Apple Abandons YouTube App, a major snub to Google!!! An overview of the strategy involved behind this move

Late Steve Jobs brought about a revolution in form of an iphone device which was introduced in 2007. Since then there’s no looking back!!! iphone has turned out to be the World’s best and most popular cell phones. Its most amazing feature is pre-installed YouTube application.

But it’s difficult to absorb the announcement of eliminating Google map apps. Apple confirmed that YouTube app won’t come in the beta version of iPhone and iPad software iOS 6. In other words, apple has decided to abandon YouTube app from iOS6 just like they decided to do away with Google map apps. After the shocking announcement Apple and Google gave their respective statements:

Apple -

“Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be introduced on the App Store.”

Google –

         “We are working with Apple to ensure we have the best possible YouTube experience for iOS users"

Late Steve Jobs Vowed for their Rivals –

Steve Jobs vowed till his 'last dying breath' to destroy iPhone rival, Android in a 'thermonuclear war'. Embarked (tactics to beat Android) on a war against Google and Android, suing companies who have adopted the software for their phones or tablets

It is disbelieving after sharing a bitter experience with Apple, Google has still decided to go ahead and give a helping hand to Apple.

Sharma says”, It's not a secret there's some tension between the two companies.”

So Many Unanswered Questions Coming in Mind:   

• Why has Apple dumped YouTube app after doing the same with Google map app?
• What is the inner motive of Apple against Google and Androids?
• Why is Google working for apple in spite of so much bitterness?
• Will Google develop their own apps in substitute for these services and launch them for iOS6?
• What about the user’s who run iOS5 and older version software?  Will they still be able to use YouTube app?
• Will the HTML5 version of YouTube do better than beta iOS6 version?
• Will Apple develop their own apps for YouTube and Google map in future?
• Is Google wishing to make money from its YouTube advertising?
• Will Google need Apple’s help to advertise for YouTube?
• Will Android follow Google?
• Who is going to suffer more, Apple or Google after this announcement?

The answers to the above are still awaited either from Apple Inc. or Google team. However, one is sure for some great announcements and anticipates an amazing app experience in future for iPhone and iPad users. Am sure it would be a worth waiting experience!!!

Which Improved features a users will get in iOS 6?

Nowadays, there are many iphone users who are connected with iPhone from the very long period of time and they all are always waiting for some new and modern advancement in the same field. Apple’s iPhone is one of the most popular smart phone devices in comparison to other smart phones device including Android, Blackberry and Windows. As the passage of time, the operating system of iphone is also becoming advanced and introduced with some extra and advanced features and functionalities. The proficient crew of iPhone application developer is also working well in the development of latest iOS version.

The launch of iOS 6 will be one of the best and it is coming with many sophisticated features and functionalities. This latest iOS 6 version will be compatible in iPhone 3S, iPhone 4 & 4S, iPad 2 & 3 and iPod touch of 4th generation. It will bring a huge revolutionary change in lives of users who are using these smart devices of Apple. With the help of this iOS, a user can able to do his routine work better.

The following are some of the applications over which developer are going to improve apps’ functionalities and made it more advanced through iOS 6:-

Maps - Maps will totally offer the users a new and modern world of imagination. It will come up with vector components so the graphics and text will be shown clearly. The Maps application of iPhone will offer the 3D display view to its users and Google is also marching its’ game to compete with Apple.

Shared Photo Streams - With the help of this, a user can share his favorite photos with his selected friends or colleagues. A user simply needs to select photos or images from the Photos app and just need to tap on share button. Your friends and colleagues can view your shared photos on the web if they don’t have any Apple device. They can like the any individual photos and can also make comments on it.

Passbook - A user can use Passbook in order to acquire movie tickets, boarding passes, loyalty cards, retails coupons and vouchers and many more. With the help of Passbook, a user can examine his iphone or ipod touch device to book a movie ticket, to check-in for flight and to acquire benefits of any coupon or voucher.

Phone - This iOS 6 will add new calling feature to iPhone. A user can now reject his incoming call, can schedule reminder for callback and can also send instant text messages. Once while doing these if a user finds that it is very frantic, he just need to activate his Do not disturb service and he would not be get bothered by any person.

Mail - Mailing through iOS 6 will give a very pleasing experience to the users. It is now redesigned with many updated interfaces and elements in order to make reading and writing easy. Mail in iOS 6 will help the users to create separate and important lists of contacts.

Safari - iOS 6 will offer better web browsing experience to iphone, ipod and ipad users. iCloud helps in keeping the track of which web pages a user have visit on his device and he can keep continue where he left off on any handheld apple device. It is really too good that Safari browser now saves or stores web pages not in links form but in reading list or display, so a user can go thru that reading section even if he is not connect to the Internet.

In this way, iOS 6 will be simply amazing and incredible for the people who are using the smart devices of Apple and they are eagerly waiting for its launch.

