Android competition complaint
Enraged Android
If the operating system market is generally a hostile and highly competitive market, what can we say about the mobile operating system market? That everything is intensified more. No doubt about it. And if you still do not believe in this statement, the information that I will now discuss them aware of the degree of competition that makes the world of OS for smartphones.
As you know Android is an operating system created by the people at Google are the following characteristics: it is a concept designed for mobile use and features an open source enables users to act as developers and transformers system used.
For this reason, and a large advertising campaign, no doubt-that Android managed to position itself in the most privileged in smartphone operating systems.
Since its debut in 2008, Android has grown to become the most popular operating system in the world for "smartphones" with a market share of 48%, according to the second quarter of the consulting firm Canalys.
"More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 distributors," said the manager of Google.
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Alyun OS
Alyun OS
If there is a market that is diverse, fragmented, and made an object of desire for thousands and thousands of businesses, that is without doubt the market for operating systems. At some point will have been a fertile ground for investment, but after the advent of Windows, Android, IOS, to name the best known, is very difficult to get a good slice in this economic arena where competition appears to be fierce, and the intensity of which there would be signs that decline.
Now, if this description be taken out the conclusion that this market is closed in this market that things are already prescribed as if it were a fate would distort the most important aspects of the situation. And this is precisely what they understood in China to make the Asian market and launch a new operating system that will seek to shed some shadow on the body of the great competitors in the market so far have played effective demand.
We're talking about Alyun OS, a new fighter that although power to try to kill current OS, it will do from one type of strategy that we would call "parasite style" to the extent that borrowing has made several ideas Android .
The operating system bet big decision to the clouds and applications. Promises in their mission statements to spare users the trouble of having to download programs to use them on your computer. Read more
Negative balance for Windows Phone
Windows Phone
There is nothing worse for a trader who does not meet the market with performance that approaches to early expectations when making an investment risk. In effect, this indicates a gross failure by the operator and the very idea of risk tends towards the negative side, understood as objectively possible when investing in a new product.
This has happened to Microsoft, which has tried to catch up with the operating systems for mobile devices, and yet-perhaps for having taken over the account in the decision to create a Windows Phone-could not even touch on the heels of competitors: Google, Apple and Blackberry.
Indeed, a market survey has data from the first quarter of this year and location of equipment sales integrated with Windows Phone has not been very positive to say.
This deficit can be understood when we understand the numbers in relationship, that is, putting the various players in the bond market of telecommunications and operating systems. Sales volume for Microsoft is a global market share of 3.6%, when compared with its rivals is exhibited dramatically lower and lower. Is that Android is the best positioned with a 36% global share, followed by Symbian (27%), IOS (16.8%) and BlackBerry OS (12.9%). Read more
New Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Android 3.1 Honeycomb
With the start of the conference is eagerly awaited by fans of Google, the news has not been long in coming. In many specialized blogs we can find several comments, insights and judgments of approval. In a society where information flows unchecked, the news no longer the prey of journalists, and becomes food for laymen and initiates.
A "news" has transcended relatively interesting that the Google I / O 2011, was the release of Android 3.1 Honeycomb, an incremental update of the operating system for tablets.
As for updates to this relaunch, we can say that there is a big bet by Google in the dimension of the user interface: it has become much easier to look at and easier to use, intuitive and fast. It has improved, too, the display of internal storage.
Another point of color is that this new version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb is that it incorporates support for USB accessories. This comes as a corollary that users now can connect any device (from keyboards, mice through to any other object with USB connection).
It also has a flexible extension of the list of applications for better handling by users.
Finally, we have greatly improved support for Wi-Fi high speed. Read more
Multifunction Android ¿?
Android multi-
Journalists who have been privileged to attend the first keynote of the Google I / O 2011 have commented on genuine innovation proposed by Google. We refer to the intention to expand the functions of Android so that the operating system functions for accessories and general operation of our homes. The two tools for this are: Open Accessory and Android Android @ Home.
It would be interesting to think what implications do these two projects, so far available to developers free of charge and free. Indeed, both the Android and the Open Accessory @ Home radicalized to extremes the idea of a link between man and technology.
The first enables developers to create Android, but right accessories that serve to perform different actions, discussed the example of an Android phone placed in a fixed bikes and their subsequent recognition by the terminal necesria application (in this case : a clock with timer, for example).
