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Which US State is Dominated by Android?

Recently we talked about Android’s position in the world, and we found out this platform had conquered almost the half of the world. Now other analysts decided to discover which mobile OS dominates in each state of the U.S. You certainly guessed Android is the leader, but let’s look at the map below, it’s very interesting.

The survey is done by Jumptap, which introduced a map showing which states have more Android activity versus iOS activity across its network. Generally, the U.S. has one of the largest smartphone markets in the world with about 83 million users. So, Android dominates in the Southern and Western states while Midwest and New England states’ users prefer iOS. Oddy, the New York state is neutral.

Android market share is 38 percent in the U.S. while Apple’s iOS covers only 33 percent (according to June’s data). I can also introduce other numbers received from comScore: Their research showed Android market share is 40 percent versus Apple’s 26.6 percent. We’ve got such a difference because Jumptap counted the iPod Touches, too, while comScore took into account only smartphones.

The fact there are more Android smartphones than iOS-based ones was known initially, but Apple performs better for advertisers. This means the 0.78 percent of mobile ads on the Apple’s products, including the iPads and the iPod Touches, are clicked on (against Android’s 0.47 percent). It’s interesting Symbian has 0.50 percent, so we can assume the number of produced phones doesn’t mean everything.

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August 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Google is Alone Against All in Patent War

Patents are created to protect small companies from huge ones, but, as the latest events show, this can turn into a big trouble for big manufacturers. If earlier patent wars were really chaotic, now it seems all companies have united to shut Google down. It’s not fair, but it seems to be legal.

Google has decided to talk about this more freely calling it a “hostile organized campaign.” Google’s mobile operating system, Android, is very popular nowadays, and other manufacturers that fight to find their own place under the Sun, can’t sit quietly while Google conquers the whole market. At the first sight it seems all those lawsuits against Google or other companies don’t mean anything, but as Google CLO says, they are looking for different ways to defend themselves from these legal attacks.

There are several companies that make Google worry more than others — Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and others. Take as an example the patent of unlocking the screen by sliding an unlock bar across it. I can’t say why Apple decided the idea of this technology belonged to it. Anyway, there are many disputable patents that sometimes become ridiculous.

Several days ago HTC filed a lawsuit against Apple in the UK (in the U.S. it was done earlier). HTC is not Google, but the Taiwanese company and other companies like it can suffer by inertia if Google suffers. That’s why I think these wars will not last for too long — other companies cooperating with Google will do what they can to defend it.

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August 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android Conquers Half of the World

Canalys tracked the smartphone markets in many countries and came to a conclusion that Android has already conquered 48 percent total market share worldwide. This is an absolute dominance, but not everything is in a favor of Google.

The survey showed Android is the number one platform in 35 of 56 countries. Apple is only in the second position with 19 percent even after selling 20.3 million iPhones. Obviously, Android is the main operating system for many smartphone manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung, and this is why Google’s platform is this popular.

Now, to eliminate Google’s dominance, Microsoft, RIM and Apple combined forces with three other companies to outbid Google at an auction for Nortel’s wireless patents. This can become a headache for Google, since if this “pact” wins the lawsuit, the software giant will have to pay huge fees.

No matter how far Android goes, all these numbers will change soon, as iOS becomes more and more popular, not to mention Windows Phone OS. Though Google had started developing Android from 2005 and introduced it to mobile manufacturers back in 2008, we can say Android became really popular only during the last year. So there is still much work to do…

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August 2, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Adobe Flash Build 4.5 for Android

Nowadays Adobe is tightly cooperating with Android, though its “relations” with Apple are not as bad as some people think (after Apple’s CEO Steve jobs announced the Adobe Flash is too buggy to run on their mobile platform). Anyway, Adobe continues to provide its products to all those manufacturers that wish to cooperate with them. This is evidenced by the new version of Adobe Flash Builder allowing developers to create apps for Android, iOS and even BlackBerry OS.

The mobile market is blooming now, and it is conditioned by the fact that each manufacturer offers its own app market where one can find apps created by third-party developers. The Adobe Flash Builder is the best tool for all Android apps. Of course, it is not offered only for Android, but today this platform is the most popular one, and it is logical to assume there will be many developers wishing to create apps especially for Android Market, plus there is a huge difference between the principles of locating apps in the Android Market or in the App Store.

The Adobe Flash Build 4.5 is available for quite an affordable price — the Standard version of Flash Builder 4.5 for $249 and the Premium version for $699. I guess you’ll agree with me, it’s a very cheap price taking into account the fact that the developers can earn millions on their apps.

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June 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Can Android Market Catch Up App Store?

Android OS is the most popular mobile platform nowadays. That’s a fact! Therefore its app market must also be the most popular one. Unfortunately here we meet a problem, which is Google’s headache actually. The Android Market is growing swiftly, but it doesn’t mean it has the fastest rate of development. Looking at the number of applications in the market we can assume it will become bigger than App Store by the end of the year.

Well, every day developers add a number of new apps to the market, but a huge number of them has been pulled out. Can it catch up App Store with such a pace?

Android Market has about 300.000 apps while App Store offers more than 500.000 apps at the moment. But Android Market’s attrition rate is twice more than App Store’s indicator. Statistics show that about 32 percent of all apps stored in Android Market has been removed by different reasons while only 16 percent of App Store apps have been pulled out. One doesn’t have to be a mathematical genius to calculate that Apple has removed about 80.000 apps and widgets, and 95.000 apps were removed from Android Market.

Probably the main reason of this is Apple’s strategy of monetizing apps, I mean Apple requires $100 development fee and provides better platform for business, while Google introduces a better venue for experimentation. As you see Apple and Google come up with different kind of app markets — one of them is very comfortable to promote new apps, the other provides a good environment to make money.

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June 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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