Why iPhone Over Other Smartphone Devices
The launch of Apple App Store created hype amongst the App Developer and with its success the requests of development and business RFPs have sky rocketed.
How is iPhone More Convenient than Other Smartphone Devices
The iPhone has a large market and a huge fan following, it has one store – Apple app Store which stores all the apps made for Apple products, making it beneficial for developers as their products have a better chance of being sifted through easily by the consumers. Apps in the App Store are well categorized and maintained making it convenient and uncomplicated to use from a user’s perspective.
From developing point of view; the development platform that Apple has in its devices and the uniformity of the Operating System is more conventional for the developers to work on as compared to BlackBerry and Android. Once the product is successful in the Apple App Store, it can be expected to be transferred to other prominent platforms as well. The development cost for Apple platform is not steep, iPhone, iPad and iPod operating systems are the same and users can easily upgrade themselves to latest versions using iTunes. Whereas Black berry development price is higher due to the conflicting versions of the operating systems on the phone set. Similarly, Android devices have different OS in the same model and have no limitations of devices, making it difficult for developers.
The iPhone Popularity increased with its VoIP Services
Another factor that makes iPhone Developers and consumers choice is their VoIP services which allows them to make cost effective phone calls to family, friends, business all over the world. The new VoIP being the latest technology gives them the feel of staying connected to their social life.
Apple App Store Statistics
- According to App of the Day, there are more than 300,000 apps in the Apple App Store and there number is increasing day by day.
- Free apps make up one-third of the App Store, 50 % of it is between $0.99 and $ 2.99 and only 1 % is $ 24.99 or more.
- Another research that we came across by App of the Day shows that most of the apps are still made for iPhone platform and that is about 85 %.
- If we look into the category distribution we observe that there are about 50,000 apps in the books category alone, almost 7000 of which came from just one developer.
- The highest number of apps made goes in the category of books and games. The average prices of different apps vary from category to category. Only 11 % of books are free compared to 65% of News apps.
- There are about 62,126 numbers of unique developers that contribute to the Apple App Store and the total number of contributors is far greater. Facebook is the only app that has over 1,000,000 ratings
Compatible and User Friendly
All the above mentioned benefits shows that iPhone is the most compatible, convenient and popular device from both developers and users perspective.
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