The app market is not as profitable as it seems. Of time. Maybe. O is for only a select few. Since a computer can create the goose that lays the golden eggs, but most do not give these chickens to pay for their food. Not everyone is like Apalabrados makers who say they have become millionaires since the worldwide success of its popular game.
The Android app store, with more penetration system in Spain, which has a higher growth, but is the Apple Store who takes the cake in revenues. The pressure inflicted developers is such that many fail in their attempt to take advantage (economic) developments.
Perhaps premature and accelerated by the success of Line, the popular instant messaging service WhatsApp, the 'app' most downloaded catalog Google, has decided also offered free for a limited time at the Apple Store, which has a cost download of $ 0.99.
"Whatsapp has failed in its business model. You pay once and never pay again. Line is a company of games and messaging used to sell other services, such as games. In the end you have a lot more revenue opportunities, "says Jacobo Bergareche this newspaper, Wake App, enterprise application I created musical" N "of Jorge Drexler.
"The world of applications is very little time and people are much more concerned with trying to get a large user base. If you have many users who use a recurring basis can choose to "see what happens to me, '" he says.
Payment for download on iOS is the best ally. Despite not having the most downloaded applications are usually more profitable than Android, where "people not used to pay" because, among several reasons, Google does not pass approval controls. This habit of users and this philosophy has led companies such as Samsung to create their own platform to standardize the 'Apps'. "The hope is that, the user-pay on their devices going out of Google domains."
The user behavior in Apple stores and Google is different. In the past four months Play Google's revenue has increased by 43% while the App Store has risen 21%, according to analyst firm Distimo. However, the Apple store has logged more than 15 million dollars a day in November, while in the case of Google Play stood at 3.5 million.
Dermo Map, application for diagnostics, is priced at 5 euros downloads. And that's just one example of the many faces but with good reception. "Medical applications are great because they go to a specialized audience and people tend to buy them, but there are also educational applications such as Touch Press that cost 12 euros. People buy them because they have a perception of quality and is a wonderful experience, "he adds.
There are many 'app' opportunists such as television programs or popular events that are "disposable" looking to get a high number of downloads to allow the developer themselves known, but the model that is being imposed is the "freemium", by which offers a number of free basic services, while others charge more advanced.
In this way, experts say, is captive to the user. "The 'app' is free, but then inside, buy content. It has to be an attractive application that generates the need to purchase, "says Juan Bosch of 2yPunto, creators of VoiceMod, a service to modulate the voice.
That model, the "freemium" is the more performance is obtained "because you allow users to benefit from the potential of the 'app' and, from there, whoever may be with the extended version", explains SpartanBits but insist: "Everything depends on the client and application."
Born in summer to "see out" but Triviados, one of the most downloaded applications on Android with more than a million high, its creators have not become rich overnight. "We have not seen money" manifest. "Android is not supported in 'lament from Tambourine Studio. Despite record "many ad impressions" the game still gives no income. "Profits given to pay the servers. It is something that allows us to live, "recognize.
Decide where to place the platform "apps" is the debate raised companies. "Only Android is unprofitable. In the world of iOS can generate more, but it depends, because we used a little fetch mode espacarate to other customers who want to further developments, "they say. That is, having a portfolio "to seek funding or letter."
Finally the new title that combines the charismatic birds within the universe of Star Wars is already among us. If you believe that Angry Birds Space have seen it all, wait to try this new release. Meanwhile, enjoy the new trailer for Star Wars Angry Birds.
Angry Birds Star Wars is located in the original Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV, V and VI) where the beloved birds are part of the Rebellion in an attempt to end the evil plans of the Empire, made up of evil pigs. Prepare to laugh when seeing classic characters like Luke Skywalker or Chewbacca played by these birds in a true but very fun above all. Below, the trailer for Star Wars Angry Birds showing us the new details on the gameplay:
As you have seen, the characters of Star Wars Angry Birds have new skills, many of them related to the Star Wars universe itself. From the classic and inevitable Jedi lightsaber that allow us to attack in the middle of a jump and dodge enemy fire make up the very use of force or allow us to attract more strongly impact our goals. Even the scenes are portrayed with a very true to the original series, from the hot desert Tatooine to the depths of the Death Star in the middle of the space.
Graphically the game maintains the same quality that we could enjoy Angry Birds in Space. In fact, except for the new additions in terms of gameplay and scenarios, much difference between a title and another there, yet it is still an excellent game in the Angry Birds franchise. Again, the developers of Star Wars Angry Birds is Rovio Entertainment team. The game is now available for iOS systems, Android and Microsoft Windows. And you, what are you hoping to play?
He lives with his parents in South London and still receive pay, as good teenager is. He's only 17 and has just launched an iPhone application, whose edition beta has managed to charm many and get up to a million dollars in funding.
His name is Nick D'Aloisio and application that has launched the careers technology called 'Summly'. This "app" condensed or summarized the news in three paragraphs that fit on the screen of the Apple smartphone. Users can customize the categories of items, and have a link to the original news piece can visit if they liked or hooked after reading the summary. "I designed Summly because I realized that my generation does not read news in a traditional way", says Nick.
