App Developers for Android – Google-Based Smart Phones – Are Seeing a way to Catch Apple iPhone Store Apps
Android application developers could create applications or apps that make a person’s lie easier, such as something the helps them locate a person, place or thing; or an entertaining app which would be a game. In addition, there are money saving apps like coupons many local and regional businesses that sell products and service could send out to a customer via an app.
An Android app developer and companies that develop apps have come up with around 18,000 different apps to make life easier, entertaining and more affordable fore the Nexus One and Android users through the Droid Marketplace. Of course these app developers have an up hill climb because the Apple iTunes store has over 10,000 apps to choose from and counting, but they have been at it longer. One thing that may help to equal out the giant cap between the two app stores is that Google is not vetting their apps while Apple does. This slows the process and many say that a closed style system allows for more apps being turned down because they may not fully agree with Apples’ philosophy or could hurt Apples feelings.
So far, the Android smart-phones, which are a operating system available to any phone company who wants to build their own technology around the phone, has only garnered just under 4 percent of worldwide download shares while it’s biggest competition, the Apple iPhone received 17 percent, a big difference. However, Gatner, the technical research and consulting firm, says this will begin to change later this year.
Existing Android-based manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and Motorola will be joined by in the next couple of months by Samsung Erickson and LG Electronics. Furthermore, app developers for Android will be ramping up their production of a sleek new handset so that by 2012, Android smart-phones will no doubt be the second-largest smart-phone platform worldwide with an estimated 18 percent of the market, second only to Nokia – the cell phone that started it all; this according to Gatner.
Leading the way is the Motorola Droid – a hybrid of the Android – which is available through Verizon Wireless. Flurry, an app analysis firm, Verizon sold more than 250,000 Droid devices the first week of it’s availability in addition to being named Time magazines top gadget for that year.