What Is The Global Advantage Of The Blackberry Industry

Recently, well known giant phone producers have launched a number of smart phones which are comparable to the iPhone. These new comers include some major phone producers: Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, LG, HTC, Google, Microsoft, and Windows. Their smart phones also have a large touch screen, WiFi, 3G, fast internet browsers, constantly updated application, and modern operating systems such as Android, Linux and Windows. Although some of them such as Blackberry and Nokia differentiate their products from the iPhone by using QWERTY keypad, most of the smart phones are now having nearly the same features and give users pretty much similar experiences. The smart phone industry is now getting closer to the oligopoly structure, where several firms with similar products are competing with each other. In order to be able to compete with Apple and compete with each other, the

Since the breakthrough of the initial Apple and Samsung smartphones, both companies have garnered millions of buyers from all around the globe. According to Sam Mattera of Fool, “ Samsung’s Galaxy brand and Apple’s iPhone are ubiquitous. Combined, the firms produced more than one-third of all smartphones sold globally [in the second quarter

In early 2003, the dominant smartphone provider, Blackberry, was focused mostly on business with its convergent device that included email, web browsing and text messaging (Zeigler, C. 2009). It later gained mass market adoption but to note, there were minimal competitors in the market at that time.

The technology enterprise has always been a ‘dog eat dog world’ especially in the mobile phone sector. Apple has long been the top dog holding over 50% of the market share in America; however, overseas that has not been the case. Samsung now holds a 23.3% world market share, which dwarves Apple’s 14.7% that had dropped from 18.2% in just the last quarter according to IDC (International Data Corporation). When determining what is the right phone for you the most important factors to consider are the display, because you are constantly looking at it, the operating system, because it is what the phone operates on to give you the default graphical display, and of course the price because money trees don’t just grow in anybody’s backyard. After a thorough investigation of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Apple iPhone X, the superior display, more optimized operating system, and the significantly cheaper price tag allow the Galaxy S8 to surpass the iPhone X and become the top dog.

Every mobile app development company is currently aspiring to reach a wider audience and obtain more users due to the increasing competition among other development companies which are becoming much stiffer. Unfortunately, many are yet to decide on which marketing medium to choose.

Mobile app development doesn 't just enhance sales but also creates new frontiers for eCommerce such as monetizing faster deliveries and other special logistics services, making it easier for global customers to shop and order in their native languages and changing how people browse and shop by optimizing searches through deep links that are embedded within the apps. Even regular retailers throughout the global community are now exploring the benefits of marketing B2B products, so eCommerce companies face performance pressures from constantly evolving business threats and customer buying behaviors that are often defined by loyalties to their mobile devices and favorite mobile

In 2014, there were countless articles about mobile exceeding PC traffic for the first time in history. Google announced #mobilegeddon early this year, saying, “It’s the year of the mobile”. It’s almost laughable to think that someday this was news. Especially, as it’s estimated that by 2017, 85% of the world will have access to 3G (Ericsson, 2015). If this is a glimpse into the future, then businesses require a mobile strategy.

As stated by ONS (office for national statistics) in 2014, 38 million adults (76%) in Great Britain accessed the Internet every day, 21 million more than in 2006 as well as 22 million households (84%) having Internet access in 2014, up from 57% in 2006. The dramatic increase in internet usage and access can indicate the widespread of such a fashionable tool; however it is known that as well as being an effective

The term Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are words that not only are familiar to people all over the globe but their technology is ubiquitous. Aside from the availability of the Internet, several spin-off technologies have been possible such as mobile Internet service via the mobile telephone, PDA or even “netbooks” – those subnotebooks that are small-sized, low-cost and lightweight optimized for mobile Internet access and core computing functions. No doubt, it is difficult to do day-to-day personal chores nor business transactions without relying on the power of the Internet. Personal communications between relatives, family and friends are made possible at the touch of a button, and can be done regularly via emails, chat or even web cameras. Business and industry are not left behind considering strategic, tactical and operational processes have been automated, which helped commerce streamline operations. Indeed, a whole way of life for today’s generation has been changed because of the Internet.

In the present circumstances, the Internet is playing a big role in our daily lives. The Internet is accessed by the people mostly through desk- top PC or mobile computing devices such as laptops, tablets, or Smartphone (UAB, 2016). Among many computing devices, the Smartphone is emerging as the most preferred electronic tool to interact with the world. With the help of this electronic gadget, people are not only communicating, but also learning new

The two big players nowadays that supply smartphones are American based Apple, Inc. and South Korean established Samsung Group. Essentially their two big products nowadays are the Apple iPhone 5, and the android device from Samsung with their Galaxy S4. These two companies have been in the top for quite a while and it so it seems as if these two will shortly become a duopoly, but lets erase that ugly thought for now as there always will new competition emerging.

Telecommunications is an industry that is rapidly growing and changing. Any communication using technology can be considered telecommunications, but the phone and internet are the two most commonly thought of forms. It is becoming increasingly common for both internet and phone features to be accessed on a single device. Smartphones, mobile phones that are internet capable, have only been available for a relatively short time. Despite this, their popularity has exploded and their features are changing the world in many ways. Much like with mobile phones in general, consumers were quick to adopt smartphones. In 1984 only 92,000 Americans subscribed to mobile phone services; 16 years later almost 110 million were subscribed to these same services. As of the end of 2008, about 270 million Americans were using mobile phone services (Federal Communications Commission, 2010). Recent research indicates that smartphones now outsell mobile phones that aren’t able to access the internet and make up 53.6 percent of total mobile phone sales (Gartner, Inc., 2014).

In the context of this paper, a mobile app is defined as the application developed for the current generation of mobile devices popularly known as smart phones. These apps are often distributed through a centralized app market majorly in the forms of Apple’s app store and Google’s play store each having more than 1.5

In today’s market, there are plenty number of Mobile Apps available for socializing, fun and for the business. In terms of different purposes, we can categorize these mobile apps into two sections: Enterprise Mobile Apps and Regular Mobile Apps. Regular Apps include those apps which are mainly used by the consumers in terms of fun, social interaction, path tracker etc. Applications comes under this category includes Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Google maps and iTunes, which are used millions

The services provided by telecommunications companies and also the internet players are increasingly and quickly merging onto the mobile internet platform. In this fast moving technological world, more consumers are using their mobile phones to get connected to the internet for information, entertainment and also transactions, as smart phones and tablets become more prevalent.