The prototype attracted the attention of the company Horizons Ventures (also sponsoring Facebook or Spotify), which invested $ 300,000 in November 2011, when D'Aloisio still was 16. The beta was downloaded more than 150,000 times and was chosen for the golden apple of technology as the application of the week in the UK.
Yes, the little genius has had more sponsors, among which are known as Ashton Kutcher, Stephen Fry and Yoko Ono. Thanks to all of them, has gotten up to a million dollars in funding, which has been able to launch the application and even create your own business.
For the first time the popular photo app is also downloadable Android devices
After many promises and a long wait, today launched the popular photo app Instagram from Android from Google. This is a type of soft launch - search the name of the app store Play Google can not find it, but link to it sent to some users who pre-registration site Ainstgrm - and through it you can download. It should work on phones running Android version 2.2 and above.
The new application is quite similar to the existing IOS operating system of Apple and its features to bring the Android. More features are expected to be added in the coming weeks. Android version there are some differences in the original version, for example the need to manually adjust and move the image's shooting device of the square format image Bainstgrm (IOS version of the picture is taken in advance in a square one).
Ainstgrm iPhone was launched in 2010 and became a smash hit, with more than 30 million users worldwide. Early registration Android version recorded over 400,000 people within a week.
Apple Android apps match.
SIRI = IRIS
Like a lot other coied over stuff from iPhone to Android IRIS is another example.
One of the biggest market driving force for iPhone 4S is siri that can do NLP correctly and respond accordingly.
A team of indian android developers have tried to do do same as. Unfortunately its speed and NLP is not as good as SIRI. Some times you have to speak lil loud and make it work.
Still just a quick test with a system that took 8hrs to put together and is released as an early alpha in the Android Market. The takeaway message is that Apple can’t afford to stand still: if a small team of developers can create something like Iris in less than a day, the combined mass of Google’s developers is capable of much, much more. Ice Cream Sandwich is just the start of it.
To make physical things work in real work with a phone require a machenical extention. But once in a while engineer comes up with an idea that can blow your mind or a candel.
A genious idea of which turns your phones speaker into the world's worst personal fan, is just one of those apps.
iCloud, the new cloud computing platform from Apple – and the replacement for many MobileMe features – isn't set to fully launch until this fall. But this week, Apple rolled out a limited version of iCloud for developers, and already, techies are foaming at the mouth.
The UI seamlessly blends elements of OS X Lion and iOS, using iOS-style alert pop-ups, but the look of Lion iCal for example. ICloud will debut at a variety of price points: 5GB of storage a year is free, 10GB of storage costs $20 a year, 25GB costs $40, and 50 GB costs a hundred bucks.
So how does iCloud stack up against competing services from Amazon and Google? Over at Forbes, Brian Caulfield has a pretty good breakdown – "Amazon’s service appears to be the most straightforward, Google’s cloud storage offering is the cheapest, while Apple’s is shaping up to be the one that offers the best integration with your existing devices," Caulfield writes. (For a comparison of the prices on the different platforms, check out this report.)
But that integration, along with the intuitive Apple interface, come at a price. "ICloud is clearly built to keep customers on Apple’s hardware and software," Caulfield writes. "The ultimate promise: write a document on Apple's iWork suite of applications and you’ll be able to access it from any of your other Apple devices, or the Web." Of course, Apple's MO is to keep people in the Apple mindset, from iTunes on down, so longtime users shouldn't be too surprised.
The bigger question is how eager people will be to throw their digital lives up on the cloud. In theory, the cloud is a great idea: All your files, when you want them, no matter what device you've got in your hand. But as evidenced by a recent Amazon outage, folks can be awful quick to freak out when the cloud goes dark. In that way, Apple has two hurdles to cross: Make iCloud accessible and cheap, and also make it bulletproof.
Mobile Google+ early users are lauding features such as the app's push notifications for updates so when someone comments on one of your posts or sends you a message from a Huddle chat you can see it on your iPhone without having to open the app. The app's photo viewer also includes an uploader that lets people grab shots from their phone's camera.
Some features from the desktop Google+ don't yet translate to the app experience. CNET's Josh Lowensohn points out that "there's no video chat option to make use of the multiuser video hangouts feature, even if you're on an iPhone 4 with dual cameras. Also, the Circles organizing is just a big list of contacts, versus the drag-and-drop experience you'd get on the desktop. This makes organizing large groups of contacts more laborious but is understandable, given the smaller amount of screen real estate."
Initially, some users complained the app was buggy and frequently crashed but Google has already released a lightning-fast update to take stabilize it.
Mosquito bites are perhaps the one thing that are worse than the heat in Japan during the summer. Not only do they itch the entire day, these pesky little blood-suckers annoy the general population with their loud buzzing and constant flying in circles. Sea’s Garden, a smart phone gaming and utility app maker, offers a solution to the terror that mosquitoes bring to man, without harming the environment.
