Archive for the ‘iPhone Apps’ Category

Dec 22

Because for Apple the market from China is extremely important because there generate a great deal of company revenues. We not talk just about the actual sales and purchases of products but because of China App Store download almost as many applications as the U.S., when we talk about the iPad tablets.

At the downloading made on iPhone devices the difference is greater on the figures but if we see that in the U.S. and China are separated by only a few percent and Apple increased discharges of China it means a large increase in revenues.

The information are coming from the Distimo company that announce that a half of the profit for the iPhone’s App Store is generated by 200 free applications that through the freemium model generate very good profit for developers. In-app purchase is those that bring big money for Apple and those of Distimo figures speak for themselves.

The company made a top that lists the best applications of 2011 and ranks on first place Angry Birds which is available on many platforms and generates profit for its producers. Interestingly, in this top 10 there is any applications that are available on all major mobile platforms.



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Nov 24

Find My iPhone is a free service offered by Apple that allows iDevice owners to locate their device on the map, to block it, send a message to him and remove the entire contents if it is necessary. Apple has designed this service in the idea of helping users to find a lost or a stolen iPhone, and with the application help were caught thieves, were rescued victims of aviation incident and of course found many iPhones.

The service requires that your iDevice to have GPS on all the time and have an active internet connection to allow taking orders. I can say that I do not use the application “Find My iPhone” because the battery life is pretty much affected when GPS is always kept open and I prefer to have a good range instead of always being accessible on a map.

For others the autonomy falls secondary to the security offered by “Find My iPhone”, and I wonder how good the service is. I write a few months ago an article about “Find My iPhone”, so I come with the next question: How useful is for you the service “Find My iPhone”?



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Nov 05

iOS 5 has brought very many changes for users and developers, but a good portion of them were presented by Apple. One very important has to do with how the application saves the data in cache and how the cache is deleted. Apple has iOS 5 removal system cache automatically when the available space from our device falls below a certain value. When that value is reached, the system goes off and deletes all the cache with all data from it. With iOS 5 this does not happen and in cache were stored important data and saved by Instapaper, for example, to read offline.

A common scenario: an Instapaper customer is stocking up an iPad for a long flight. She syncs a bunch of movies and podcasts, downloads some magazines, and buys a few new games, leaving very little free space.

Basically iOS 5 delete all the cache along with data from device when the available space reaches a certain value. In iOS 5 Apple solved the problem by giving users the developers can mark certain files so that removal system to move over them and leave them in the system. Change is important because in applications such as Instapaper saved articles will remain there but the same little thing is going to happen and many other data available in our iDevice.



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Oct 31

WhatsAppMessenger is one of the most popular applications from App Store, being in a few months on the first places among the most purchased applications. Users love the application as it allows them to send text messages to any other owner of the iDevice owners but handsets with other operating systems installed.

The mobile messaging market is moving, choices around platforms and their pricing and how they provide an amazing customer experience are the hot topics at hand. As a leader in the messaging space and with our network now handling over one billion messages a day, we see that the power is with the consumer.

The application is popular worldwide and currently more than 1 billion messages are sent every day using the corporate network developer, is truly impressive figure considering that we are talking about an application that costs only € 0.79 and competing with iMesage.

I thought iMessage it would be left forgotten WhatsAppMessenger application but users still use it here and even more than usual so its developers have nothing to fear that soon will no longer be an option worthy of consideration.



Sep 03

From this article you will find how the voice commands system works by Google available in the App Store from several years. Google gives us the opportunity to say with voice the command when we put the device  to ear and the application automatically search on the Google search engine. The system is activated automatically when the terminal is taken from the ear to allow the user to utter, simple controls and easy, just like they talk on the phone.

Apple plans to implement a similar system in iOS 5 but it will use Siri system developed by the same name acquired last year by Apple. Syria will do exactly the same things but it has some additional functions, namely to enable users to purchase online using a simple voice commands or to reserve their tickets to a movie. Apple basically wants to bring in iOS 5 what Android has for some time but Apple implement will be slightly different and will have more features.

The information about implementing of this new system come from 9to5mac who were found inside the iOS file system some information that indicates how the whole system will be implemented. Of course the implementation of a beta and a final release version is much better, but Apple would make a big step forward by implementing this system.



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