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In four years 30 percent of smartphones will include app stores, estimates research firm In-Stat in a report released this week.
The report also found that:
- iPhone users are by far the most active Apps store users, significantly outpacing users of Blackberry, Palm OS or Windows Mobile phones.
- Smartphone users overall are significantly more likely than feature phone users to leverage advanced mobile services, such as Internet access, music downloads, Instant Messaging, Email and Multimedia Messaging (MMS).
- 32 percent of survey respondents anticipated their next handset purchase would be a smart phone.
Headlines today are touting that Opera has passed up iPhone’s built-in browser for mobile web browsers worldwide, based on StatCounter’s report released today. What those posts don’t say is that it all depends on the country.
Worldwide Opera is No. 1 with iPhone behind. In the United States and United Kingdom iPhone is No. 1 with iPod Touch second. China has Nokia No. 1 (way ahead of the others) followed by Opera, Sony and iPhone. And, to throw in a really strange stat, in South Korea — 91 percent of mobile web browser use went through iPod Touch, with all the others muddled together in the single digit percentage range.
Sprint announces a developer outreach effort with an emphasis on location-based apps.
The company made the announcement today during the JavaOne conference in Kansas.
“We want developers to have the tools they need to create useful, engaging and exciting applications for our customers,” said Kevin Packingham, senior vice president of Product and Technology Development for Sprint.
The effort includes a developer sandbox open to all Sprint registered developers that includes Sprint network, handset and product capabilities. The sandbox is listed as for creating apps such as location-based services, messaging applications and others. Also, location aggregation providers, Alcatel-Lucent, LOC-AID and Useful Networks, are said to be on board to help developers make location-based apps.
Also, Sprint is opening its ninth annual Sprint Application Developer Conference, Oct. 26-28, to all developers for the first time.
Here’s the Sprint developer site for more information. Here’s the press release.
Apple today releases iTunes 8.2 — an update that readies the system for iPhone OS 3.0, MacRumors reports.
The post gives the update information displayed by Software Update: “iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes. For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 .”
This comes as signs are pointing to an iPhone OS 3.0 launch soon. When do you think it will launch?
Apple may charge users to re-download an app previously purchased, while re-downloading via iTunes would remain free.
Rene Ritchie on The iPhone Blog writes that this appears to only effect some users using 3.0 Beta firmware.
Ritchie says, “We’re guessing that with the on-device account management coming to iPhone 3.0 — where you can log in and out of multiple iTunes accounts right on your iPhone — Apple is putting this in place to prevent the sharing of purchases between accounts.”
Make sure to check out the iPhone Blog post for a screenshot, more information and to vote in a poll on the matter.
