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Android to Be on 48 Percent of All Smartphones Launched until 2017

People like numbers but not always the given data correspond to the reality because the surveys made by firms are based on the trend of the previous years, while the tech world doesn’t obey any rules. Of course, there is some regularity but no one can predict how the market will change in the coming year. In my opinion, London based research firm Ovum has introduced data that will never prove true. Anyway, my duty is to make you aware of it.

Ovum’s principal analyst, Adam Leach made a statement, according to which, 1.7 billion smartphones will be shipped in 2017. Moreover, the smartphone shipments will grow at a 24.9% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) but the overall growth will be provided also with the help of feature phones. The analyst says the entire mobile phone market will grow at 6.3% thanks to demand from emerging markets.

The research firm has also computed Android-based smartphones will take 48% of the entire market, while Apple’s iPhone will own 26.8% of it. Moreover, the firm has already calculated Windows Phone OS will be on 13% of all smartphones launched until 2017, while Canadian RIM will take the 10% of the smartphone market.

Honestly, I’d like Android to keep its positions but seeing how RIM is going down, and what stir Nokia has made due to its Lumia series handsets, it’s difficult to believe Android will lead the next five years.

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May 4, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Ovum Sure Android will Outrun Apple

We can freely state now that the smartphone market is dominated by two brands: that is Apple iOS and Google Android. And the competition battle between these two is not limited to the devices and only. Fans as well wage “bloody war” on each other. An Android fan cannot understand how one can buy such an expensive and “overrated” device as the iPhone. The iOS fans in their turn think Android users are lunatics to trust such an “experimental and unreliable” technology as Android.  The truth is that Android slightly lags behind iOS in statistics.

Now the London based research firm Ovum announced sensational information claiming that Android is going to be the dominating platform for developers in the next 12 months. Only for developers? Does this exclude ordinary folk then? The research firm also states the developers are going to work less with Java and Flash technologies, preferring more HTML5 standard to build cross-platform apps.

As to other stuff, Ovum said developers are getting more interested in Windows Phone platform and also RIM OS (this one is really interesting). Ovum analyst Adam Leach said, “The growing momentum behind Windows Phone indicates that Microsoft has managed to convince developers that its platform is worthy of investment; its challenge now is to persuade consumers.”

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January 24, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Android More Popular on Chitika Network

People use various statistics to find out whether their beloved brand has outrun its main competitor or no. There are plenty of statistics tools there on the web and if you seek long enough, you will eventually stumble upon one satisfying your expectancy and crowning your favorite device or app with the first place. So is with Android fans. Using ad impressions at Chitika’s online ad network, there is an impression made that Android indeed outran iOS in popularity at least last December (in November IOS was invincible).

This can be described with the gift period in December, but whatever it is Android increased its shares on Chitika ad impressions to 51.6 percent, while iOS claimed 46.5 percent. There can be no doubt already that Android’s popularity is set on a train with an enormous speed. As Andy Rubin said in its twitter page, there were 3.7 million Android handsets activated only during Christmas weekend. Apple, however, is confident this excitement over Android will significantly decrease once the Holiday atmosphere is vanished.

One fact, which draws customers to Android, is the free apps. There can be no sure answer whether there are more Android or iOS apps, but Android relies on its base of free apps to gain iOS customers in due time.

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January 11, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Microsoft may Develop Xbox Live App for Android

When in December Microsoft launched an Xbox Live application for Apple’s iOS, many wondered what this could mean. We are accustomed to viewing these two companies as dire competitors and it is not easy to see any sign of cooperation. We want to view manufacturers and their brands as separated as possible, but now it emerges everything can get quite mixed up, especially when Microsoft had released an Xbox Live also for Windows Phone OS. Take this as globalization in the world of smartphones and gaming devices.

Microsoft posted a job offering, based on which it becomes apparent Microsoft plans to develop a similar app for Android OS. Very well, but what about Google, will it accept Microsoft offer, for it is evident this is not a Good Samaritan move, but a very subtle marketing strategy. Here is the part of the job announcement, “As a software development engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to help define and design the experiences for the project, you will get to work with a team of energetic and talented developers, and you will have the luxury to work with all sorts of mobile devices to create the official Xbox LIVE mobile experiences.”

One guess is that some Android radical fans are not going to cheer this move, as they view possible penetration into Android OS of everything non-Android as some kind of a leprous disease. Good news for all true gamers, though.

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January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments More

The Share of Android and iOS in the World

The 2011 is approaching its finish line and not great analysis is needed to state there are two brand names in the smartphone world occupying top positions: Google Android and Apple’s iOS. To get a more precise picture, Flurry analytics have made a research and found out that from 200 million US smartphone users, the 55 percent (109 million users) own either an Android or an iOS device. As to the percentage these two occupy worldwide, it makes up 41 percent.

China comes second after the US with 35 million Android or iOS users. The UK is the next (17 million users), followed by France, Germany and Japan each with 10 million users. To make the research possible, Flurry has tracked the usage of 140,000 apps over 30 days. Flurry has examined also the ownership of either an Android or an Apple smartphone according to the age or the social class, using country specific data from International Monetary Fund (IMF). And even that is not all, as Flurry also revealed countries most prone to grow as related to the mentioned two brands, and also the most mature markets. All information is presented in a chart form and can be accessed on Flurry’s blog.

This information will be interesting not only for ordinary users, but also for manufactures and carriers, who will now have raw material to adjust their strategies for the upcoming year.

December 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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