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Apple's Iphone app store is challenged by rivals
THE WALLED GARDEN that is Apple's Iphone app store is getting a good kicking by rival app stores run by Google, RIM and Nokia.
According to research company Distimo, the Android Market had the highest rate of overall growth, reaching 130,000 applications by 31 December or more than six times the number at the end of 2009.
Nokia's free applications increased by nine-fold, helping its total applications to more than triple to 25,000. This makes it the third-biggest apps line-up after Apple and Android.
While Apple's Iphone catalog includes almost 300,000 applications it is not growing at the same rate. Most new Iphone apps were for business, while the competitors added media and entertainment applications to counter Apple's dominance of the music and books markets.
Analysts Hendrik Koekkoek and Gert Jan Spriensma wrote that Blackberry's app store more than tripled in size last year to 18,000 apps, according to Distimo. Apple's Iphone offerings doubled.
The market share of free applications rose while the price of paid applications fell, the analysts said. Among the top 100 applications, prices declined by an average of nine per cent at the Android Market and by 61 per cent at Nokia's Ovi Store. The proportion of applications costing more than $5 fell to 15 per cent as of 31 December from 21 per cent a year earlier, Distimo said. µ
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I will only comment on your last paragraph saying that you're partially right but only from an Apple's share holder's point of view.
10% market share should only concern Steve Jobs and his partners and has nothing to do with me, the end user who prefers that extra simplicity and a little extra security from a computer you mention. I like using their products so far and that X% market share does not affect my user experience nor plays any part in my purchasing factors.
High prices are for a good reason and there is something that people usually rush to overlook having in mind just CPU speed numbers and specs/charts. An aluminium+glass body laptop is going to be more expensive than a cheap plastic model usually offered by the competition. But even that comes down to personal taste. You might prefer a faster computer in the same price range rather than one built with quality material exteriors. I however don't fall in the first category. I want something with enough processing power for the specific things I do, but I want it to be made of durable materials that will last me a long time of use. Quadriple CPU's and huge amounts of RAM are things I personally not going to use. Others of course might require them, nothing wrong with that.
You always get what you pay for, gaining some things, losing other. There are always compromises made. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford anything.
How is playing Chess productive?
How is solving a math problem productive?
What do either of these activities produce? Some satisfaction if you win or the problem is solved, but what if you lose or cannot solve it?
Still nothing productive.
Also, what's wrong with playing chess on a computer, does that make you get "dumper"?
I am being a bit of an ass because I know what you're trying to say. You're trying to say to the other commenter not to be so shallow and for him to spend some time improving his brain power, or something, right?
We are here reading and commenting on an article in The Inquirer. Need I say more? ;-)
Joeb has a point too. His is that Apple products make tasks easier to do. This a good thing for most people. Why make things harder to do than they need to be? It's something Microsoft need to learn otherwise they will soon be number 2 or 3 in the desktop charts.
But also Apple has a problem in that they are very restrictive about anyone else's products on their machines. This helps security, but it also stifles growth and competition. In then it's partly why Apple always struggled to get above 10% market share on the desktop. High prices is another area where Apple is weak.
Joeb do you consider yourself smart because you like to spend extra hours in front of a computer? This is the most ridiculous comment I've read for years! So I assume the rest of us who use a computer for work and little entertainment are totally idiots? If you want to become smarter try doing something more productive rather than burning your braincells watching YouTube.
Try playing chess or solving a math problem. The more you use a computer, the dumper you get. Your comment above proves my point...
It's only a matter of time before all these other companies pass Apple.
Is it any wonder why the iPhone is now on two carriers?
Competition is catching up and doing it REAL fast.
Apples a wheelchair for people that are technologically challenged and wish they knew tech. Its slowest member of the heard mentality. Instead of people getting smarter and putting effort into learning something apple dumbs the whole experience down for you fanbois.
This is not exactly a good kicking. If you want to see what one of those looks like why don't you say these things in the Pret on Wardour Street.
Exactly what does 'walled garden' mean?
For example someone who owns an android phone can purchase apps from the ovi store or the blackberry?? Do you even know why you're using this term?
However, it's been nearly 4 months I hear the android store is reaching 130000 applications... still not quite there? These claims of overwhelming growth against apple's store are pure hype.
But it's funny how people used to talk about quality over quantity when the android store was miniscule, and now suddenly everybody are interested in numbers...
As far as I'm concerned, food catering company google has still to bake tons of 'bread' to even scratch Apple.
Was how MANY (or even what percentage) iOS apps were added during the year. It's all very well smugly saying that, say, the Apple App store ONLY grew by 50% ignoring the fact that this would equal the total number of apps added to all the other stores. Growth rate and growth number together are important.
Lacking this important info I can surmise that the article is intended purely as flame bait.