Posted by: altabel on: January 19, 2012
It’s well known that Android is fragmented or, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt contends, “Differentiated.” In a bid to codify design principles for the operating system’s look and feel, Google unveiled Android Design at CES 2012. This website seeks to help app developers create apps with a more uniform look and feel for Android 4.0, [...]
Posted by: altabel on: January 13, 2012
As shipments of Android phones reached 206 million in 2011, Google’s mobile OS captured 46 percent of the global market, easily making it the largest Smartphone platform, according to Taiwan’sMarket Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC). Such growth paves the way for Android to carve out a 50 percent slice of the market in 2012, says [...]
Posted by: altabel on: December 19, 2011
We know that Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Both are real blockbusters, and we don’t need to find any reason why they can’t simultaneously thrive for years to come. At the moment, with WebOS undergoing an open-source reboot and RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry OS apparently nowhere near completion, only one other phone platform has an immediate [...]
Posted by: altabel on: December 16, 2011
Microsoft might have sold hundreds of millions of Windows 7 licenses, and Apple might be managing to persuade tens of millions of people to buy iOS-powered devices every quarter, but the real winner when it comes to operating systems in 2011 as been Android, Google’s mobile operating system. Based on the Linux kernel, Android is [...]
