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Posted by on Nov 17, 2012 in iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

iOS Updates of the Week

iOS Updates of the Week

We have a few topics to cover this week.   First,   When it comes to Piracy detection note these things down:  Don’t put piracy detection into your app, you have everything to lose and nothing to gain when it inevitably goes wrong. If you ignored lesson one then don’t make your app auto-tweet a confession from a potentially innocent user. If you ignore both of those lessons just apologize and be humble about it. To get a better idea of what I’m talking about and why I mention this you can read this full article. Great news for Mogenerator users this week. Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch released an updated versionwhich has some new features and bug fixes.       Tools to make your life easier.   UIActivity Providers for iOS 6 Essentially A directory of all the iOS6 UI Activity providers in one place. Makes it easy for your users to share the amazing content in your app.   POP – (Prototyping on Paper) InvisionApp These two are for helping you...

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Posted by on Nov 15, 2012 in Android News, Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Android surpasses 70% OS Market Share – 72% to be exact, Apple at 13%.

Android surpasses 70% OS Market Share – 72% to be exact, Apple at 13%.

As reported by Gartner earlier today, Apple is behind both Samsung AND Nokia for total mobile device sales, however Samsung and Apple remain the top smartphone vendors collectively capturing over 46% of the market. This placed RIM and HTC behind Apple and Samsung in 3rd and 4th positions.   “Samsung’s mobile phones sales continued to accelerate, totaling almost 98 million units in the third quarter of 2012 (see Table 1), up 18.6 percent year-on-year. Samsung saw strong demand for Galaxy smartphones across different price points, and it further widened the gap with Apple in the smartphone market, selling 55 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012. It commanded 32.5 percent of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012.”     “Apple’s sales to end users totaled 23.6 million units in the third quarter of 2012, up 36.2 percent year-on-year. “We saw inventory built up into the channel as Apple prepared for the coming holiday season, global expansions and the launch into China in the fourth quarter of...

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