IOS Still More Popular With Business Users Than Android
According to a report by Citrix the IOS platform continues to be the preferred mobile platform in the business world. Studying business customers who uses it’s cloud-based management software Citrix found that iOS was No. 1 with 58 percent adoption in the 2012 fourth quarter. Android took second place with a 35% share followed by […]
Microsoft Lures Mac Developers With Quickstart Kit
As mobile app developers we become aware this morning that Microsoft is tempting Mac developers to start working on Windows with it’s Windows QuickStart Kit which includes a copy of Windows 8 Pro and Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac on a USB storage device. Microsoft’s group program manager for Internet Explorer Sandeep Singhal, states in today’s announcement “the most common way you […]
Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81%, Windows Phone up 52%
The mobile OS market share figures are in for Kantar Worldpanel’s last quarter, and the numbers are very interesting indeed. Kantar Worldpanel is the largest consumer research mobile phone panel in the world which conducts more than 240,000 interviews per year in the U.S to assertion what people are using. The real shocks are not the Android and iOS numbers which […]
New Playboy iPhone App Keeps It Clean
The infamous playboy magazine launches its iPhone app but keeps it classy with no nudity. Apple is well known for it’s tight rules on app submissions and doesn’t allow pornographic material. Josh Schollmeyer, Playboy‘s Director of Digital Content reflects “It forces us to use our imagination to be a little bit more creative,” he says. “I tell all my photographers […]
Will Ouya Android Games Console Lure Developers?
The Ouya games console was launched this week which experts say could disrupt the industry. The Android based console was a crowd funding success story raising over $8m in funding from 63,416 backers. The console retails for $99 and the games will be a fraction of the cost of traditional platforms such as PlayStation and Xbox. The company has already started sending […]