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iPhone Apps Not suitable for Every Budget

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are generally content with the prices in the range of Free to $1.99. Apple’s App Store is full of useful iOS applications for your iPhone and iPads at affordable prices – or even free. However, there are “apps” that can cost up to 800 euros (aprox $982).

An analysis, prepared by the European mobile advertising network madvertise, in collaboration with the Applications Navigator AppZapp – reveals how the most expensive apps are directed to a strictly professional group of users who primarily uses their mobile device or “tablet” as a working tool instead of an entertainment companion.

Therefore, these applications are concentrated mainly in the categories of Business and Education. In an analysis by price range, madvertise shows how requiring a higher payout (i.e 799.99 euros) can be considered as personal assistants or facilitators of professional activity in sectors as diverse as legal or agriculture.

This highlights, for example, BarMax Pro, a sort of virtual teacher for aspiring lawyers of the state which provides them with knowledge to prepare for competitions, but also material from previous tests by way of practical exercises. It also highlights the “app” Agro, which is able to perform daily monitoring of the crops to optimize resources and improve production.

On the other hand, This discussion won’t be complete without the mention of the one of the most expensive yet one of the most useless apps ever: I Am Rich. The ‘app’ was just a blank screen and was priced at 799.99 euros. It was eventually withdrawn due to complaints from the users who considered it a scam.

This is the Top 10 most expensive apps in the App Store today:

  1. VueCAD Pro (Business), 799.99 euros .
  2. BarMax Pro (Education), EUR 799.99 , EUR 319.99 currently due to a temporary discount of 60%.
  3. Agro (Productivity), 799.99 euros .
  4. The Alchemist SMS (Utilities), 799.99 euros .
  5. Verituner (Music), 479.99 euros .
  6. EyeLifestyles (Medicine), 419.99 euros .
  7. 3cp / Image Control Pro (Photography), 319.99 euros .
  8. BMRControl (Health and Fitness), 239.99 euros .
  9. GIS Pro (Navigation), 239.99 euros .
  10. Themis Reader (Reference), 239.99 euros .

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US Senator Asks FTC to Probe Apple, Android Over Privacy Concerns

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US Senator Asks FTC to Probe Apple, Android Over Privacy Concerns

NEW YORK: A US senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications on the Apple Inc and Google Inc mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and post them online without consent.

Democrat Charles Schumer’s request comes after iPhone maker Apple tweaked its privacy policies last month after prodding from other lawmakers.

The distribution of third-party applications on iPhones and phones running on Google’s Android system has helped create a surge in the popularity of those devices in recent years.

However, Schumer said on Sunday that he was concerned about a New York Times report that iPhone and Android applications can access a user’s private photo collection.

He also referred to a discovery last month that applications on devices such as the iPhone and iPad were able to upload entire address books with names, telephone numbers and email addresses to their own servers.

“These uses go well beyond what a reasonable user understands himself to be consenting to when he allows an app to access data on the phone for purposes of the app’s functionality,” Schumer said in a letter to theFTC.

The lawmaker said it was his understanding that many of these uses violate the terms of service of the Apple and Android platforms. He said “it is not clear whether or how those terms of service are being enforced and monitored”.

As a result, he said, “smartphone makers should be required to put in place safety measures to ensure third party applications are not able to violate a user’s personal privacy by stealing photographs or data that the user did not consciously decide to make public”.

Schumer said phone makers have an obligation to protect the private content of their customers.

“When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private,” said Schumer.

Apple App Store Passes 25 Billion Downloads

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Apple App Store Passes 25 Billion Downloads

Apple’s App Store passes 25 billion downloads and rewards the customer who put it over the goal with a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

Apple revealed that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices around the globe.The 25 billionth app downloaded, “Where’s My Water?” (free version), was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, the company said.The App Store offers more than 550,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users in 123 countries worldwide, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from a wide range of apps in 21 categories, including Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health and fitness, and travel. The App Store has paid out more than $4 billion to developers, the company reported.“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”Al Hilwa, applications development software analyst at research firm IDC, toldThe Globe and Mail the 25 billion milestone is a symbol for the explosive growth of the app economy. “Apps bring a simplicity of interaction that eluded previous generations,” he told the paper. “Enterprise applications will eventually follow consumer ones, marking an industry transition to this style of software.”TechNet, a bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, released a study in February showing that there are now roughly 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy” in the United States, up from zero in 2007. The top metro area for App Economy jobs is New York City and its surrounding suburban counties, although San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., together substantially exceed New York.While California tops the list of App Economy states with nearly one in four jobs, states, including Georgia, Florida and Illinois get their share as well. In fact, the report found more than two-thirds of App Economy employment is outside California and New York. The results also suggest that the App Economy is growing quickly, and that the location and number of app-related jobs are likely to shift greatly in the years ahead.“America’s App Economy—which had zero jobs just five years ago before the iPhone was introduced—demonstrates that we can quickly create economic value and jobs through cutting-edge innovation,” said Rey Ramsey, president and CEO of TechNet. “The App Economy is creating jobs in every part of America, employing hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers today and even more in the years to come.”

Guide to Installing Applications on Blackberry

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Guide to Installing Applications on Blackberry

  1. You will need to navigate to the website of the place you are going to download the application from, download the files to a location where you can find it later.
  2. After the download is complete, navigate to the location where you just saved that file or files, and unzip them, you will now have multiple files, don’t worry, they really aren’t that confusing.
  3. Open your desktop manager, and depending on the version you are running, you should get have an icon that reads “Application Loader” ( I am doing this with version 4.6)
  4. Open the application loader, and then select add/remove applications and press “start”
  5. The device manager will then give up an updated list of all applications on your device; this is also a great place to remove applications from your device that you might not want anymore. From here you should see a “browse” button, simply navigate to the location where you unzipped those files, more specifically the .alx file, and hit “open”
  6. *Next you will be brought back to the application loader screen, make sure the check mark is next to the applications you wanted loaded onto your BlackBerry, and then hit “next”
  7. The applications will install, your BlackBerry will reboot, and you should be all set.

