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May 13, 2015

2009 to 2015 :change in the mobile industry competitive ecosystem

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" the change in the mobile industry " 2009 to 2015"

 Just 6 years have shaken up the mobile devices competitive landscape

The  above chart  compares and depicts the changes in the mobile industry since 2009 onwards In just over 5 years  the mobile landscape has undergone  a massive shift across its competitive ecosystem . RIM and its brand Blackberry have almost but disspeared. The mobile OS Symbian is history. Microsoft has started making phones  after picking up Nokia which was not a long time ago ” the market leader in many counties ..Android today has over 60%  mobile OS share as compared to just 4% share back in 2009 

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May 12, 2015

Top 10 android smartphones with the worst battery life

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" android smartphones and devices with worst battery life" The creators of battery Stats Plus for Android charted the most unfriendly battery devices tried and tested based on reports from 474 Android devices and 5585 battery statistic reports in the span of the last three weeks.

 Bear in mind that the app is installed on user’s phones all over the world, so some of the phones and tablets with the best and worst battery stats might surprise you in the stat

May 6, 2015

Mobile ad monetization : Android vs iOS

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mobile ad monetization compared "android vs iOS"

Android is global leader for traffic and revenue, but iOS and tablets are tops for monetization

Android devices overtook iOS devices in mobile traffic last year on the Opera Mediaworks platform, and as of this past quarter ( q1 2015)they’ have now caught up in terms of mobile ad revenues (45.8% and 45.4%, respectively). But, iOS devices still lead in monetization: their share of mobile ad revenues is about double their share of traffic (45.4% vs. 22.3%), Android continues to dominate the market, with a 65.2% share of impressions higher than 42.8% share of one year ago.

May 2, 2015

microsoft windows 10 improvements set to be gamechanger

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" how microsoft that destroy competition after windows 10 release

Infographic via Perception System
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Windows 10 would be all about  touch, speech, mouse and keyboard rolled into one

Microsoft  is set to  make the  Desktop OS market  by storm with its impending  windows 10   upgrade Windows 10  made everyone stand up and notice  when it made public of how engaging and all-encompassing Windows 10  will be. Giving everyone a taste of the power this latest Microsoft OS
 via build 10074. This time, this Windows iteration may likely succeed where Windows 8 and 8.1 failed miserably -by integrating  every device from PC’s to tablets to handheld devices into one dependable OS.

In a break from the past when Windows platform  is no longer built in a walled garden  but set to  blow the windows  environment  open .Windows 10 will allow apps written specifically for the iOS and Android platforms to  be ported directly into Windows 10 environment

And the best part is that once released officially, Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for everyone – available for older versions and even for pirated ones. With this development, of windows 10,Microsoft could  be a  serious challenge  and in a one clean  sweep come very close to its biggest rivals, Apple and Google, cortana OS  is expected to be l be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages


April 12, 2015

led by 300% growtth, US smartphone penetration exceeds 75%, Android consolidate its lead in US

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smartphone usage exceeds 75% in US
Mobile OS comparison in US : Android vs iOS

US SMARTPHONE PENETRATION VS MOBILE OS MARKETSHARE

US smartphone penetration has just touched 75% as the chart from comscore shows. From 2% in 2005 to 75% in 2015, the US  is the biggest market to touch 75%.in  a decade..  During the last 4 years smartphone usage in United states registered a  spectacular ,almost 300% growth  from 27%  in 2010 to 75% in 2014

In terms of mobile OS. the second chart shows the beginning of the end of  the darling of  mobile users  since 2005, Blackberry. Nothing sums up the story of  the demine if blackberry better than observing the green band above. From a marketshare of 43% in 2008, RIM now holds less than 2 marketshare. Anroid has extended its lead in US and currently holds 53% marketshare as compared to iOS 42%


April 4, 2015

conversion rate and CTR by devices:

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devices and conversion rate

devices and conversion rates


Desktops, Tablets are among the devices where conversion rates  is the highest. Further  among tablets the iPad, Kindle has the highest conversion rate  9% and 8.64% respectively. Windows phone has the lowest CTR,

March 29, 2015

Android Apps set to be available on Windows phone

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Android apps set to be available on windows phone

