Why Canada Is a Testing Ground for Apps

Developers worldwide are using Canada as a testing ground for apps before rolling them out to other markets

This testing process might be common knowledge among app creators, but the typical mobile user may not realize an app he downloads today has undergone months of testing in Canada.

Global developers have kept an eye on the Great White North, using it as a way to work out bugs and kinks before introducing software elsewhere

"Canada is a good test market for several reasons. The data you get there is reliable and comparable to the other major markets — the U.S., the UK, Denmark and so on — and the country is also of a good size," Thorbjörn Warin, CMO of Finnish gaming company GrandCru, told Mashable"It is big enough to get enough users for reliable data, but also small enough that you don't loose too much by testing there." Read more...