The second goes further by enabling developers to create applications that enable us to control all functions with Android home, from turning on the TV, increasing the temperature of the home, cooking a meal in the microwave, etc.. Read more
TomTom and control of user privacy
Control via GPS
The issue of privacy seems to be a problem while underground, follows every celebration of the progress of technological devices and new communication technologies, among which Internet device appears as the most important of all devices. A French philosopher said that our society is a society of sovereignty as absolute monarchies time-or time-like discipline in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but we live in societies of control. People live exhibiting their intimacies and these publications are followed by the centers of economic and political power.
A little this is what is said against the social networks that make intimacy a show. We all know that any information uploaded to the web, every picture hanging on our wall on Facebook, adds another element to the mass of information that the large centers of information and control of the companies handled daily.
Now this is confirmed by those published in recent days by TomTom.
As you know, a while ago which confirmed the suspicion that the 3G iPhone and iPad keep a record of the user's location, as well as Android and Windows Phone.
That record is nothing innocent, since it allows to accurately track the movements of users accessing the same privacy.
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Controversy over the closure of Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets
Android 3.0 Honeycomb
The figure of the open source system has awakened from its inception, countless fantasies and desires of the users of cyberspace. Does the realization here and now of the liberal ideals of democracy? Is the possibility of giving subjects the coveted right to participation and creation? Is the universal gift of individual production? When Android was designed, there were not listening to these questions, and keep coming up today.
With the news that Google clausuraría the open source Android 3.0 Honeycomb to not experience the same on the outside of the platform that was originally thought (tablets), all these desires seem to collapse at the mere factuality of economic power . Google agents have justified the decision with the strange argument that the results of rampant experimentation with Android out of the tablets, for example: mobile-were "unpredictable."
Not the first time the inclusion of people into a right to participate freely in a content is then hidden by the detrimental effects that such inclusion would bring to the ultimate goals of any company. However, this phenomenon, which should not make a dramatic reading or fatalistic, it does tell us of a certain naivete that is distilled from the questions above. Read more
Google launches System "In-app" for Android applications
Shopping in apps with Google
According to indicate the sources of information on network operating systems, next week, Google would be launching the new procurement system "In-app" for Android applications. As you know, we have discussed already, not too long ago that Amazon had released its Appstore, so it is understandable that, immediately, as we have news from Google.
The news hit squarely at developers, but obviously its significance is not restricted to them. This release is specifically affects the source of income for developers, who will no longer be restricted under compulsion to the choice of payment apps.
This new system, though not so new because it was designed for a couple of years now, will allow developers to present virtual goods market by applications. This would, as a result, there is a new status of applications, called "free-to-play".
For those developers who have found this new suggestive, but still do not feel safe with their specificities, Google has made available the site so you can get a practice exercise and start using the system. To do this, click here . Read more
Inauguration of Amazon Appstore for Android
Amazon Appstore
Competition always brings benefits to consumers. To the extent that the agent provides a good or service begins to watch his hand to other agents that offer the same goods, the agent may decide to increase the chances of commercial success operating in the prices of their products and doing promotions and offers . Seeing this, other partners will do theirs. In this infinite chain of lower prices, the customer or consumer notes with happiness how options will accrue daily.
This is what the user will have seen the birth of Amazon Appstore for Android, the new competition from Android Market. We have already said something about it, but since this site has been launched in the U.S., it is important to know the basic measurements of the same so we know what to expect when the site is open to users worldwide.
One of the interesting proposals for Amazon Appstore is the promotion of applications. In order to increase sales, Amazon is willing to reduce prices of the applications in this reduction since known that the amount can become a category of quality. Even these promotions may include the offer of a free for a whole day (if Angry Birds Rio). Read more
Statistics for Android developers
Statistics for Android developers
I guess not reinvent the wheel when it is said, once again, that all knowledge is power. For every action takes place in an environment and this environment has objective aspects that must be taken into account if the objectives are feasible to be carried out. This has been understood very well the economy, and therefore since we remember that science has been his ally.
With this as background we can understand the new measure developed by Google. We refer to the new system of statistics that the giant has made available to Android developers so they have a basic understanding of what is the fate of the products launched on the market. This is a critical input to the modernization and streamlining of any business.
The statistics include information on the discharges of the applications created, users who are attracted by the proposals of Android Market, by his tastes and interests, as well as provides information on operating system versions that are handled in the user side.
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