Tomorrow Apple is going to unveil new iPhones, new sales numbers, and a new mobile operating system. Tonight, however, Microsoft put up its hand and said “Don’t forget about us!”
And the company has good reason to.
Guest Post by Aaron Schlesinger, Senior Software Engineer at StackMob
Apple’s already lost its majority stake in the smartphone market, and at this rate, its grip on the tablet market won’t last long, either.
Land of the free and the home of the brave? Our tax dollars at work.
Samsung has extended its global lead over Apple in the world’s use of mobile devices to access the internet, according to the latest numbers from web analytics provider StatCounter.
Which may not last long, of course, given Apple’s coming iPhone launches.
Typically quiet Amazon has jumped to deny rumors that it’s working on a smartphone that would be offered to consumers for free.
What happens after the crowdfunding campaign — after Indiegogo or Kickstart, and after delivering the products that you promised?
If you’re NEO3DO, the answer is international sales.
There is good news in the fall of the once-giant phone maker, however.
The latest numbers, released this evening by Google, show significant improvement. And that’s good for developers, who have to build apps that work on as wide a range of devices as possible.
First-time buyers are turning away from Android as Apple’s three-year-old iPhone 4 was the top model for feature-phone switchers in the last three months, according to the latest numbers from Kantar Worldpanel.
Proving once again that the U.S. smartphone market is a very, very different animal.
SwiftKey is already the best-selling Android keyboard and the fifth-ranked Google Play app by revenue. Now the “artificially intelligent keyboard” has raised $17.5 million to get even smarter, and to grow even bigger.
Apparently, there’s still a lot to learn.
Microsoft may have married the Finnish girl of its dreams, but the Redmond software giant still plans to play the field.
Editor’s Pick The popular Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has a CEO who isn’t afraid to mimic the late Steve Jobs — yet it still has plenty to teach the West.
Facebook edged one step closer to providing music with a neat little update to its app on Android, which offers the ability to control your music right within your app.
Android app revenues will hit $6.8 billion this year for smartphones alone, ABI Research said today. That’s almost double the total from last year.
It’s still only about 60 percent of Android rival iOS.
Google continues to hold the top spots on the iOS app store, with Google Maps and YouTube taking the first and second most-downloaded spots. And Google Earth jumped from being the 31st to the 9th most downloaded app on iOS in July.
Google’s vice president of Android product management Hugo Barra has reportedly quit and is taking a job at Chinese phone company Xiaomi.
Google Glass may be in its early days, but personal newsreader Zite is already trying to figure out how to take advantage of it.
Taiwanese phone maker HTC, the creator of the killer Android phone the HTC One, is still in dire straights financially. So the company is working on a new smartphone operating system that it can use for phones in China.
Telltale is releasing The Walking Dead on Ouya, which enables the developer’s engine for Google’s mobile operating system.
Mobile testing service StarDust released a new study today which compares total apps, publishers, rate of new apps being added, monetization details, and more about the three main global app stores: iOS, Windows Phone, and Google Play.
Editor’s Pick That, coupled with news that Samsung is announcing its first-ever developer conference this morning, is fueling speculation that the Korean company will be launching Tizen, its first Tizen smartphone, and perhaps even the long-rumored S Cloud in late October, all together.
Locket, a New York City-based startup that lets you earn money from ads on your Android phone lock screens, is aiming to use its technology for good.
Let’s face it, the era of smartphones with physical keyboards is just about over.
Google Play Games product manager Greg Hartrell explains the philosophy of Android’s gaming service.
Among the many things the Moto X has going for it, you can now add ease of repair.
The company is repackaging its titles as native apps for iOS and Android.
Editor’s Pick “Tim just doesn’t hit me as a guy who’s excited about the future.”
Ouya is getting attention again. Did the vomit ad do its job?
You may one day have to do different actions to unlock your Android phone based on where you are, according to a patent filed by Google.
GamePop’s partners will provide more than $200 worth of games for the GamePop console.
Editor’s Pick The Moto X proves you can still make a great phone even if it’s not the fastest one around.
“You’re going to see us do a lot more things that are visual, rich, and have engagement that’s absolutely delightful,” said Yahoo emerging products director Marco Wirasinghe on the Weather app’s design changes.
Developer Playdots brings the brainteaser to Google’s Play market and Amazon’s Appstore.
It’s been about two years since Nielsen noted that smartphone sales overtook feature phone sales in the U.S. — now, it seems we’ve hit that milestone on the global level.
“We want Twitter to be the best place in the world for engineers to work,” Twitter SVP for Engineering Chris Fry posted today.
“I think what they did was absolutely evil,” Ellison said, putting the blame squarely on Page’s shoulders. “I don’t see how he thinks you can just copy someone else’s stuff.”
Apple hasn’t had a lot of wins lately in its global battle against Samdroid, the Samsung-Android juggernaut that has steamrolled Google’s mobile operating system into an 80 percent hammerlock on global market share.
But it did today.
Ouya will double the funding for any crowdfunding game that meets a few minimum requirements. That includes timed exclusivity to Ouya.
The iPad may have lost the tablet wars to an army of Android tabs, but it’s still first in people’s hearts. Second place, however, belongs to a somewhat unlikely candidate.
