Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Androids Are Multiplying More Quickly Than People

Friday, January 20th, 2012

In spite of gloomy forecasts of fantasts, our planet is not likely to be conquered by computers. However, the mobile platform Android is already making confident steps towards the world domination. In his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Robert Kyncl, the head of YouTube portal, said that the number of daily activations of Android devices already exceeds the number of daily newborns. Kyncl stated that if the situation will develop like that, the producers will have to start searching new clients on other planets.many-androids

Mobile devices had no problems in becoming a leader. According to the statistics, the birth rate has been going down for the last three decades while the volumes of portable device production are constantly growing. The only restraining factor for the manufacturers is the level of demand for Android smartphones.

The Apple Corporation doesn’t share the similar statistics but one can presuppose that the circulations of Android devices released in great numbers from Samsung to Motorola exceeded the official figure of 250 mln iOS activations (including iPod, iPhone and iPads).

At the same time, mobile development specialists try to keep up with these tendencies and create more and more mobile devices for all platforms.

Google Musical Service Now in iPhone and iPad

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Google allowed the access to its musical service Music Beta for the owners of mobile devices based on iOS.

In comparison with the Android devices that have their own application Music Beta, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can interact with this service via the interface of the Safari browser. The users will be able to play music and view the lists of tracks, albums and singers. The playback will continue even if you close Safari.music beta

Google presented its own musical service in May at the mobile application development conference. Till September, Music Beta had been available only for the computers and mobile devices based on the Android operating system. As it is clear from the name, Music Beta is now being used in the beta version only: the access to the service is carried out via invitations and only from the US territory.

Music Beta users can upload on Google servers up to 20,000 tracks from their own collections. One can listen to these tracks in the streaming mode from other computers and mobile devices. In comparison with Apple that has obtained the permission from the musical companies to launch such services as iCloud and iTunes Match, before starting Music beta, Google didn’t signed any agreements with the representatives of the music industry.

Although, as I have mentioned above, this service is available for the US only, mobile phone application developers will try their best and make this service available for all.

Advertising in iPhone and iPad Went Down in Value

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

According to Bloomberg, Apple has reduced the cost of advertising in the mobile advertising system (iAd). The minimal price for participating in the iAd is now $300,000. In July 2010 when the advertising system was launched, the price was starting from $1 mln. The first discount for adverts Apple made in February having reduced the price up to $500,000.

Having reduced the price, Apple hopes to return several biggest clients that have left for the companies-competitors, informed Bloomberg, such as Citigroup and the American retail network J.C. Penney Company. The analytics interviewed by the magazine informed that apart from the high price the former iAd clients were not satisfied with the fact that adverts were seen only by the owners of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

The representative of Apple, Natalie Kerris, said that for one year of the iAd existence about one hundred advertising campaigns have been conducted in seven countries. For the last month about 20 advertisers have been used the services of iAd, including Walt Disney Company, AT&T and the insurance company Geico.

The advertising system iAd from Apple was announced in April 2010. The basis for iAd was the mobile advertising operator Quattro Wireless, which was purchased by Steve Jobs in 2010. The main competitor of iAd at the market is the advertising service Google AdMob.

With the help of iAd, advertisers can place their adverts inside iPhone, iPod touch and iPad software applications. Mobile apps developers get 60 % of the profit from advertising and 40% goes to Apple.

Gartner Reviewed Global Forecast on IT expenses

Friday, July 8th, 2011

The analytical company Gartner has updated its forecast on global expenses on information technologies this year and has stated that they will probably increase by 7.1% up to 3.7 bln dollars. The growing expenses on the migration into the cloud computing as well as the integration of new IT services and software development is likely to become the main driven force.

Earlier Gartner forecasted the growth of expenses by 5.6% up to 3.4 bln dollars. According to Richard Gordon, Vice-President on R&D of the company, the growth of expenses will be observed in 2012 as well.

IT_costs952The expenses on cloud services will reach 89 bln dollars. However, cloud services are expected to present the sphere that will attract many other trends as well. By the year 2015, Gartner is expecting the expenses on cloud services will reach 177 bln dollars.

The expenses on telecommunication solutions will grow up to 2.1 bln dollars, which means the increase by 6.9% in comparison with the previous year. Thus, we are likely to expect that mobile software programming will develop as well and we’ll see many new cutting edge solutions in the nearest future.

Traffic consumption by smartphone users doubled

Monday, June 27th, 2011

waze-4phonesThe Nielsen company has evaluated the consumption of internet traffic by smartphone users on various mobile platforms.
In the first quarter the average amount of downloaded traffic was about 435 Мb. Just for comparison, a year before this figure was about 230 Мb. Android users have showed the biggest web activity – they download 582 Мb of information monthly. They are followed by iPhone users (492 Мb) and Windows Phone 7 users (314Mb).

The Nielsen’s statistics is based on the analysis of mobile phone bills of about 65,000 users. In 2010 nearly 305 mln smartphones controlled by various mobile phone operating systems were sold worldwide. This year the growth is expected to increase by 55% – up to 472 mln items and by the year 2015 this figure will have reached 1 bln items.

What do users download? In a word, everything. If you look at the mobile application market, you’ll see that iphone and Android phone developers can satisfy all your needs and requirements, no matter how strange or complicated they can be. Mobile Phone Applications Development has entered the new stage when all our wishes can be realized.