NUMBER OF MOBILE APPS ACROSS MOBILE OS .GOOGLE PLAY VS APPLE VS WINDOWS VS AMAZON

The beleaguered windows phone continue to suffer from not  having enough Apps in its windows store . Android and iOS continues to dwarf that of windows  apps . Apples  App Store and Google Play Store respectively boast an app catalog north of 1 million, while the Windows Phone store just last November reached 300,000  as of July 2014 .Microsoft is acutely aware of this fact, thinking of integrating Android App in the upcoming windows phone 10

While most  Android apps are compatible, and some builds even sport a working Google Play Store client. However  questions about the legality of the emulation’s implementation and its potential effects on native Windows Phone development have kept the project from being given a green lighty

March 25, 2015

“top 5 facts on global tablet sales : The Story in charts”

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State of tablets and marketshare
data via statista
While Apple’s iPad was  not the first company to launch tablets it was the “Linus Write-Top tablet was launched  in 1987 and became the first consumer tablet .. However the timing of the launch made enormous f difference as it became the first tablet to achieve significant success amongst consumers from its launch.  Within its first year the iPad sold more than 19 million units globally and has generated billion dollar revenue figures for Apple on a quarterly basis,

March 17, 2015

Consumer Engagement by Mobile OS : Android vs iOS vs Gaming

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Time spent across cross device activity


 Mobile Applications account for 86% of the time consumers spend  spent on mobile by users. And 14% time for browser based activities 
 On the other spectrum along with Gaming, Facebook, and social messaging accounts for  60% of the time spent on mobile.

March 6, 2015

The 10 Markets Where Android is facing its toughest Battle with iOS

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Kantar media state of Smartphone OS Marketshare











The Kantar Media Mobile OS data  for last Quarter, Q4,2014 shows  how much  churn there has been across the most popular Mobile OS platforms across  Europe , Asia and North America and how Android is being threatened by iOS for the first time in  the history ..

The numbers  clearly show that the iphone 6 is having  a dent in  Android sales . Kantar media latest  12-week smartphone sales figures, for the three months to the end of November 2014, show Android losing share in the U.S. for the first time since September 2013. 
Evidently iOS is also taking share from smaller platform players in the U.S., such as Windows Phone (which dropped 1.6 percentage points) and others, likely BlackBerry . In UK Android sales have been hit as as it dropped a larger share than in the U.S., declining 6.7 percentage points year on year. Germany market saw Android  sales being hit by 2%Even Android nations have taken a hit,  Spain, with over 90% Android  shows a marginal 2% fall . Australia  it declined by 3% China’s Android share dropped by 5%  

This is not a huge surprise, given that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus  are Apple’s largest ever iPhones — went on sale starting last September. Yet the Android platform has had larger form factor ‘phablet’ devices for years, so iOS buyers  seem to  now catching up on their size habbits

March 1, 2015

Top 5 Conversion banner categories across Mobile Devices : Android vs iOS

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android vs iOS conversions
The  chart from  one of the biggest Mobile Ad networks  Inmobi shows the banner conversions across Mobile and tablets  across Non Gaming Mobile Apps .
The conversation rates ( CTR )  are compared across iOS and Android devices  is as follows

In iOS  Powered Smartphones the top 5 most converting categories 
Software: 3.3%
Weather: 2.6%
Travel/Local: 2.4%
 Shopping: 2.4%Tools: 2.3

In Android Smartphones . The top 5 most converting  rates across categories  are
Software: 3.5%
Business:2.8%
Education:2.5%
Medical:2.2%
Finance 2.2%



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October 24, 2014

Why Demographically Apple Users are Younger than Androids

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iOS App Users Skew Younger than Android Counterparts – comScore, Inc: “OS users skew younger than their Android counterparts across the smartphone and tablet segments. 43 percent of iPhone users are between the ages of 18-34 as compared to 39 percent of Android phone users. In addition, 57 percent of iPad users are under age 45 as compared to 53 percent of Android tablet users.” One reason might be that ” Apples launch of iPhone happened in 2007 the generation that was growing up due to media proliferation web by then the smartphone revolution has gathered more momentum and speed.. which affected more number of apple devices being sold.. Googles Android gathered critical mass a bit later around 2010,20111..?