Apple Picks Up Chomp to Revamp App Store Searching

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Apple Picks Up Chomp to Revamp App Store Searching

With somewhere around half a million apps in the App Store, trying to find the one you want is becoming increasingly difficult.

To change that, Apple has purchased a San Francisco-based startup called Chomp, which makes a search engine for mobile apps, according to TechCrunch, which first reported the news. With the acquisition, Apple is reportedly planning to revamp its app store, making it more user-friendly and easier to discover hidden gems.

The Cupertino tech giant, which is not exactly hurting for cash, paid about $50 million for Crunch, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, citing a person familiar with the matter. At press time, Chomp had not confirmed the purchase either on its blog or its Twitter account.

“We buy smaller technology companies from time to time and generally don’t comment on our purposes or plans,” said Amy Bessette, a spokeswoman for Apple, told BusinessWeek.

Chomp, which bills itself as “the search engine that finds the apps you want,” makes app discovery tools for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well as Google’s Android.  The company uses a proprietary algorithm that learns apps’ functions, allowing users to search based on what an app does, rather than just what it is called. For example, users can search for terms such as “puzzle games,” “expense trackers” or “tip calculators.”

The Chomp for iPhone app, which is free to download, launched in the App Store in 2010. Chomp for Android, meanwhile, launched in the Android Market in February 2011.

The company was founded by Australian-born Ben Keighran, who serves as as its chief executive, and Cathy Edwards, who is the chief technical officer. Actor Ashton Kutcher serves as Chomp’s marketing advisor, according to the company’s Web site.

The acquisition comes as Apple closes in on its 25 billionth download from the App Store. The company last month revealed that it’s sitting on approximately $97.6 billion, following a record-breaking quarter.

Los Angeles California based mobile solutions company – VezTek USA – provides expertise to help make the right decisions about where to invest in mobile, and the ability to execute flawlessly with award-winning design, engineering, and project management resources. Please contact us today for a no obligation consultation to build a custom mobile app or game. 310-928-3514 OR info@veztekusa.com.

via Apple Picks Up Chomp to Revamp App Store Searching | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

iPhone Apps Are Cheaper than Android

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iPhone Apps Are Cheaper than Android

Android users are less inclined to download apps than iPhone users, which leads to developers having to charge higher prices for apps in the Android Market, according to Canalys.

Apple iOS users are generally paying lower prices for apps than users of Android devices, according to a Feb. 23 report from research firm Canalys. While free apps are the most downloaded apps on both platforms, prices of the top paid-for apps, says Canalys, are “dramatically higher” in the Android Market than in the Apple App Store.

The top 100 paid-for Android apps, for example, would cost $374.37 — more than 2.5 times the $147 it would cost to buy the top 100 paid iOS apps. Even narrowing the selection to the top 10 or 20 apps in each category, said Canalys, showed a “striking disparity in pricing.”

“That developers can apparently charge more for their apps on Android and make it into the top paid list is clearly a positive,” said Canalys Managing Director Rachel Lashford. “But the reality is that with fewer people willing to purchase apps on Android than on iOS today, there is more of a necessity to do so.”

While high download volumes at high prices is of course the ideal scenario for developers, courting consumers with more competitive pricing needs to come first, said Lashford.

“More aggressive price competition around Android apps would help to encourage more consumers to make their first app purchases, drive greater download volumes, and ultimately be good for the vibrancy of the app ecosystem,” Lashford explained.

The report found the App Store and Android Market to be very different environments — the former more mature and closely controlled and the latter more open but less secure and less user friendly. As such, said Canalys, publishers and developers have come to use the stores in different ways and adjust their prices accordingly — and apps that are “runaway successes” in the App Store don’t necessarily follow suit in the Android Market.

“Price competitiveness is crucial in Apple’s store, where the vast majority of top paid apps cost just $0.99, in a way that is not the case in the Android Market,” said Canalys Senior Analyst Tim Shepherd. “This leads to disparities whereby an app such as Monopoly is priced at $4.99 in the Android Market but is discounted to just $0.99 in the Apple App Store.”

Despite all that, Android devices sales now lead iOS sales, and according to analytics from app store search company Xyologic, Android downloads in the United States are set to surpass those of iOS apps by March or April. In August, this already became the case in the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal, and by January Brazil, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia had followed, Xyologic’s Matthaus wrote in a Feb. 22 blog post.

While developers are for now having success with higher-priced apps in the Android Market, Canalys believes that the iOS model — in which developers more often offer cheap or free apps with in-app purchase opportunities — is ultimately more beneficial.

That latter, added Shepherd, “also underscores the importance of app store providers innovating and being quick to implement new features, which can enable developers to build robust and credible app business models and to make real money.”

In order to make apps easier to find, Apple bought Chomp, which should help people search within the Apps Store. This can give Apple another advantage over Android.

Los Angeles California based mobile solutions company – VezTek USA – provides expertise to help make the right decisions about where to invest in mobile, and the ability to execute flawlessly with award-winning design, engineering, and project management resources. Please contact us today for a no obligation consultation to build a custom mobile app or game. 310-928-3514 OR info@veztekusa.com.

via iPhone Apps Are Cheaper than Android: Report – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews – eWeek.com.

 

 

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