Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts

Apple Music finally comes to Android

Apple Music now available on Android
Apple Music now available on Android (Img: Google Images)
Today, Apple released an Android version of its Apple Music streaming service on Play Store. Now by using the app Android users will be able to stream thousands of tracks of different artists, listen to Beats 1 radio, and subscribe to Apple Music service.

 The app is available in the Google Play Store to download for Android-based smartphones and tablets. The Apple Music app requires Android 4.3 or later for getting access to the music streaming service. The Apple Music app is available everywhere on the planet except China. The first three-month free trial also comes with the app and it is priced as $9.99/$14.99 per month.

 While, the User interface and design of the app are pretty similar to the iOS Apple Music App. But the Android app is still in beta, it doesn't contain Music Videos or the facility to sign up for  the family plan. Meanwhile, those of you who want to sign up for the Family plan, you will need to use an iOS device to do so.

 While, talking about the Android app of Apple Music, Apple executive Eddy Cue said:

"We wanted customers on Android to naturally be able to use it -- what they've learned and how they interact is common. Things as simple as [that] the share icon looks like an Android share icon; the menu structure being where it is; these are things that most Android customers are familiar with. We wanted to make sure that they felt very familiar with Apple Music when they sat down to use it."
Have checked out the Android app of Apple Music? How is it? Let us know in the comments.
Read More

Tim Cook: 30 percent of iPhone Buyers in Q4 2015 were Android Smartphone users

Image Credits: Apple
During Apple's fourth quarter conference call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple has measured the highest ratio of Android users switching to iPhones in Fourth Quarter of 2015.
"It's a huge number and we're very proud of it," Tim Cook said. 

Though, Reasons for such large number of Android users switching to iPhones have yet to be discovered. Meanwhile, Apple has been vigorously seeking to get the attention of Android users. For example, Apple back in June announced an app named "Move to iOS" for transferring data from an Android device to an iOS device. The app was published in the Android Play Store about a month. Apple has been trying to grab those Android users with phablets by introducing a larger iPhone 6s and unique features like Force Touch and enhanced camera hardware and software. 
“What this means is that for customers who purchased an iPhone last quarter and replaced a smartphone, 30 percent of those switched from an Android device,” said Tim Cook. 
He also said, “There would’ve been some switchers from other operating systems, but Android is the largest one by far. That number is the largest we’ve ever recorded since we began measuring it three years ago. We’re very proud of that number.”

 Due to the increasing number of Android switchers the company is very happy and is expecting to have strong sales in the first quarter of 2016.

"We have a very open field in front of us," Tim Cook said.
Allegedly, Apple quarterly earnings were of $51.5 billion and a net profit of $11.1 billion. The fruit company roughly sold a total of 48.04 million iPhones, 9.88 million iPads, and 5.71 million Macs.
Read More

ComScore Report: Apple increased in every sector but no one other




The new information has been received today which is related to the smart phone market share. The statistical analysis confirms that in a period of three months that ends in April, almost 188.6 million people have owned a smartphone. This has allowed Apple to become equal to 76.9 percent of the mobile market that are of smartphones at this stage, in accordance with information of ComScore, Apple has further empowered its existence and lead to a great extent. The present state of percentage has been observed by ComScore which has found it to be 1.8 percent increase in market share in the current period, it has increased from 41.3 in January and reached to 43.1 in April.

 From all other devices which lie in the top 5 other than Apple include LG, which is the only manufacturer found other than Apple that has shown an increase in the percentage, it has rise from 8 to 8.4 percent. Samsung, Motorola and HTC have shown a decrease in their percentage. Samsung is still placed at no.2 on the list its observed decline ranges from 29.3 to 28.6 percent. The percentage of Motorola has reduced from 5.2 percent to 4.9, and HTC keep struggling hard but still its percentage has lessened from 3.8 to 3.7.

 In the platform of market share, although there has been a reduction in the lead of Android but it still remains on the top. The observed decline in the percentage of Android is a lowering from 53.2 to 55.2, while the increase in iOS market share is an elevation from 41.3 to 43.1 percent. Microsoft’s Window Phone bears a loss from 3.6 percent to 3.0 percent, where as BlackBerry has a share fall reduced from 1.8 to 1.5 percent.


And eventually, as the most famous and popular smartphone apps, Facebook was placed highest in rank with a percentage of 71.1, where as Youtube and Google remained at 57 percent and 51.8 percent, correspondingly.  

source : 9to5mac
Read More

iPhone is gripping hard on Europe, People are switching from Android


China pass Europe as Second most important market for Apple in last quarter, new report from Kantar, The iPhone market is growing all because of Android users are switching to iOS.

 Last year more than 30% of Android users switched to iPhone. All the folks who converted  from Android to iPhone have pushed iOS’ marketshare in Europe's five largest countries to 20.3%, marking a 1.8% increase from 2014.

 Have a look on the Graph below:
Android’s marketshare across Europe has decresed 3.1% over the last year, but it still holds a large majority of the market with 68.4%.


 But the Apple is going very well in China, where has grown its share 26.1% which was 17.9% last year, and now the company have much bigger market in China then United States. Where Android holds 58.1% marketshare.

 Having already strong sales of iPhone the Chief of Kantar Carolina Milanesi says Apple Watch also gonna give a boost to iPhone Sales.

 Apple's iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 already own by 18% of United States iPhone users and 64% uses iPhone 5 and newer and the Plus point is that the Apple Watch.

 Thoughts?

 Source: CultofMac
Read More

Image found on Google Maps: Android logo pissing on Apple logo



The most hot competition! Yes I am talking about Android and iOS ( Google and Apple ) these two tech giants are serving the world with latest technologies and there is always been a quarrel between the users/fans of these two companies and some days ago we heard that some people actually started fighting after the quarrel for Android and iOS. Usually these two companies do not fight but some times they taunt like once Tim cook talked about so many vulnerabilities of Android. And Google also takes upon Apple.

But the battle takes an upper level while some peoples on google side showed an immaturity by making an a Android logo pissing on Apple logo on google maps which seems to be done by any simple person using Google map maker tool, if you navigate to the outer region of city Rawalpindi,Pakistan you can see it. Its exact coordinates are N 33°30'52.5", E 73°03'33.2.

If we look this place in a satellite view we can see that there is nothing there like that "if they said we are mistaken". And the people like that should spend there time for improving there device instead of being jealous and do childish things like this!

Source: Phonearena 
Read More
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)