do business on a global scale.