Sony presented the added reality technology for video games

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

I guess this information can be really interesting for each software development company. Sonny has announced and presented the Smart AR system that allows virtual objects and images to become parts of the surrounding reality. It is suitable for smartphones and portable gaming consoles.

In contrast to many other similar systems, Smart AR doesn’t apply the GPS navigation and special markers for defining where to place the virtual object in the real world and how it should be moved. Instead of this the object recognition technique is used. gamsonypinkbear530

At first, Smart AR identifies the object from the computer game or application considering its outlines. The system also tracks its movements and orientation in the virtual reality. At the same time, the approximate 3D map of the room is built based on the differences in snapshots which are taken at various angles during the movement of the mobile device camera.

As a result, the 3D model of the computer character can walk on the table in the user’s room in response to his commands and actions. Of course, to see this, you have to look at the table via the screen of the portable console or a smartphone.

This new technology can guarantee that software developers for iPhone will apply it for creating various cutting edge apps for smartphone and not only.

Qwiki: new app in the App Store

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

iPad application developers have created a new application for iPad and presented it in the App Store. It is intended to change the people’s attitude towards getting encyclopedic knowledge. Qwiki, a sort of visual Wikipedia, provides a user with an easy and interactive way of exploring the world via media presentations and using interactive maps.

The application in many cases repeats the website of the project offering users to get acquainted with the biographies of famous people, monumenqikits, and wonders of the world or exotic animals. All the information is connected with hundreds of places on the map of the world and is presented in the form of presentations with excellent photo and video materials.

After viewing, you can share your favorite information with your friends by e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The presentation material at Qwiki contains links to other resources related to the given topic as well as additional information and images in Wikipedia, Google, Fotopedia and YouTube. All it makes Qwiki much higher than other Wikipedia resources.

Soon we’ll see similar Android application development and iPhone applications.

Choice of mobile application development platform (part 1)

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

At the beginning of one’s career, every mobile application developer faces the choice – what platform to choose? At present the number of mobile platforms can scare everybody – Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian.

To start with, you have to define the main aims of the project – the commercial software development, amateur development (open source applications)- as well as the end users.

From the point of view of monetarization (commercial development) at present the leaders are iPhone OS and Windows Mobile. The main advantage of choosing these platforms is a big number of users that get used to paying for the software. The main disadvantage is the necessity to compete with more than 500 mobile apps on any taste that have already been created. Moreover, Apple has got a tough policy on approving the requests for new applications, consequently, much time may pass before your app appears in the App Store, which makes it difficult to invest time and money into iPhone OS.

On the other side, if we look ahead, another interesting variant may be Android OS. Why? Because the database of Android OS users is growing every day. The analytics forecast that by the year 2012=2013 Android-based devices will beat iPhone and even Windows Mobile. Moreover, Google has started teaching its Android users that Android mobile application developers will produce free as well as paid applications and the geography of the countries where the payment can be carried out wilmobile-platforms-410x286l be extended.

Hackers announced the tools for jailbreaking iPhone 4

Monday, October 18th, 2010

The hackers from the Chronic Dev Team announced the release of the new tool for jailbreaking smartphones iPhone 4 and other devices based on iOS 4.1, reported Redmond Pie. The procedure of jailbreaking allows installing the third party content on the smartphones not from the official Apple App Store. iPhone application developers can now develop their apps and distribute them since now using jailbreaking it’s possible to install them with no problems.

The jailbreak, developed for the latest generation of the smartphones iPhone, iPod touch players as well as the iPad tablets, was launched on October 10. It is reported that only devices based on A4 processors can undergo jailbreaking. Thus, it won’t be working on Apple smartphones and players of the older generations. jailbreak

It is reported, that the jailbreak is based on the SHAtter vulnerability, detected by the Chronic Dev Team at the beginning of September. At this, the jailbreak will be complete and won’t require the connection to the computer while switching on the device after rebooting.

The jailbreak differs from the procedure of the SIM unlock, which allows depriving the devices of the connection to the network of the certain mobile operator. It should be noted that iPhone binding to the operator is sold in some countries, for example, in the USA. In Russia iPhone 4 is sold without binding.

Apple lost its main iPhone and iPod developer

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

papermasterSenior Vice-President and Head of the Devices Hardware Engineering Department of Apple, Mark Papermaster, left the company, reported the New York Times.

Mr Papermaster came to Apple from IBM in 2008. In the new place he was responsible for iPod and iPhone development.

According to some observers, the reason of Mr Papermaster’s resign was the notorious problem with the iPhone 4 antenna, which made Apple start giving away free cases for this smartphone.

The former Vice-President didn’t comment his resign. The speaker from Apple, Steve Dowling, confirmed Mark Papermaster’s resign having mentioned that his duties passed to Bob Mansfield, Senior Vice-President and Head of the Mac Hardware Engineering Department.

By the way, Mr Papermaster didn’t take part in the conference dedicated to the ‘case distribution’. Steve Jobs, Bob Mansfield and the main operation director Tim Cook carry his can.

By the way, iPhone application development is probably the most rapidly developing trend in the sphere of mobile application development at present. So any change in the management may influence it.