Mobile UI

Blog Post. Android Market and Apple’s App Store

Android Market and Apple’s App Store

December 17, 2009

As Android Market has grown to about the 20,000 apps mark, it is interesting to compare two different approaches to user experience. While Apple sets up very strict approval rules in an effort to assure only well-done and polished apps get through to an end-user, Google doesn’t set any approval process at all. Aesthetics have…

Blog Post. Smartphone sales per OS vendor

Smartphone sales per OS vendor

November 11, 2009

Stats from June 09 shows Symbian being the clear leader in the Mobile OS market, thanks to Nokia and a few Sony Ericsson and Samsung devices. (data does not include Palm WebOS, which was introduced in June, 2009) Market share of Smartphone operating systems as of Q2/2009 by Canalys. It will be interesting to see…