Why Apple is Killing Android in the Business World
The Android platform may be dominating the overall smartphone market but is still lagging leap years behind iOS on the business front. The vast majority of businesses choose to outfit their employees with an iPhone these days and that trend doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. During the I/O developer conference Google announced plans […]
How Earning Pentagon Security Clearance Makes Apple Even More Profitable
Amid the congressional corporate tax charade taking place in Washington D.C., Apple, Inc. recently received the highest praise possible from a different branch of the US government. The Pentagon officially cleared the iPhone and iPad to be used by military and government employees after a lengthy review of the devices hardware and software security features. […]
Burstly Rolling Out Sweet New App Testing Tools
Burstly, the owner of the app testing platform “TestFlight” is rolling out a new suite of developer tools to the public. According to TechCrunch, the products TestFlight, FlightPath, and now SkyRocket represent a full cycle of support covering the entire development process, from beta testing straight through analytics for shipped software, and on to monetization […]
Department Of Defense Approves IOS6
A report earlier this month indicated that the U.S Department of Defense was preparing to approve Apple devices running IOS6 for us on military networks. It’s now been confirmed that the department has issued official authorization for IOS6 allowing Apple products to be used more freely on their networks. The reported stated that out of more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the Defense […]
Apple iOS Given Thumbs Up by Pentagon for Security Features
The Pentagon gave Apple’s iOS platform a big seal of approval today, clearing the iPhone and iPad for use by Department of Defense employees. According to an article by Apple Insider, “The DoD will reportedly grant clearance for both iOS 6, Apple’s current mobile operating system, as well as iOS 5, the company’s previous-generation software. […]
iOS7 Rumors Swirl, Predict New Look for Icons and App Design Graphics
Jony Ive, the design visionary behind the iPhone and iPod’s runaway success apparently is hard at work rolling out big changes to the iOS platform. According to Apple news site 9 to 5 Mac, “The new interface is said to be “very, very flat… the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current […]
Who’s Got the Golden Ticket? Apple Personally Inviting Developers to WWDC
Tickets to WWDC 2013 sold out in less than two minutes, leaving thousands of eager developers despondent and morose. For a lucky few iOS developers Apple is doing the unthinkable, making personal calls to invite selected devs to the conference. According to sources at TUAW an iPhone app developer gave details of his experience, saying, […]
Poof They’re Gone, WWDC 2013 Sold Out in 2 Minutes
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is the hottest tech event on earth for developers and it shows. Today when tickets went on sale at 10:00 am they were all sold out by 10:02 am. Tickets cost $1,599 and were limited to one per person. In less than 2 minutes every WWDC ticket on sale was accounted […]
Developers Have Been Paid $9 Billion through Apple Apple Store
During Apple’s most recent earnings call with stockholders the company announced that they have so far paid developers more than $9 billion in revenue sharing. If you include Apple’s hefty 30% cut of all developer sales, the App Store has earned $12.8 billion in revenue since its inception. The App Store has earned the company […]
iPad Easily Beating Android in the Tablet Wars
Chikita, a mobile advertising network just released a research report on tablet devices that confirms what most experts already expected. The iPad is wiping the floor with Android devices in the race to control the tablet market. Since December 2012 the share of time spent browsing the web via an iPad device has risen to […]