The Mosquito Buster is an Android app (soon to be released for the iPhone as well) that acts as a mosquito coil, but instead of burning off insect killing smoke, it releases a high-frequency sound from your smart phone speakers which these insects detest.
The app is extremely simple to operate: users choose between 3 modes, each with corresponding frequencies. The first is obviously to avoid mosquitos, and the second, rodents. The third was what caught our attention and seemed particularly amusing. The third mode is titled “Avoid Children”, as it releases a frequency only detectable to children, as adult ears cannot hear the high pitched sound. It would be useful for parents who need a little bit of peace and quiet from their screaming, energetic toddlers. It’s nice to see useful utility apps like these that offer clever ways of solving consumer problems in an eco-friendly manner. Looks like I’m going to finally get a good nights sleep tonight without having to worry about pesky insects (or children for that matter) that bring a world of itchiness to my feet .
More than 3,000 companies around the world sign up to Google Apps each day, according to a Google chief.
Robert Whiteside, head of Google enterprise for UK, Ireland and Benelux, said that around three million businesses across the world use Google Apps, one million of which are based in EMEA.
"We have over 3,000 companies a day moving into the cloud...[and] the adoption of cloud is accelerating," Whiteside said, although he admitted that a large proportion of the customers are small and medium-sized businesses.
Furthermore, not all of these companies pay for the service, which was first released in February 2007.
Businesses with up to 10 users can use the free version of Google Apps, called Standard Edition, while those with more users have to sign up to the paid-for Google Apps for Business. It costs firms £33 a year per user, or £3.30 per user on a monthly basis.
Google's major UK customers include Rentokil Initial, which deploys the apps to 35,000 employees, Jaguar Land Rover's 15,000 users and Specsavers's 2,500 staff. The Guardian and Telegraph newspapers each have around 2,000 employees using Google Apps.
Google Apps' low price point is one of its appealing features, which has helped encourage the growth in cloud computing adoption.
"We have really seen cloud computing go mainstream. One of the great values of cloud computing is it's very accessible," said Whiteside.
However, he said that cost should not be the deciding factor for businesses.
"Most companies are attracted to cloud computing initially because of its ability to reduce costs.
"The reality is that the model of cloud computing transforms your working practices, [allowing employees to] collaborate with each other, connecting staff in different ways. The cloud allows you to solve new business problems."
He continued: "The most successful companies will be the ones who use the cloud in new, innovative ways, in addition to running the cloud in their business."
It was a bit too soon, however, for Whiteside to say if Google's latest innovation, social network tool Google+, would be deployed for the enterprise market.
"Helping people share information among themselves is very important in the consumer and business world.
The competition between iOS 5 and Android is getting more intensed day by day. With each update and head-to-head comparison between the biggies, striking similarities as well as dissimilarities have forced millions of gadget lovers to think twice over their smartphone of choice.
Check out the top five useful features of Android that will make it a better choice over Apple's latest build of iOS.
Flexible home screen and widgets
The beauty of Android home screen and widgets is that they are flexible and can be customized according to users' needs. You can easily customize your home screen, place widgets anywhere you want, and they will give you updates on features that matter. You can use widgets for weather updates, breaking news, emails, clocks, WiFi or even media playback controls. When it comes to iOS, users can only launch apps and create folders.
Customizability
You are free to customize almost anything on your Android. You can extend or replace almost every core Android feature by third-party apps. If you want more, the Android source code is there at your service. You can take the code and customize your ROM, by installing CyanogenMod or Gingerbreak. With Android you can change your default browser to Firefox or any other browser. But in case of iOS, Safari is your only option. If you want to customize your iOS, you need to jailbreak your iOS device.
Better voice control functionality
You just speak and Android brings you what you want. Yes, Android carries voice commands. You can easily search and find with voice search through Google. While listening to music, you just have to speak the title or the artist's name and Android lets you enjoy the music. You can also load third-party music apps like Pandora with the "listen to" command. But in iOS, the voice command options are limited. The music-by-voice feature of the iPhone is only linked to the iPod app.
Android can play Flash games and video, and iOS can't (and never will). It supports only HTML5 web apps. With iOS embracing HTML5 web apps, questions are raised on whether Flash offers what the industry really needs. According to numerous reports, most of the performance related issues have been rectified with Flash for Android Honeycomb.
Google Account Integration
iCloud is interesting. But it's just a cloud storage service. It stores your docs, pictures and apps. With Android, you'll have the benefit of Google Account Integration. You can edit your Google Docs no matter which device you are using, it can be your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop. You can upload music to Google Music, and stream from the cloud to your phone. You even can do a VoIP call via Google voice. But with iOS, you neither get streaming music nor VoIP.
GPS Navigation
Voice-guided GPS is a service which has been there in Android phones as a standard component since October 2009. Although iPhone has some third-party apps that offer turn-by-turn voice guidance, with Android's built-in functionality, you can easily jump in to navigate from other apps. In case of iOS, users have to manually copy and paste the address into the app they want to use.
