Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers
Android is designed primarily for smartphones and tablets, the open and customizable nature of the operating system allows it to be used on other electronics, including laptops and netbooks, smartbooks,[75] ebook readers,[76] and smart TVs (Google TV
Android is designed primarily for smartphones and tablets
which application stores have the highest percentage of free apps
Android Market was the winner here. In
Google attracts the sort of developers that enjoy giving away their works and the open nature of the application- approval process (that is, no review board middleman exists between app creation and public release)
' dissatisfaction with Google Checkout - paid Android apps are required to implement this payment method for purchase
U.S. market only
okia has the most paid (85% paid)
prices for the paid applications
RIM and Microsoft were more than twice as high
didn't necessarily have to do with the different types of applications
Android is now the second-largest application store
Windows has 693.
Apple is also the fastest growing store with a shocking 13,865 new applications added per mont
popularity of applications by category
over 1245" Windows Mobile
surprising was the popularity of games on Blackberry, the platform often used more by enterprise
9% popularity to only 18% for utilities.
absence of any form of review process has led to new forms of store flooding and other variety of spams in the form of applications that are just gateways to websites
Daum Cloud, which provides 50 gigabytes of storage for free and makes it possible for users to view photos and videos from the storage on TV – a similar mechanism
Kim Jee-hyun, director of Daum’s strategy division, painted a picture of bright horizons.
0 percent of paid Android apps have clocked fewer than 100 downloads,only two paid applications have been downloaded more than half a million times in the Google Android Market worldwide to date