by Scott Judson
Owner of Judson Steel, an iOS development studio based in Auckland
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Flurry reports every dollar of iOS revenue, developers only get 24 cents from Android. Peter Farago, VP of Marketing at Flurry, thoughts on the mobile platform wars.
Farago also believes that Google will have a hard time fixing the problem, it goes against the company’s DNA. Google wants to create highly scalable, frictionless systems. Consequently, it’s the “anti-customer service company;” search engines don’t have help lines. Apple and Amazon, on the other hand, have customer and retail in their DNA, it is a critical aspect of their user experience.
Closing Android’s monetization gap, therefore, is not only a cultural challenge, but an inherent issue with the platform’s business model.
Is it a Condom or is it an Android?
Des Traynor creates this chart and and offers some free brand and marketing 101, “If your product isn’t a condom then don’t name it like one.”
H/T: Business Insider.
Android Design files for Ice Cream Sandwich, including Roboto, their new typeface.
Amazon’s go-to-market strategy for the Kindle Fire is ground breaking among the Android guard. With its offering, Amazon takes the focus away from the device and operating system, emphasizing content, a differentiated consumer experience and commerce. (via Amazon Lights the Android World on Fire)
At the recent Le Web conference in France, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt declared that “Android is ahead of the iPhone now.” According to Schmidt, Android’s success is due to “unit volume, Ice Cream Sandwich,” because “the price is lower” and because “there are more vendors.”
Yet developers still shy away from it.
Why? The largest single factor that appears to impact developer support for the platform is the consumer’s ability to pay, for every $1 a developer makes on in-app purchases on the iOS platform they make $0.24 on Android.
(via App Developers Bet on iOS over Android this Holiday Season)
According to the latest research from Nielsen, the high-profile launch of Apple’s iPhone 4S in the Fall had an enormous impact on the proportion of smartphone owners who chose an Apple iPhone. Among recent acquirers, meaning those who said they got a new device within the past three months, 44.5 percent of those surveyed in December said they chose an iPhone, compared to just 25.1 percent in October. Furthermore, 57 percent of new iPhone owners surveyed in December said they got an iPhone 4S. (via More US Consumers Choosing Smartphones as Apple Closes the Gap on Android | Nielsen Wire)
Welcome to Android Design, your place for learning how to design exceptional Android apps. (via Android Design - Welcome)
AppleInsider: Serious security flaws discovered in Android phones, Samsung and HTC ignore issuex
From the paper (PDF link) AppleInsider found:
By exploiting these leaked capabilities, an untrusted app on these affected phones can manage to wipe out the user data on the phones, send out SMS messages (e.g., to premium numbers), record user conversation, or obtain user geolocations all without asking for any permission.
In other words: Android OEMs are playing fast and loose with customer privacy and security when tinkering with Android’s underpinnings, adding features, or making modifications to suit their priorities.
(Source: chartier)
