...Softonic Apps Games News Features Answers Videos WINDOWS EN Login Safe downloads and expert advice Search: Choose platform Blog posts What's the best platform for games? Android, iOS or Windows Phone? What's the best platform for games? Android, iOS or Windows Phone? Maria Baeta | September 9, 2014 iOS Windows Phone Android Gaming Comparisons With three mobile operating systems to choose from, you may be thinking about changing your smartphone. If playing games is a make or break feature for you, check out this comparison to find out which OS is best for gamers: Android, iOS, or Windows Phone. Available games You'll find each platform's catalog of games in Google Play (Android), the App Store (iOS), and the Windows Phone Store (WP), and all three dedicate a large section of their stores to games. While that's good news for even casual gamers, which is best in terms of quantity and quality? Looking at statistics from AppBrain, StatisticBrain, and WP7Applist, I was able to extract the following numbers (note that this data is only approximate because new apps are constantly being released in all three app stores, but it helps to get a general idea). Both Google Play and the App Store have more than one million active apps in their catalogs. Out of these, about 25% are games, which means that there are around 250,000 titles for each platform. The Windows Phone Store, on...
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...assistants for other companies. HTC then transitioned into the fast growing Smartphone category and had emerged as the world’s fourth largest Smartphone manufacturer by 2009. But HTC is now facing big name players such as Nokia, Apple and Samsung Electronics and the competition for high-end sophisticated mobile devices has became more intensifying. CEO Peter Chou is now facing several decisions in order to move his company forward. In this first part, the performance of HTC will be evaluated, looking at the competitive advantages and vulnerabilities. In the second part the operating system strategy will be analysed. Finally, many companies are now offering their own application store, in this part we will analyse whether HTC should build its own app store or do something else. Performance of HTC and the competitive advantages and vulnerabilities. Based on the vision of Cher Wang to develop a small, hand-held computer like device, HTC developed its first PDA in 2000. HTC was commissioned to be an original design manufacturer (ODM). In the ODM business HTC manufactured smartphones for branded handset companies. The consequences were that HTC only had little responsibility for sales, marketing, or inventory management. Besides HTC designed phones for service providers such as t-mobile and Vodafone. HTC supported operators by helping them build unique value propositions and optimize their services, this helped them differentiate from other ODMs. and the mobile phone operator business...
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...Android app Vs Apple app Market: A Design Perspective Pranjal Sutradhar Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Pre-final year stuent pranjal5026@gmail Abstract: Nowadays there is boom of smart phones, there are more than a billion smartphone users in the world [1]. As of 2013, two-third of Americans own smartphones [2].The key feature of these smart phones are their application support and there operating system on which these application runs. The most common mobile operating systems are Android, iOS, Blackberry and WindowsPhone. This paper provides analysis share of smart phones having different mobile operating systems. 1. Introduction iOS: It’s a mobile operating system used and developed by Apple Inc. It is used to run iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. It was first released in 2007 for iPhone[3]. It is based on the concept of direct manipulationand utilizes a multi-touch interface where simple gestures are used to operate the device, like swiping your finger across the screen to move to the next page or pinching your fingers to zoom out also for rotating in three dimension, respond on shaking or tilting the device internal accelerometers are used applications[4]. It uses framework of OSX such as Core Foundation and Foundation but its UI toolkit is Cocoa Touch instead of AppKit framework. It’s therefore not compatible with OS X for applications.iOS also shares the Darwin foundation with OS X. Its is very restrictive when it comes to their...