Advanced Features of iPhone iOS 5

This era is considered as the era of smart mobile phones and among the various smart mobile phones available in the mobile market iPhone is considered as the most popular and remarkable mobile device all over the world. The operating system developed by Apple for its smart devices was known iPhone Operating System but now it is known by iOS and Apple keeps on launching the latest and more advanced version of the same at regular period of time. As per the Worldwide Developer Conference of 2012, it was held that at the end of March, Apple sold out 365 million iOS devices all over the world which is really amazing.

There are millions of people who are using smart phones of diverse mobile platforms. There are more than 80% iphone users using the very latest version iOS i.e. iOS 5 which is comparatively too good in comparison to Android. On the other side, there are only 7% Android users using the latest version of Android operating system. So the process of developing the latest version of iOS is also important like the process of iPhone app development. The main reason behind this popularity may be the wonderful features of iOS 5.

Push Notifications:- There are thousands of social apps available for the smart devices of Apple. 84 social apps from the top 100 are pushing notifications and users are sending more than 7 billion push notifications per day. It is really good to heard that Apple has already sent 1.5 trillion push notification to every user.

iMessage:- iMessenger is also one of the good features of iOS 5 used for messaging and chat. There are over 140 million users using the feature of iMessage and they have sent more than 150 billion messages and presently sending more than 1 billion messages per day.

Twitter:- Twitter is the best for social networking and using such social networks on mobile gives different experience in comparison to using it on PC or desktops. The number of iOS users using twitter has increased by 3 times and the same users have already sent 10 billion tweets from their iOS 5 device. Apart from tweeting the users have also shared their photos and the users have shared 47% photos through twitter’s photo service that comes from iOS 5.

Gaming Standard:- Gaming standard is a great gaming network and there are more than 130 million users are connected with the gaming standards and getting 5 billion scores every single week and 67 games from the top 100 are integrated with gaming standards.

These all features shows that how much users are attracted by the devices based on iOS 5 and how much they are satisfied with it. Existing iPhone iOS users are very eager to use the latest and more advanced version of iPhone operating system.

Points which will make you think whether to Invest in Mobile Web Development or not!

Mobile web development is slowly making its position and becoming essential tool for many business organizations to reach their target audience through effective medium of mobile phone. Though Mobile application development is becoming more popular and demanding in the mobile market but one should also give equal importance to the service of Mobile web development. Many companies optimize their traditional websites into mobile website to cop up with latest trend. Of course developing or having mobile website is beneficial to newly established businesses to get access to huge customer base across the globe hassle free, also it is very cost effective and less time consuming to develop any mobile web compare to traditional website.

Apart from some benefits that one can achieve through mobile web, there are some major pitfalls associated with mobile web development which will make you think whether to invest in mobile web development or not. Here below are some of the major negative points discussed which will help you to make right decision.

• Mobile web industry has started in most recent years and it is constantly changing & expanding day by day. Whenever any new device launched in market, you need to make changes in your mobile website to match up with latest devices. As it is in growing phase, you can’t expect to develop mobile site once and leave it the way it is!

• One of the major pitfalls is its screen resolutions! No doubt people love to surf through their smart phones but sometime it is not feasible for websites, as there are very small pages and difficult to navigate. If your website contains information needed more navigation than it could annoy users and may left your website in the mid.

• If you plan to incorporate flash or Javascript within your mobile web than it could cause problem to load the pages of your website as many of the mobile devices never support JavaScript or flash or any other plugins. Most of the latest devices are configured with browsers which supports flash or Javascript but though such problems arises in some devices.

• Though people use internet in their mobile device more than traditional computers, but one can't deny the fact that internet connections for mobile devices are very slow and one can't get feel of accessing internet with higher speed.

• Accessing last visited pages could be problem in mobile web for some devices.

• Improper or inappropriate mobile web design could lead in failure from the beginning and may lead to loss business and ROI as well.

So, these are some of the major pitfalls which will make you think whether to invest in mobile web development or not.

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Different Mobile Application Testing Tools

Mobile application development is achieving new highs everyday and becomes talk of the town these days. People or users are getting more ‘n’ more involved with their smart phone devices and expecting quality applications from developers, these put lot of pressure on mobile application developers to pay much more attention on the applications or websites they develop for mobile. It becomes necessary to test your mobile applications carefully to provide error free apps to the mobile user.

Testing of a mobile application is totally different from traditional testing. But thanks to readily available mobile automation and testing tools which can help you out to check quality of mobile app as well as mobile websites. This leads me to list out some of the prominent testing tools available in the market which will assist mobile app developers in their application testing.

• Android Emulator:- It is basically a virtual mobile app which can be operated from your computer. It helps in modeling, implementing and testing of your android applications. You don’t need to use any real device for testing your app.

