“Yahoo put of lot of effort and investment toward presenting a new Yahoo to the world in 2013, and a lot of that has hinged on improving its mobile business,” Ingrid Lunden reports for TechCrunch.
“There have been significant updates to old apps; over a dozen (out of a total of 28) mobile-related acquisitions to pick up talent, technology and products; and tests for what Yahoo should focus on next,” Lunden reports. “But even as it has managed to grow its mobile audience this year, Yahoo is exiting 2013 on a mobile low note: not one of its apps is in the top 100 chart on the iTunes App Store.”
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I find this sad as many of the Yahoo apps are top notch. Their weather app is my favorite weather app for both iPhone and iPad because they have most of the information I want in a beautiful format and best of all with NO ADS. MDN is a great source to go to for Apple related news, but their utter blindness to anything not Apple is frustrating to say the least. This coming from a user of Macs since the early 90s.
It is Mac Daily news…… Lol
I’ve been using the Weatherbug app since the iPhone 3G, the only Yahoo app I use is Fantasy Football.
Maybe if they published a Marissa photo album as an app?
Yeah, modeling Victoria’s Secrets lingerie! Oh baby!
Weather app only.
Got their weather app on recommendation from, possibly, Cult of Mac, but don’t quote me. Anyway, at the time I was unaware Yahoo even did any iOS apps, and, I’m still unaware of any others. Obviously not well marketed, announced, or managed (assuming they’re any good….)
Their weather app is awesome. They recently made it universal too, with some slick visual effects when run on an iPad.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-weather/id628677149?mt=8
I guess a CEO’s good looks aren’t everything!
Yahoo Finance on the iPad and Yahoo Weather on my iPhone. If Yahoo’s apps opened with the above picture of Marissa they’d be in the top 10.
He weather app is best in class, but it takes up an awesone amount of ram.
Apple’s Weather app is powered by Yahoo data. I was disappointed when I found that a city that I was visiting in the north of BC showed that sunset occurred before sunrise. (10 AM and 10 PM for sunset and sunrise respectively.) Several cities nearby showed the same results with minor variations in the times.
Weather and Finance. How can Wearher not be in the top 100? I thought it came on every iPhone.
I prefer the Yahoo NFL app to the actual NFL app. Easier to find info.
I use their email client and Yahoo! Weather. I really love Yahoo!’s servicies, but I feel that Yahoo! Is slowly losing popularity with us Apple fans. There was a rumor that Yahoo! Was planning on buying Tizen and building their own mobile platform from that. If that happened, many peoole here would scream “traitor”! Then would say Yahoo is as bad as Google, even though they make quality products. I hate to see the reaction when Yahoo TV becomes a much more mature platform. People were alreadys screaming rip-off when Yahoo Widgets was released in 2005…
I agree that the Weather app from Yahoo is the best one. I truly hope they are on their way back.
After reading all the MDN comments, I downloaded the Yahoo Weather app for my iPhone, and all I can say is Wow!
I’m not sure why I was unaware of it, but it really is a great app. I just uninstalled the “TWC: The Weather Channel” app I was using. Which oddly enough “felt” like it was giving me more information, but in reality it was simply more cluttered.
Welcome to the real world, Neo.
Thanks for showing her photos again!!!
Weather and Sports.
I use their weather app. It has a clean straightforward design I find easy to use.
Flickr. I’m only now starting to use it extensively because I can upload directly from photos on my pad or iPhone, and log in from my Facebook account. Prior to that, logging in was a royal PITA, and I’ve been using it since 2006.
Other than Flickr, I can’t think of a single other Yahoo app that I use.
I use the FlickR app a lot and it is one of the nicest photo apps to use, am surprised FlickR is not mentioned in the article or here in the comments section. Going to check the yahoo weather app now, always use the default apple weather app and it’s been okay
The Yahoo Sports ap is robust with information. I’m all in for that!
Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo Finance are all top-notch.
Common Lunden, Jobs didn’t turn Apple around overnight. Give it a little time.
Why not write about what she is actually doing to build a foundation rather than just point to a list. Anyone with a keyboard knows how to point to a list.
It really not a fair comparison. Yahoo is well baked into iOS 7 in places like weather. I use a lot of Yahoo services, just not their apps. I use Flickr over what Google has. If Apple was to buy a company, Yahoo would be my suggestion.