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...An Intro to Android and Android Applications D. Reynolds In today’s world of technology, even the average user can identify that mobile technology development grows exponentially each year. As more resources become available in the palm of our hands, the software and devices which we use to access these resources become more powerful and competitive in their market. According to the Open Handset Alliance, there are 3 billion mobile phone users worldwide, in comparison to the estimated 1.5 billion TV’s currently in use. Clearly, mobile devices are leading among the world’s most successful products for consumers. Currently, in the crusade to stay connected, there are a variety of operating systems and platforms, both firmware and software, that are always being reviewed and revised to create optimal end user experiences. The successes of device manufactures create new opportunities for innovative software products to wow users and create solutions for productivity and entertainment purposes. The relationship between devices and software to run on those devices is reciprocal. They both have to be compatible with one another in order to be relevant. Keeping up with ever emerging devices and software offered by developers for our service and convenience, can be overwhelming. As an aspiring programmer, I am most intrigued by open source platforms where the basic idea is to allow developers to create programs to run according to the protocols of one operating system that...
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...APP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SCOPING DOCUMENT The purpose of this document is for us to get a good idea of the project and respond to you with a detailed proposal which would become the basis of our app development agreement. The more you tell us, the more accurate our understanding. 1. About You |Name: | |Email: | | |Organisation: | |Phone: | | 2. About the Idea A. Name of the app / working title | | | | | | B. Provide an outline of the app, in as much detail as possible. | | | | | | C. Provide an outline of...
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...TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES In this report I want to explain what are the three major smartphone operating systems and their features. The contents of this paper will describe the different design features of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s WindowsPhone operating systems and why the consumers favor them. If you have any questions you can contact me at 409344-0867 or at nuthaky.phani@gmail.com Respectfully yours, Phani Nuthaky TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Page I. INTRODUCING THE REPORT 1 A. What is a smart phone? 1 B. Key smart phone features 1 C. What is a smart phone operating system? 2 II. WHY IS ANDROID THE TOP SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM? 3 A. What users love in Android? 3 B. Some of the drawbacks of Android 4 III. iOS APPLE’S SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 5 A. Features of iOS 5 B. Setbacks of iOS 6 IV. WINDOWS PHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 6 A. Top features of Windows Phone 7 B. Trade offs of Windows Phone 8 IV. SUMMING UP THE SMARTPHONE OS COMPARISON 9 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Graphic Page TABLE 1 Top Smartphone Platforms 11 TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES I. INTRODUCTION A. What is a smart phone? A smartphone (or smart phone) is a mobile phone with...
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...Smart phone OS. Market Analysis Presented By Ehab Hesham & Mostafa Abdelfattah Tentative outline 0f the market analysis ❖ Objectives. ❖ Introduction. ❖ Market Volume. ❖ Company Portfolio. ❖ Our Product. ❖ Market Share. ❖ Market Type. ❖ Factors affect Supply. ❖ Factors affect Demand. ❖ Supply. ❖ Demand. ❖ Supply and Demand. ❖ Elasticity ❖ Conclusions ❖ References Objectives Studying the smart phones operating systems and analyze its market will make us understand the differences between the many Operation systems available in the market, and found out the factors affecting the supply of the different operation systems with different manufacturers. It will also allow us to find out the factors affecting the demand of it by the customers, and rational the dynamic changes in market shares of every producer. It will also define the aggressive competition between the smart phone manufacturers, and the high barriers that make it difficult for new manufacturers to enter the market despite of the great growth of the market which is providing large opportunities Introduction As with many electronics industries, the smartphone industry is rapidly changing and highly Competitive, new and distinctive products are being developed continuously, and released almost weekly. ...
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...Situational Analysis Strengths As it has become increasingly clear there is a new, exciting, and booming market for Tablets with over 4 million units1 purchased and more selling everyday. Research in Motion has long dominated the business world and is widely known for their innovating product, which has now sold over 60 million units worldwide, the BlackBerry. Now as an addition build upon the BlackBerry a new product the Playbook tablet is set to hit stores in early 20112 in an attempt to catch on to the tablet phenomenon. As this new market of tablets has competitors lining up to release their own versions of the tablet RIM is facing growing concerns of impeding competition in their steady enterprise market. They are faced with the growing technological convergence of communications, entertainment and business tools as well as the growing over lap of personal and business uses for these tools. RIM’s Palybook could potentially take a strong presence in the tablet market by focusing on the strengths that RIM has already established and taking advantage of the current gaps in Apple’s iPad model which currently dominants the tablet market. RIM has established themselves as the front-runners in the enterprise world. This was accomplished by meeting the extreme requirements of security and reliability needed to govern an entire business network3. The Playbook simple builds upon an IT structure that is already established in almost every major corporation by tethering to a BlackBerry...
