Poor Mobile App Performance Could Stifle Retail Sales

Mobile will generate one-quarter of retail sales by 2014, and the apps from which consumers make purchases will generate multiterabytes of real-time data. But getting apps to work well remains a major challenge. Android may take the majority of market share, but apps built on the Google OS crash more often compared with Apple — 33 percent vs. 23 percent, respectively, according to the Xtreme Labs Retail Apps Report released Monday, which provides insight into how the top 100 U.S. retailers fare in the mobile space.