Tag: android

Android Beam could be Google’s next phenomenon

Julie Campbell
Android mobile commerce

Google’s NFC projects overshadowed by its other endeavors in technology The Google I/O developers conference may be over, but the technologies unveiled during the event are still causing quite a buzz. The even brought together some of the world’s leading software and technology developers and introduced them to new projects that Google had been working on. Amidst an ambitious and stunt-prone demonstration of Google’s augmented reality projects and news of the next generation of Android operating systems, dubbed Jelly Bean, the company’s other endeavors received relatively little attention. One of…

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The harm being caused to Android by monetization issues

Jesse Collins
Mobile marketing strategy

According to a Flurry report, the platform is being killed by low developer revenues. Flurry has released the results of its mobile marketing study, which has shown that Android is suffering from a serious monetization issue, as its developers are being paid only 24 cents for every dollar made by those for iOS. Flurry’s vice president of marketing, Peter Farago, explained that there are three primary reasons that are causing the monetization gap at Android. Android payments are not seamless, as Google Wallet has not spread rapidly enough. The Google…

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Orange expands availability of Quick Tap application to Android devices

Sam Lambert
Quick Tap NFC technology service mobile payments service

Quick Tap to enter the Android market UK telecommunications company Orange has announced that its popular Quick Tap NFC service will find its way to some Android mobile devices in the coming weeks. Quick Tap was the first NFC service to come to the UK and is the result of a partnership between Orange and Barclaycard, one of the country’s largest financial institutions. Quick Tap has been somewhat popular in the UK for its ability to facilitate mobile payments. The availability of the Quick Tap application was limited, however, and…

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Apple iOS loses more market share to Android

John Montgallo
Apple vs Android mobile marketing

According to Strategy Analytics, while Apple continues to hold 58 percent of the market, Android, the operating system by Google, has moved in significantly on territory formerly held by iOS, and now has a global share of 39 percent. An important part of this movement has been credited to tablets, as Google tablets took an additional 10 percent of the market between the last quarters of 2010 and 2011, while Apple’s hold on that market fell by a smaller amount. Some of Google’s ability to take a larger chunk out…

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Android moves into iPad’s former territory with the help of Amazon’s Kindle Fire

Sam Lambert
Mobile Commerce

According to data from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm, Google can credit the sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire with the significant growth of the Android operating system’s market share in 2011’s last quarter. The new Flurry data was based on measurements of app sessions on over 90 percent of devices running on Android. It indicated that between the fourth quarters of 2010 and 2011, Android gained an additional 10 percent of the tablet market share, so that it now sits at 39 percent, overall. The Kindle Fire tablet hit the…

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