While niche apps like Grindr and other discovery apps may get all the press, Plentyoffish surpassed 300 million monthly visits to their free iPhone and Android apps in January 2012.
Not exact matches
While some investors have raised their eyebrows about the sustainability of mushrooming live streaming
apps that secured less than 10 million downloads in China last year, the wanghong business itself is getting bigger and is now targeting for content - hungry
niche audiences.
While Ms. Spira recommends that
app - using singles tap into more mainstream platforms too, because they tend to have a broader user base, she said
niche apps can make a lot of sense.
While the dating market has essentially built the
app's user base, Tinder execs feel that moving outside of this
niche to include a larger portion of the population will reap some obvious benefits.
While the music
niche in dating is not overly saturated, there are a couple of big players, namely London - based Tastebuds.fm, which this year launched their mobile
app.
While niche dating
apps have become commonplace, plus - size people remain largely cut - off from the dating scene until now.
RIM lost its foothold
niche that would help accelerate it,
while still developing the key
apps needed, such as email.
This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to
niche specific bookselling
while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or
app they choose.
What now remains to be seen is if these new changes are enough to draw people away from the Nexus 7 and the rest of the Android tablets on the market
while continuing to carve a growing
niche for itself with its integration of Amazon Kindle,
App Store, Prime, MP3 and Instant Video.