by Kenny Hemphill
on 8 April 2011
in News
Google’s Android operating system will account for half of all smartphones by 2012, according to research firm, Gartner.
In a forecast issued yesterday, the company predicted that Android would take a significant lead over Apple’s iOS and that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 would take second place by 2015, with 19.5%.
Gartner’s prediction sees both Apple and RIM losing out to Google and Microsoft in terms of market share over the next four years, with HP’s WebOS a long way behind. That market, according to Gartner, will see sales of 468m units in 2011, nearly 60% more than in 2010, rising to 1.1bn units in 2015.
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by Kenny Hemphill
on 28 March 2011
in News
This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 6-10, Apple has announced.
The company said it would ‘unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS’ at the event.
“At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss.”
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