Shane Schick

Shane Schick is a writer, editor and speaker who helps people create value with information technology. Besides editing FierceDeveloper, he is a technology columnist with <a href="http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/author/shane-schick/">Yahoo Finance</a>, and the editor of <a href="http://commercelab.ca/">CommerceLab</a> and <a href="http://expertip.ca/">Allstream’s expertIP</a> online community . Shane was previously <a href="http://itworldcanada.com/">IT World Canada’s</a> Vice-President, Content & Community (Editor-in-Chief), leading a digital-first strategy that included a transition from print publications to online portals and magazines. Shane regularly speaks to CIOs and other technology professionals about how they can contribute to organizational success and comments on technology news and stories for a variety of TV programs.

Stories by Shane Schick

PlayRaven, Etermax and Maxplay offer ideas that could help more indies do work that gets noticed amid a sea of competitors

by Shane Schick

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Mobile game developers have all kinds of heroes and role models who have shown them how to be successful, but Lasse Seppänen may be one of the first to publicly salute the founder of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton, as an inspiration.

What I learned by editing FierceDeveloper

by Shane Schick

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Only now can the truth be told: I've never played Angry Birds. The same goes for most mobile games, other than the ones I've had to help my three children try to figure out. I do not own an Apple Watch, and have no intention of buying a similar wearable anytime soon. The apps I check most often are the same big monoliths that everyone else uses: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and (because I do a lot of reading) Pocket. How on Earth did a guy like me get a gig running FierceDeveloper?

Mobile analytics firm looks at the state of wearables and the impact of WatchOS on the developer ecosystem

by Shane Schick

Monday, December 21, 2015

Apple Watch apps have surpassed the 15,000 mark, according to App Annie. The marketing analytics firm took a broader look at the company's wearable ecosystem following the release of its first smart watch and most recent watchOS 2 platform update.

The Silicon Valley startup may be poised to dominate the enterprise app space, based on social media reaction

by Shane Schick

Monday, December 21, 2015

It's become nearly as popular as e-mail within some businesses, but a new directory and funding program may soon make Slack equally appealing to app developers.

What the end of Facebook's Creative Labs might really mean for its app ecosystem

by Shane Schick

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

You can have one of the most successful mobile apps and in the world and it can still be hard to develop a wider portfolio that gains as wide an audience or monetizes well. Just ask Facebook.

Remote display plugin for popular engine could bring a lot of great mobile gaming experiences to TV screens

by Shane Schick

Monday, December 14, 2015

Android developers have probably been asking themselves this question for months: tvOs is great and all, but why should those operating in Apple's ecosystem have all the fun? Google's remote plugin for Unity on Google Cast may be considered a thoughtful response to that question.

How to take Apple's (possible) App Store self-promotion in stride

by Shane Schick

Friday, December 4, 2015

It's an ambitious development studio with a growing collection of apps in areas like productivity and education, but if only it could improve its odds of being discovered in the App Store. That may sound like the dilemma of most studios, but of course it's a different story when the apps in question were designed by Apple itself.

The popular programming language arrives on Github, sparking responses that range from incredulous to euphoric

by Shane Schick

Thursday, December 3, 2015

It may not have garnered much consumer attention compared to the latest iPhones or even the most recent version of iOS, but Apple's recent decision to make its Swift programming language open source has both shocked and delighted app developers.

The real iPad Pro problems Apple (and maybe even developers) may be overlooking

by Shane Schick

Monday, November 30, 2015

I think there's almost a collective feeling of embarrassment when an Apple product flops. Isn't this supposed to be the company that can do no wrong? Well, there was the Apple Cube, the Xserve enterprise gear and a few other misses, but the case of the iPad Pro -- whose fate is still up in the air, I should add -- may be a bit unique.

Yahoo's mobile analytics unit shows that trends toward larger screen sizes are even higher outside of North America

by Shane Schick

Monday, November 30, 2015

App sessions growth in Europe is 12 percent higher than those in the U.S. based on data tracked over the past year by Flurry. The Yahoo-owned service recently published it's first "deep dive" based on 725,000 apps across 564 million devices in Europe.