iPhone and Android Will Dominate Phone Cell-Market in 2015
Ovum research firm projected that the total amount of the downloadable mobile application in the Asia Pacific region will reach 5.3 billion later in 2015 later. The majority came from the Apple iPhone and mobile users Google Android. From these approximate figures, a total of 597.15 million applications, or approximately 11% of them will be controlled by the iPhone. The total downloaded apps will only be rivaled by other mobile users that use the Android operating systems.
“Apple iPhone will dominate the smartphone market segment of high end within the next five years. However, this dominance will remain under strong competition from Android-based handsets,” said Ovum analyst Adam Leach, as quoted from the AFP on Wednesday .
According to Leach, the presence of Google Android started two years ago have become a new phenomenon and allow every handset maker creates an interesting alternative to the iPhone. In fact, Leach said, a handset that uses Android platform looks like iPhone clone. “Android-based device offers a wider freedom with the available content . And perhaps more interesting than the device with content that is only approved by Apple alone,” he added.
Facebook and Google Maps Two Most Downloaded Apps Over Smartphones
Speaking about smartphone(s), it always reminds us of the apps that support them. As quoted from detikinet last friday, Nielsen announced that started from iPhone to Androids, there are two kinds apps that dominate the smartphones platform. The two apps are Facebook and Google Maps.
The survey – which is named ‘App Playbook’ – was taken from 4.200 American already downloaded the apps for the last 30 (thirty) days. The survey noted that 21% mobiles users in USA use smartphones in the last quarter of 2009, the number is increasing 14% compared to the same period in 2008
Here is the list of Nielsen’s survey result along the non-game apps downloaded the most :
- iPhone : Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
- Android : Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
- Blackberry : Facebook (51%), Google Maps(34%), Weather Channel (28%)
Point Out Your Dining with iPhone
- Locate and Map Your Favorite Spot With iPhone
Speaking about iPhone seem to never last to discuss. Perhaps for most people, iPhone is – first - part of lifestyle, but then iPhone – in my opinion – is all about large opportunity of mobile technology advancement in hand. And apple knows exactly how to wonder consumers, I mean we can see now how apple apps are offered downloadable, all the apps that will make you drool over 
And now the ease and pleasure of having iPhone , with the GPS tool and mobile navigation the iPhone provide, tracking down places we like is just in our tap. We can point our favorite dining spot, we can locate it and just note it on our map and name the point with the food kind for example. And the result ? once we wanna go to our favorite dining spot, we only need to activate our tracker and simply type the food name, then let the the navigation do the rest.
Ow… what a nice gadget 
