Google’s Android 5 Lollipop was a radical change to how Android looked and felt, and, with Android M, it looks like Google is building upon its fresh new interface with some intelligent new features. In essence, Google is the backend enabler to all of Apple’s hardware competition. Apple wants to take this number up to 40 by the mid of next year.
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Google has seen fit to revamp its App tray for Android M, doing away with the four-columned horizontally-scrolling pages of apps.
What we do know is that Apple Music will be arriving on Android devices sometime this fall.
Apple’s shares are down hard since the tech giant reported earnings in late July, and one big reason is concern that its growth in China could slow.
Now, investors seemingly have an answer to that. It is actually posted on the * a href=”https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=android&t=0&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0&openJobId=41632321″ target=”_blank” *Apple website, enticing software engineers to help them “bring exciting new mobile products to the Android platform”.
In the Google app you navigate just as you would in Android, with a home button, back button, and multitasking icon. The apps themselves offer a range of content, from YouTube-like user submissions to movies and popular TV shows, including those from overseas, as well as original programming.
An anti-virus app, somehow makes it to the highly-prized position of #1 new paid app in the Google Play store, despite being utterly fake.
More recently, it’s been those in the video streaming space, App Annie said in its Q2 report. As a comparison, Microsoft’s Windows 8 is only installed on 16% of all Windows devices with Windows 7 still the preferred OS for 57% of all active Windows users.
The job ad isn’t some internal document leaked. While it removed the Mac requirement of buying an iPod, theoretically weakening Apple’s product “halo”, it opened up a whole new world of sales. “We’re also looking forward to completing our acquisition of EE, which will allow us to create a true UK digital champion, providing customers with greater choice and value and helping to deliver the UK’s connected future”. The documents also reveal the growth of Apple in China.
Let’s hope things are going to get better from now on – both in terms of keeping the Google Play app store free of malicious apps, and also ensuring that hundreds of millions of users get the security patches they deserve.
The possible end gameThe Windows example is different in a lot of ways.
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Since so many of you write us asking for the best Android apps for kids, we are so honored that Google Play reached out too, asking us to be this month’s expert kids’ app curator in their family category! Smartphone upgrade cycles are shorter than PC upgrade cycles, and getting shorter with all of the fast-upgrade programs that carriers are introducing, so Apple might not have to wait long.