October 4, 2014

How Android finished the iOS mojo in 5 years

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The story of mobile OS from 2009 to 2013

 The Mobile OS marketshare compared by year from 2009 to 2013. Observe the growth of Android. From a 4% marketshare to  78% market share in 4 years.Android has been growing exponentially from 4% to 27% to 46% to 66% and in 2013 at 78%  from 2009 onwards. iOS is number 2 and has seen its market share  almost flat ..during the last 5 years

September 15, 2014

‘Google One ‘attempt to take over Indian mobile manufacturers might fall flat

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English: Micromax A70 android phone
English: Micromax A70 android phone (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It seems that Android one smartphones will too follow the chinese manufacturers who sold through Flipkart.com . In a news which was leaked at flipkart and later was removed . Its quite clear that ” the distribution” network as of now will not be through physical stores but by Flipkart. This seem all the more puzzling, that when Google talks about taking their smartphones to the Hindi Heartland , they are thinking of selling it via online marketplace

 Infact the word on the street is that no one from Micromax, Karbon and Spice which are partners in the project  knows anything on the phones and what route will the sales take. On the ground unless Google spends considerable money to create awareness among the million retail stores, educating  dealers and distributors, this model will be killed before its born. 
.. and dont expect Micromax and Karbon to spend money on these phones , as they already have their market segment pretty much mapped out.. and for a selling a few hundred thousand phone ..”in the guise of being powered by android.. awont make a difference.. as  the platform which they use to sell is based on the same OS

 Therefore, the one route Google one will use to sell its Phones would be online ..If they actually cared about making their phones available across sub cultures and Hindi heartland, they should create a social  shopping portal in other languages which they can use to sell their android one  or have a  tie up with a local online marketplace  powered by vernacular languages

 Here were the 2 phones which was leaked 
owever the 2 phones which were leaked by Flipkart wasSpice Android One Dream UNO Mi-498 phone, priced at Rs 6,999, was listed on the website for a few hours. . Spice is one of the three Android One OEM partners, announced at the Google IO conference in June. Prior to the listing, AndroidOS.in had also published the detailed specifications of the phone. Spice Android One Dream UNO Mi-498 sports a 4.5-inch IPS FWVGA (480x854p) display 

August 13, 2014

Apple Countries vs Android Countries : Kantar Media Report on the Latest Smartphone Face Off

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Apple Nations vs Android Nations : Kantar Media faceoff

Windows continue to falter and Apple continues to grow in fits and starts , as the smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, for the three months to March 2014.
Apple performing strongly during this quarter mainly due to the powerful launch of iPhone 5 specially in Japan and Australia
Across Europe, Android remains the top OS with 70.7% share, while Apple holds second position at 19.2%. 
Windows, at third, accounts for 8.1% of smartphone sales globally
By Brands here is how Apple’s IOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows stand 

APPLE 
  • Apple saw its smartphone market share rise in five out of nine countries surveyed “primarily due to the strong performance of the iPhone 5s.
  • The iPhone did, however, lose market share in the USA, China, Germany and Italy. 
  • The nations where Apple showed more good  growth was Australia/ Europe and Japan.
WINDOWS

  • Windows had a tough start to the year as a result of its entry-level Nokia models facing fierce competition from low-end Motorola, LG and Samsung Android smartphones. 
  • Windows lost marketshare  across China and Unites States , grew the highest in Australia


 ANDROID

  • Android Grew above 5% points across Germany, Italy and US while it decreased in Spain, Japan, Great Britain


August 5, 2014

Ater 16 Months , Inmobi Shuts down its Android Plaform App Publish

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InMobi's Android app distribution platform App Publish to shut down
Mobile advertising network InMobi is shutting down its Android app distribution platform App Publish 16 months after its launch in March 2013, 


The app platform was powered by InMobi’s acquisition of Metaflow Solutions, a UK-based mobile app management and distribution solution provider. App Publish allowed developers to submit their app on several app stores concurrently.

