Product Teardown

Product Teardown 20— Performance of smartphone camera

People use different kinds of metrics/criteria when evaluating smartphone cameras, such as speed, performance, photo quality, modes, easy to use, etc. However, people are often talking about different things when they use the same words…

Product Teardown 19 — Clock on Apple, Google and Smartisan

Honestly speaking, I am not sure I am going to write a post for clock app. It seems not a good investment of time. Clock app is a simple app and people use it quite often. Also, you don’t hear a lot of complains for clock. After…

Product Teardown 18 — Call/Contact/Messaging Apps on Apple, Google and Smartisan

It’s very obvious that for a phone, the killer app is making phone calls. People mainly use three apps to make their calls: call, contact and messaging apps. These three apps are small but…

Product Teardown 17 — Calendar on Apple, Google and Smartisan

This post is about calendar app. Before writing this, I never realize that calendar is one of the most important apps on my phone. It’s such an important productivity app that I cannot even live without it.

Product Teardown 16 — Calculators on Alcatel, Apple, Google, Smartisan and Xiaomi

In this series, I am going to write a few articles about product teardown of utility apps on smartphone, such as Calculator / Calendar /Call /Camera /Clock /Contact /File Manager /Gallery…

Product Teardown 15 — Notes Under iOS 9.3 : Why It Sucks and How to Improve It

One of the new features that Apple brought through iOS 9.3 update is secure notes — you can lock your private notes and use passcode or fingerprint to unlock them.

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 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 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…