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Apple iOS regains a lead in North America

Thursday, April 3, 2025 by Richard Harris

While Android powers the largest chunk of mobile web traffic, three times more than iOS, Apple has always been the largest player in North America, home to the largest number of iPhone and iPad users. However, the recent competition between iOS and Android in this region has been closer than ever, resulting in their smallest market share difference of only 1.1% in Decem...

Study Finds Developers Really Update Apps For Marketing Purposes

Thursday, July 9, 2015 by Richard Harris

A recent study by the UK’s Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) provides a strong argument that developers who update their apps frequently, may do so more for app marketing purposes than to improve an app’s functionality itself.The paper, Updates Management in Mobile Applications: iTunes vs Google Play, was authored by Stefano Comino - Universita di Udine (Italy); Fabio...

Apple vs. Android: Developing Secure Enterprise Apps

Friday, June 6, 2014 by James Seibel

Mobile Device Management (“MDM”) is an infrastructure protocol for executing privileged commands on mobile devices. In other words, MDM is an infrastructure technology that enables administrators to take full advantage of features already included on devices. The MDM specifications are provided by operating system designers, for example Apple and Google, and include gui...

Android is gaining on Apple for dev revenue earnings

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris

SAN FRANCISCO -- The mobile video game Kingdoms at War is popular with owners of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Google's (GOOG) Android smartphones alike. But for the game's maker, there is a very important difference -- it earns more than double the money on iPhones and iPads than it does on Android devices. The disparity is a weakness for...

iOS vs. Android developers, iOS still on top

Thursday, November 1, 2012 by Richard Harris

Study finds that iOS's lopsided developer revenue and Android fragmentation contribute to the disparity. (Credit: Flurry Analytics)Despite Android's greater share of the smartphone market, Apple's iOS continues to attract greater support from app developers.Nearly seven of every 10 apps being created in the first quarter of 2012 were for the iOS platform, with...