The platform allowed developers to publish and manage their apps across 130 global app stores. The objective was to reduce cost and time required in submitting apps to multiple 

In an email received by developers by , InMobi   quoted as saying that  post  August 4 they won’t be able to submit any apps through App Publish, noting that all apps submitted through App Publish will be now be unpublished from the app stores. 

Informed sources claim that  InMobi is in talks with the respective app stores to devise a way on republishing the apps directly via its  App Publish dashboard


July 29, 2014

Google working on a gigantic 5.9 inch smartphone to be launched in November

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Google may be working on a gigantic 5.9 inch smartphone to be released in November,2014 according to a new report from Android Police. The company is reportedly working with Motorola on the phablet, which will supposedly come with a fingerprint sensor and will launch with major US carriers. Google and Motorola are said to be calling it ‘Shamu’ internally. That size is unusually large for a smartphone. It’s one inch shy from being the same size as most mini tablets, such as the Google Nexus 7. Samsung’s Galaxy Mega, which comes in both 5.8-inch and 6.3-inch screen sizes, and LG G Pro 2 are the only other phablets that compare in size. Most phablets fall into the 5.3-5.7-inch range.

Million Android Users vulnerable to malicious attack due to a security flaw

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Source: StatCounter Global Stats – OS Market Share

Android continues to be beset by problems whenever it just seems that its  all ready to blow competition away ..
Apparently Millions of people using Android devices could be left open to attack from malicious apps that appear to come from legitimate developers, due to a flaw in Google’s mobile software. The flaw has been named “Fake ID” by security company Bluebox Labs, which discovered it.

The worse part as  globally Android’s marketshare is bigger than its nearest competitors and this  affects almost all Android phones. 

Bluebox says the vulnerability dates back to the January 2010 release of Android 2.1 and affects all devices that are not patched for “Google bug 13678484,” which was disclosed to Google and released for patching in April..The root of this vulnerability lies in what’s called a “certificate chain,” in which encrypted certificates that verify the identities of Android apps can trust each other to communicate and share data.

 However, Google says it has already issued a patch to protect Android users from attacks exploiting the flaw.

July 6, 2014

If you are using Android Purchased before 2011, You data is ” not safe “

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android data leak sends alarm bells ringin

Thoseof you who  are  using Android Mobile OS  phones  less that  3 years old,  that is  any Android phone purchase before 2011, Beware , it could be broadcasting the names of every Wi-Fi network you’ve connected to and in the process leak sensitive data  and compromise privacy 

According to findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation,  which are reproduced across many tech websites   reveals that  Android device with Android 3.1 Honeycomb or later installed is in Preferred Network Offload mode, meaning it broadcasts the recent Wi-Fi networks it was connected to, allowing anyone within Wi-Fi range to figure out exactly where the user is based and where they have previously been.

Howeeve these no need to panic   There always a solution, as people who  use technology products are more often than not smarter than who makes them

 Just go to “Advanced Wi-Fi” settings and disable the “Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep” option to stop PNO from checking for networks in sleep mode.  
Acording  to TheVerge Devices running iOS 6, 7, or 8 are not affected by the bug, although EFF reported some data leakage in iOS 5 devices.

July 4, 2014

On the Eve of 10 years of Android Here is an Face off Between Google vs Apple

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Android is ahead in terms of market share against apple's IOS

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Google had  acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005 with  key employees of Android Inc., including Rubin, Miner, and White. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time, but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move



As we  reach a decade of Android’s existence the Smartphone Market continues to be controlled by Android and Apple.The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008 . It was not until 2011 that Android had established itself Google’s success in its Mobile OS has come” in around 3 years.  

 The Mobile OS market  continues to  be a 2 ways street,  with just 2 brands  catering to a a one  million  first time smartphone users in a month 

In terms of Consumer choices   the Mobile OS market has seen RIM beaten to dust and Windows failing to rise from the dust

How are these 2 giants battling it up. How do they compare  across markets across devices and in terms of holding on to their marketshare .In terms of Click through rates and   revenue .  How do they stack up across Mobile Apps ?    How do the duo compete on CTR and Revenue? .  Why does an Android Phones comes cheaper than iPhone .   How do they compare across the Tablet  Devices .  While  the Giants fight it out, the infographic shows you how