What exactly has led to the plethora of 7 inch tablets now flooding the market?
First it was just the Nexus 7, but we’re now seeing a strong lean towards these smaller tablets as a target for clients. Is it the price? Is it the spec? What, in short, do they have over their larger brothers?
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PayPal have updated their developer options and introduced an SDK that will allow developers to integrate PayPal checkout and mobile credit card payment mechanisms directly into their apps.
At the moment, the current PayPal SDK allows users to make purchases within the app but only with an existing PayPal account. With the new SDK, there is support for credit card payments without the need for a PayPal account. Essentially, PayPal will act as a gateway service for the banks in the same way that similar services do on the web.
Yesterday was the launch event for The Big Deal 2012, and we are pleased to announce that (I) Anthony Main, our Mobile Director will be one of the student mentors.
The event encourages enterprise in students that have been identified as being high achieving by their school/college and is being run by The University of York in association with Brightside.
Its been no big suprise that Apple’s event was a biggy….in short the 3 top stories were:
Last week Google announced that their platforms app store – Android Market has reached over 10 billion app downloads. An increase in 1 billion in only a month, whereas it took it 22 months to reach the first 1 billion downloads. To celebrate Google are severely discounting a large number of its apps each day down to 10p to celebrate.
This does not suprise me as during our recent App Challenge event, when posed the question, over 70% of the students stated they owned Android devices and planned to target this platform over iOS despite the potential revenue they may be able to achieve. Apple recently stated that they have given over $1 billion dollars back to developers on their platform.
Despite what seems huge growth in Android sales, hitting 46% market penetration, HTC – one of the world’s largest Android device manufacturers announced a 20% drop in sales figures during the last quarter.
Is the demand finally dropping or is the smart phone market simply saturated now and users are getting more app savvy?
To find out how our dedicated team of Android developers can fulfill your app development requirements get in touch.
Anthony Main