Product Development Kit And Application Program Kit

HTC faces stiff competition with Apple and Samsung. Apple’s iPhone is considered as the benchmark of the industry and operators such as Spring is willing to pay $15.5 billion dollars to Apple just to have the right to sell iPhone. These demonstrates the popularity and the strength of iPhone. Furthermore, Apple’s iOS has much higher number of application downloads and higher revenue for the developers than the Android system. This signifies that developers with limited resources might only release their newest application for iOS. This is shown through the number of available apps for iOS against Android, with iOS having around 200,000 more apps than Android. This makes iOS more attractive than Android to the consumer. This in

There are many competing brands of smart phones and Samsung has reported a decline of profits in 2014. Information from GSM arena shows than Samsung released 54 new phone models in 2014 , compared with 24 by HTC , 11 Motorola and 2 by Apple, leading to increased production costs and lack focus on a specific customer segments thereby losing some of its competitive advantage (GSM Arena , 2015).The lack of popularity of its own OS (Tizen ) and dependence on Google’s Android platform makes it vulnerable on google to develop an “ecosystem”. There are component integration issues as well as loss revenue from potential App sales (Strategic Mangement insight , 2015). Negative publicity from litigation due to patents are likely to continue as technology patents are vague and Samsung with is large portfolio is likely to infringe on some of the patents (Tibken, 2014).

Executive summary Raising smartphone estimates Forecasting smartphones based on TCO Linking our TCO analysis to the addressable market Smartphone volumes to grow at CAGR of 26% Price point work also shows 1.1bn units long term Significant growth being seen in the low end A specific growth opportunity within China LTE could be a game changer Improving device availability LTE speeds could drive new services Coverage expansion of LTE networks Aggressive rollout plans in US and China An upgrade cycle like none before A war of ecosystems….. Apple – the iOS and Mac ecosystem Google/Android – a one trick pony? Windows 8 – what about the upgrade cycle? Developer dynamics are critical Smartphone economics Carriers have seen margin pressure Smartphone economics What can carriers do? Smartphones – winners and losers Apple scope for share gains exist on multiple fronts Samsung – a strong second Nokia – heading for third position in smartphones Multiple Android vendors may struggle HTC – still bleeding share Motorola Mobility/Google – losing steam in the US Sony – change of

Over the mid-year, Apple was offering a little more than half of the worldwide premium cell phones, and Samsung was offering just shy of 25%. By December 2016, those figures had developed to 70% and 17%, separately” (Richardson, 2017).

Android and iOS devices are the most seen on the market. Both offer different qualities and it depends on the users’ preference.

The device commonly regarded as the first to realise widespread success in the smartphone market was the Blackberry. However the handset, referred to as the ‘crackberry’ (Middleton, 2007) after the feeling of addiction many users felt towards it, was quickly joined in the market by companies such as Apple and Samsung. The intriguing market seems to be constantly evolving and is still an emerging market subject to multiple market forces. Many economic theories can be applied to this market including Monopolistic Competition, Platform Competition along with Network Effects and Tipping Points. The market has seen the evolution of smartphones from a keyboard based device with closed operating systems into thin, touch

Two operating systems currently dominate the smartphone market, Apple and Android. It all started six years ago when Google launched its android system. However, its approach was much different. Google had made just the software, not the device, giving the software free to phone makers to alter and adjust in anyway they pleased to fit their over 70 different phones. Google believed that by offering it free, in the long run would create more internet friendly phones and more ad views for Google. I think that this strategy was successful due to the fact that Android is the world’s most popular operating system loved by many smartphone users. My point here, that Android is the better operating system, than Apple, should interest those who are

The intent of this analysis is to define the differences between the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems, in addition to discussing the newest features for each. The Pros and Cons of each operating system are discussed, in addition to a chart of relative market share on smartphone and tablet PCs. In addition to relative market share, the number of application downloads will also be shown.

Apple could make future strides in the smartphone industry, if it can figure out a way to steal away some market share from BlackyBerry users. Many business users prefer the BlackBerry to all other smartphones in the industry.

With every passing day new innovations are being brought into the field if information technology. Things that have been old enough are always upgraded and renewed in order to make their use even more effective in use. The technology of android which has been introduced by the organization of Google has made life for all the smart phone users entertaining and easy at the same time. The applications brought forward by the different application developers are not only entertaining but are proven useful in many other aspects. Everything about a smart phone is enjoyable and entertaining. People have become bad addicts of the applications offered in the Google Play Store. The real life like gaming has provided an extra ordinary experience to all the users of smart phones ad tablet devices. But the only thing about an android device which holds it strengths is its small screen. How about having all the entertainment and fun on the large bigger and wider screens of laptops and personal computers? It is the basic reason of improvising the technique of android into something even more mind blowing then what it already is. Droid4x has made it possible to get all the excitement and fun on your personal computers and desktops. As it is a virtual machine it seems as if a whole android device is incorporated into the system of the personal

In this report I will include all the positive areas and Recommend for market development for the iPhone to get maximum shares in smartphone market.

Android and iOS are the two most popular Operational Systems (OS) for mobiles. Together, they dominate the Smartphone market all over the world. IOS, Apple 's operating system, is responsible for the production of the iPhone and iPad, and these companies are operating and dominating the market for a long time. However, Google’s Operation System is used by trustful and famous brands such as Samsung and Motorola, and has won smartphone users since 2008. Moreover, new users are unsure of which smartphone system is better to buy: Android or IOS? While these systems bear some evident similarities, Android and iOS have striking differences which can be crucial for new mobile users.

Smartphone market is an emerging important market and is experiencing a wave of transformation with the emergence of new players (Basole and Karla, 2011). The competition among the smartphone markets is no longer simply through physical devices but though ecosystems, or platforms. This essay is going to look at the evolution of the market so far including how it will evolve in the future, whether a few firms will eventually dominate the market as well as the core business strategy is applied to the firms.

1. The Smartphone industry is a well established market and the threats of a new entrant is low, as technology needed to rival the devices already available is quite advance if they want to differentiate from them

 Better configurations The innovations within the industries force firms to develop smartphones with better quality and more functions. From screens to cameras, from CPU to storage, everything is improving beyond users’ expectations.