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Articles tagged with: Apple and Apps
Android Overtakes Apple for Free Applications on Apps Stores
According to the apps store analytics firm, Distimo, there are now more free apps on the Android Market than on apple's App Store. more
Related Tags: android-market, app-store, android, distimo, windows-phone, nokia-ovi, apple-app-store
44 Billion Mobile App Downloads by 2016, Says ABI Research
A new study from ABI Research reveals that the worldwide app industry is well on its way to achieving 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016. Android and Windows Phone 7 are steadily catching up with apple as adoption picks up pace and expansion of their mobile OS installed bases continues to grow. The mobile app ecosystem and market model is also expected to evolve with the increasing pool of smartphone and tablet users. more
Related Tags: android, wp7, windows-phone-7, app-store
Amazon Responds to Apple's Attempt to Trademark "App Store"
Amazon has responded to apple's trademark lawsuit against it for the use of "AppStore" to describe its apps store, by using Steve Jobs own words against him. more
Related Tags: amazon, app-store, USA
Apple Urged to Remove Drink Driving Conviction Avoidance Apps
Four US politicians have sent an open letter to apple asking it to remove several software apps that they say helps drunk drivers avoid being arrested. The four senators include Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Majority Speaker, along with Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Tom Udall (D-NM). more
Apple Sues Amazon Over Appstore Trademark
On the day that Amazon.com launched its own apps store, the company was handed a lawsuit from apple over the use of "appstore" in its brandname. apple has registered the term "App Store" as a trademark, although Microsoft is filing an objection claiming that the term is now sufficiently generic as to be unable to be protected by a trademark. more
Related Tags: android, apps-store, amazon.com, app-store, court, USA
Apple's CDMA iPad Has Lower Materials Cost than GSM Counterpart
With the second-generation iPad, apple has held the line on the bill of materials (BOM), maintaining virtually the same costs as the first version of the device, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis of the product has revealed. The 32GB NAND flash memory version of the iPad 2 equipped the with GSM/HSPA standard carries a BOM of $326.60. The 32GB version equipped with the CDMA standard carries a BOM of $323.25. more
Related Tags: ipad-2, cdma, gsm, lg-display, touch-screen, ihs
Mobile Applications Downloads Approached Eight Billion in 2010
2010 saw considerable growth in the mobile applications market, and more competition is expected in 2011. Despite more proactive involvement in app store development from other platform providers, apple's iTunes is still the market leader after having such a successful head start. According to ABI Research's estimates, the iPhone interface had notched up more than 5.6 billion accumulated downloads by the end of 2010, compared to nearly 7.9 billion total downloads from all stores during that year. However, apple is set to face more intensive competition in 2011. more
Related Tags: app-store, apps-store, android-market, ios, mobile-apps
Apple Maintains Dominance of Mobile Application Store Market in 2010
?Despite the flood of so-called "iPhone killers" entering the market in 2010, apple largely maintained its dominance of the global mobile application store market for the year, IHS Screen Digest research shows. more
Related Tags: apps-store, android-market, ovi-store, global-mobile, apple-app-store, ihs
Apple to Enable Subscriptions Through its App Store
apple has announced that it will permit Apps developers to start charging recuring subscription fees through its Apps Store. The move follows from a trial with News Corp.'s "The Daily" app for the downloadable newspaper. more
Related Tags: app-store, apps-store
Apple to Permit Apps Publishers Access to Users Personal Details
A change in the iTunes terms and conditions has been detected that for the first time will allow apple to pass the personal details of apps purchasers to the apps publisher. The key change to the T&Cs, which was found by the brightsideofnews website notes that apple may " ask for your permission to provide the name, e-mail address and zip code listed in your Account to the Licensor so that it can send you marketing messages about its own products in accordance with its publicly posted privacy policy" more
Related Tags: privcy
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