Android continues to put in a powerful performance as measured by the share of mobile web consumption attributable to devices running Google’s operating system, as reported by the Quantcast (http://blog.quantcast.com/) research group. It’s also catching up to iOS in OS share of mobile web consumption in the US (though it still has a ways to go to catch up).
Read MoreAndrew Eisner, Retrevo.com’s director of Community and Content, predicts the next platform for apps will be connected TVs. Retrevo sees a living room where TV viewers click on a weather app or sports app instead of watching the local news.
A home where families play a board game together on the TV using the Monopoly app, or stay in touch with their friends with a FaceBook app, all from the comfort of the living room couch. Following are some of Eisner’s thoughts on the looming battler for the TV OS.
“Microsoft unlikely to win this battle
Read MoreDeutsche Telekom AG will lose exclusivity for the iPhone in Germany ahead of the l Christmas holiday shopping season, bringing the number of providers who sell the popular device in the country to three, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467252834463766.html?mod=googlenews_wsj), quoting “people familiar with the matter.”
Read MoreSMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com) has announced that CloudDav is now available to purchase for all registered users of the SMEStorage Gateway service, whether they are free or premium members.
CloudDav enables WebDav access for supported storage clouds, such as Amazon S3 and SkyDrive, even when the underlying storage cloud itself does not support it. This makes it ideal for being able to access documents via iPhone/iPad applications that support WebDav, such as Office2, from storage providers that are otherwise not supported, according to SMEStorage CEO Ian Oborne.
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By Andrew Eisner
Retrevo.com’s director of Community and Content
Everyone loves apps! A library of 225,000 iPhone/iPad apps and five billion downloads are impressive numbers for such a young platform and confirm the fast growing interest in apps-based computing.
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