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...world of instant messaging (guess buying your peers ain’t enough : P). Facebook recently rolled out updates for its Messenger app for Android and iOS users. For Android, the Facebook Messenger app has been updated to version 4.0, and for iOS to version 4.1. Can this be a game changer? Let’s find out! The Android update introduces features seen in the Facebook Messenger 4.0 for iOS released in end of March. This includes group messaging, as well as photo & message forwarding. The interface has been redesigned, and provides a great user experience. Also, much like WhatsApp, users can now pin contact shortcuts to their home screens - a feature also available in the new iOS app. You create a shortcut icon of any conversation with any of your friends and the shortcut will open that particular chat window directly. One feature that provides Facebook an edge over WhatsApp is the app's ability to make free calls (via Wi-Fi or mobile data) in all countries! Similar to Viber & Skype, users can call active friends without incurring any carrier charges. Had Facebook introduced video calls, it would have overpowered Apple’s FaceTime as well, hands down! Facebook Messenger showcases enough features to blast the competition. For instance, the Chat Heads feature alerts you when you have a new message: while you are using some other app, a bubble with the sender's face pops up, and you can access the chat by tapping the face. There's a good collection of free...
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...LITERATURE This chapter presents concepts, principles and facts related to the study. Related systems are also included as reference to gain more information and ideas to the study. Related Concepts Android The Android platform is the product of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of organizations collaborating to build a better mobile phone led by Google. Android is a complete operating environment based upon the Linux® V2.6 kernel. Initially, the deployment target for Android was the mobile-phone arena, including smart phones and lower-cost flip-phone devices (Ableson, 2009) Initially, Google Inc. bought Android Inc., new comers who make software for mobile phones. Then to develop Android, formed the Open Handset Alliance, in a consortium og 43 companies for hardware, software and telecommunications, including Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile and Nvidia (Sihabuddin, n.d). Android offers a sleek and stylish user interface that is highly user-friendly. Anyone can use its functions with ease and it offers a simple but brilliant palette of apps. Android releases its newer versions with improved functionality and usability with higher performance levels. At the same time, a continuous addition of apps to the Android App market makes it more popular among its users with every passing day. Android is designed in such a manner that it doesn’t affect the performance of your phone. It integrates very easily with the mobile phones adding up to its performance due...
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...Android devices enjoy a majority share in the total sales volume for all smartphones and tablets. This could be attributed to several reasons, the primary one being the fact that Android is an open-source product, which allows any handset manufacturer to adopt and modify it for their hardware devices. Secondly, the open-source philosophy makes its source code available to everyone, which is why it is easier to develop apps that run on the Android platform. However, Android did not start off as an operating system for mobile phones when the idea was conceived by Andrew Rubin, Chris White, Nick Sears and Rich Miner. The initial idea was to develop an intelligent operating system to handle digital cameras. Midway through the development, it was realized that the market for such a system was inadequate, which is why all the efforts were redirected to creating a mobile operating system. At that time, the market was dominated by Nokia's Symbian and Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating systems, none of which were open-source or open to development from individual app developers. The endeavor was quickly noticed and appreciated when Google took over the entire project and started developing the Android system on the Linux kernel. This became a huge turning point for Android, as the Linux-based kernel provided it with much-needed stability and security. After years of speculation regarding Google's intention to enter the mobile market, an "Open Handset Alliance" was formed that includes...
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...In recent decade the agile methods have been raised to develop systems with a certain short time spent on analyzing and designing (Sohaib & Khan, 2010). The methodology is important in the mobile software engineering because the software applications have been ever changed and depended on immediate user requirements. Therefore in order to satisfy customers in developing a well-designed application by means of a production process, agile methodology is adopted (Kaleel & Harishankar, 2013). After the launch of iPhone App Store in 2008, diverse other mobile companies started their advancement and launch of mobile applications. Google Company owned Android Inc. in 2005 with the aim to extend their business to include the mobile market. A critical...
