I’ve flagged the VisionMobile blog before as worth watching, and the analysts have just announced the completion of their 2Q 2013 developer survey. With 6,000 respondents, they claim it to be the biggest developer (mobile, presumably) survey globally.
The sneak preview of data, ahead of full publication in…
Our components editor, David Manners, offers a glimmer of hope for the future of Android tablets, not a particularly thriving sector of the Android domain. He writes: Tablet sales will grow to 283m units a year by 2016 from 122m units this year and 172m units next year, reports IDC…
An interesting story on The Guardian looks at Smartphone data usage. The data was provided by App Annie (“Apps. Stats. Insights.”) and provides a geographic and revenue breakdown of the Android and iOS platforms. The main take away is that Android still lags iOS significantly in terms of revenue generation…
How fast should the takeup of the latest Android versions increase each month? This question is always provoked with the release of Google’s stats for its various Android platforms. How fast is reasonably fast? See its developers blog for the latest platform-split figures. (“Data collected during a 7…
One to note for posterity, perhaps – a story of more symbolic than practical significance…
According to Gartner, Android will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft Windows within four years, writes Nicole Kobie on PC Pro.
Apparently by the end of 2016 there will be 2.3 billion devices…
Just a (belated) FYI – Google has updated its usage stats for the Android platform, detailing market share across the variants. Nothing very surprising, month on month: the older platforms diminishing, very slowly, and ICS advancing, quite quickly… Check out the full figures on the Android Dashboard…
A stick often used to beat Android is the fragmentation of the OS across various devices. And in particular, the slowness with which new platform updates emerge across the market. Take, for instance, the latest monthly stats from Google that show an uptake of 1.2% for its latest and…
Apparently, Android users pay less for apps than iOS users. But apparently this is now changing, somewhat…
A new report by mobile keyboard specialist Swiftkey – of 14,000 Android users – indicates that 93 per cent of Android phone owners are buying apps as opposed to just downloading free ones…