Ovum, a research firm, has announced that Android will be overtaking apple in the number of downloaded applications for the first time in the history of the companies. The research has indicated that by the end of this year, Android will have achieved 8.1 billion downloads, when compared to 6 billion downloads that will have been made through iOS mobile devices manufactured by Apple. This reflects a tremendous year of growth for both platforms, as last year’s download totals were 1.4 billion for Android and 2.7 billion for Apple iOS…
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Multi-Platform “Hybrid” Mobile Apps Emerge
Lotte Card, a credit card company from South Korea, has come up with a solution to the struggle faced by mobile app developers that has limited them to the choice of either developing apps that function over multiple platforms or coming up with a sophisticated custom app – but not both. Though mobile apps are already possible for multi-platform use, one of the most significant problems that are faced with their development is that there was a limit to the sophistication that was possible for apps that would function across…
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