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...1.0 Introduction Android has emerged as a new mobile development platform, building on past successes while avoiding past failures of other platforms. Designed to empower mobile software developers to write innovative mobile applications, Android is open source platform, with no up-front fees, and developers enjoy many benefits over other competing platforms. Touted as an innovative and open platform, Android is being positioned to address the growing needs of the mobile marketplace. To understand what makes Android so compelling, we must examine how mobile software development has evolved over time. 2.1 Background of the Study The Dominican College of Tarlac is located at Sto. Rosario St. Capas, Tarlac. The College of Computer Studies started its offer last June 2009 headed by Mrs. Carolina C. Sanchez. Course offered under College of Computer Studies are BSIT, Computer Programming, Computer Secretary, Computer Technician. The instructors/professors under this department namely; Mr. Ronaldo Bayani, Mr. Renmark Salalila, Mr. Christopher Tulabut, Mr. Charlie Tullao, Ms. Raechel Ann D. Capiz & Mrs. Jane Diaz 2.2 Overview of the Current State of Technology 2.3.1 Policies and Procedures * Announcement of Events CCS Instructors makes an announcement to students. * File Sharing CCS Instructors distribute handouts to students. 2.3.2 Problems of the Current System * Not every student knows the announcements because some of them...
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...| Stevenson UniversityGraduate SchoolBTM606 Creativity in Information SystemsIncreasing Productivity of the Print Management System | | Contents Table of Figures 2 Background Information 3 Problem Statement 4 Three Basic Principles Behind All Creative Thinking 4 Preparation Phase 6 Imagination Phase 8 Development Phase 9 Troubleshooting with Technology App on Tablet 10 Scenarios 10 Action Phase 12 Conclusion 13 Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 15 Bibliography 16 Table of Figures Figure 1 – HP All-In-One Printer 3 Figure 2 – Plesk’s Model of Directed Creativity 5 Figure 3 – Flowchart for Current Print Management System 7 Figure 4 – Six Thinking Hats 8 Figure 5 – New Print Management System Flowchart 13 Figure 1 – HP All-In-One Printer Background Information As part of the Digital Learning Initiative, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) contracted Hewlett-Packard (HP) for hybrid devices and all-in-one printers. HP was contracted to deliver, service, and maintain the HP revolve devices and the all-in-one networked printers to all central offices and school locations for BCPS. HP technicians removed all previously owned BCPS printer equipment and replaced them with HP networked all-in-one printers to be more cost effective and efficient. This new process was designed to fulfill Dr. Dance's vision to create budget savings that will allow BCPS to reallocate funding resources for the purchase of tablets/laptops for every teacher and...
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...SWOT anais method and examples, with free SWOT template The SWOT analysis is an extremely useful tool for understanding and decision-making for all sorts of situations in business and organizations. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Information about the origins and inventors of SWOT analysis is below. The SWOT analysis headings provide a good framework for reviewing strategy, position and direction of a company or business proposition, or any other idea. Completing a SWOT analysis is very simple, and is a good subject for workshop sessions. SWOT analysis also works well in brainstorming meetings. Use SWOT analysis for business planning, strategic planning, competitor evaluation, marketing, business and product development and research reports. You can also use SWOT analysis exercises for team building games. Note that SWOT analysis is often interpreted and used as a SWOT Analysis 2x2 Matrix, especially in business and marketing planning. In addition to this 2x2 matrix method, SWOT analysis is also a widely recognized method for gathering, structuring, presenting and reviewing extensive planning data within a larger business or project planning process. See also PEST analysis, which measures a business's market and potential according to external factors; Political, Economic, Social and Technological. It is often helpful to complete a PEST analysis prior to a SWOT analysis. In other situations it may be more useful to complete a PEST...
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