It includes all the basic functions and features of traditional mobile devices but you can’t make calls or receive any on it! It shows your mobile app on one screen.

• FoneMonkey:- It is most popular iOS testing tool all around the globe. It offers great functionality to record, edit and playback UI tests to perform testing for iphone apps. Now, they have launched MoneyTalk cross platform for testing iPhone and Android app from one tool but still it is not officially launched.

• W3C MobileOK Checker:- As it name suggests, it basically allows you to check your mobile apps compatibility with mobile devices by performing different kind of test on it. Basically checks for mobile web pages.

• TestComplete:- It very well known mobile application testing tool. It allows fully automated testing for various mobile apps quality. It can record tests, tests can be manually created and than can be used for automated playback and error or bug checking.

• Keynote DeviceAnywhere:- This testing tool offers modeling, testing and monitoring the usability, performance and functionality of the various mobile applications and mobile websites.

Apart from above mentioned testing tools, there are lots of other testing tools like iPhoney, DotMobi Emulator, BlackBerry Simulator, M-Eux, IBBDemo etc. Hope this information helps mobile application developers to choose right testing tools.

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Focusing On Niches Business with Android Application Development

On top of the competition came economic need and now entrepreneurs are not only defending in making good profits but also they want to remain afloat in the market and to device new and innovative means to achieve success.

The world around us has been changing constantly in great pace with new technologies and innovations being continuously made on regular basis and instead of old and easy times, now we have been going tough competitions and standards and challenges for those who want to go ahead and remain ahead of others and it has lead to businesses looking for the ways to stay ahead of in the competition and their competitors and finding new means to gain expertise in their ways.

Almost every business across the world is definitely looking for the way of business growth by developing new categories and to lead the market by adopting agile and aggressive development techniques. Hence, the crucial aspect for all this is to break the ground in a right way for niche market to get optimum results and adapt the latest technology to come up in this regard is Android application development which is offering many unexplored avenues and excellent platforms for businesses that are looking forward to target their niche.

Android applications are great in providing developers an exceptional, humble and clearly observable difference to notice when it comes to mobile apps platform then it is a bit non-hardware designated platform which is capable of giving robust application development support in a very economical way and can hit various layers of consumer segments in one go at the time of the business of developing Android applications is new then it is flexible and can be customized which is the main reason why developers prefer this mode of technology when it comes to apps and programs. This is clear indicative of the fact that niche targeting has been made completely easy with Android application development in more recent years.

Also, because the Android applications is relatively new, greatly flexible and can be customized at very easily and because of that they are preferred by developers and it is capable of targeting the niche market very effectively by taking help of android application development.

The best thing is that with the help of android applications, each business can easily target their niche as it gives them the opportunity for growth and profits they need for their development in business so in other words, Android application development has greatly increased the market for niche targeting very effectively.

All that it is available here for making the Android applications a success for niche targeting which is a capable app that is excellent enough for drawing visitors and its utility and functionality by keeping their attention focused for better results and greater profit.

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The Brief Comparison Of iPhone And Android Application Development

From the older version of SDK to the latest version of Android, the Android has marked a journey of rapid development showcasing its great talent in the global market. Leaving behind some of the leading mobile business organizations the Android mobile application development solution have acquired the second largest market share all over the world and because of the lot changed has taken place in recent times. However, the one thing that is still not changed is the rapid pace at which new tools, resources and information are becoming available to developers today.

So far the Android has been supportive and it launched its set of classes to demonstrate best practices which guides for the great apps building and moving further the experts are constantly working hard towards helping and making developers more knowledgeable through its latest Android design site. The site is very informative and it includes good comprehensive information and the list of do's and don'ts while executing the task of android application development and multiple platforms.

Along with the giving constant instructions and suggestions to the developers about its new features the website also makes sure that Android developers residing all over the world should connect and post their experience and tips make knowledge more usable and solidify the platform's base and for the Google Hangout is available to the developers for Android community to help them all interact closely. If you consult with the developers about getting information on which is better platform while comprising the iPhone or Android, most of the expert developers suggest that "it just depends".  No doubt that Android is having a great demand in the mobile apps development and it is caring half the market share. The preferable platform for the mobile application development depends on three major factors which are ease of development, the approval of the application and revenue generation capacity.

Android has use the Java for platform which allows great comfort to the developers who are having Java background as they will have development ease and iPhone have adopted the much older Objective C language for its platform and this is comfortable and easy to apply even in the most complex scenarios. One needs to remember that Java collects the garbage for you and in the case of iPhone you have to clean it manually.

The smart mobile phone industry is heavily shared by the two software giant’s Google and Apple. Apart from Apple and Android Development Company there are rest of the companies which includes Windows and Blackberry and they are finding it hard to get big success because of that reason they are constantly thriving for space.

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