What is the best iPhone analytics offering out there? I've seen Pinchmedia but I'm not sure about it since the default application page says "Last Updated July 2008".
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At this point you may well want to roll your own - on a constrained device do you really want a third party library taking up an unknown amount of limited network bandwidth and processing power?
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner
2009-01-02 07:40:45
Frankly that would be dumb. These packages are written by people with more experience of optimizing for bandwidth/memory/cpu than 99.99% of iPhone developers.There's also a time investment needed for this - particularly for any useful type of web interface. Spend the time on your app instead.
Andrew Grant
2009-01-02 08:19:54
I think the down-votes have been a bit unfair. In some case you can't trust a third party.
hgpc
2010-08-09 21:58:15
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I've tried several packages and Pinch Media is by far the best. I don't know where that July 2008 date comes from, they've been releasing updates regularly and are super-responsive to feedback and questions emailed to their support people. Whether by coincidence or not, several of my suggestions have made it into the current Pinch libraries
Aside from the excellent support, the reason I prefer pinch is that they seemed to be the only package that updates several times a day - usually once per hour. This is great if you're trying new advertising techniques, or just like obsessing over your sales figures (as every developer does at first :)
On the downside there are two issues I have with Pinch - their website can be a little clunky and isn't very iPhone friendly (ironic!), and at times they've had problems where stat updates aren't available due to hardware problems. I also wish they had an "overview" for all your applications.
It's worth pointing out that all of the analytics libraries are extremely easy to build into your application and all work with both the simulator and hardware so it's extremely easy to evaluate them to find the one you like best. It's even possible to use several at once - though I would only do this for testing.
Andrew Grant
2009-01-02 08:16:55
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Raspu
2010-02-01 19:30:59
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Nowadays Pinch Media has been merged into Flurry. Flurry is a decent choice.
Seppo Sade
2010-07-02 22:22:55