Android Market Predicted to overthrow the "App Store"

As the growing popularity of Android, the number of applications developed for this operating system more and more. Even predicted soon, applications on the Android Market will be higher in number than the Apple App Store.

Research from Research2guidance company in Germany said that though initially slow, the growth of Android Market began to exceed the Apple Store. In April 2011, as many as 28 thousand new application added to Android Market, compared to 11 thousand in the App Store.

Until May 2011, the Android Market had 294,738 applications. This amount is approaching the App Store that had 381,062 applications at the same time.

By analyzing several factors such as higher growth than the App Store, Android applications, Research2guidance predict the number of applications will exceed the Android Market App Store around August 2011.

Research2guidance also revealed several other points. For example only 36% paid Android applications, compared with 60% application in the App Store. Apple's revenue edges will still be higher than Google.

Quoted from PCWorld, Saturday (05/07/2011), although the growth of Android Market so soon, but the number of fixed income more dredged App Store. Projected, Apple will reach about three-quarters of total revenue of all stores and existing applications in 2011.

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Iconia A500, Tablet Android 'Nests Honey' from Acer

Jakarta - Acer tablet computers Android Honeycomb landed his first in Indonesia. Tablet-based dual-core processor 2250 Nvidia Tegra is ready to enliven the touch-screen computer market country.

"We are launching something very exciting today, Honeycomb first tablet in Indonesia," said Jason Lim, President Director of Acer Indonesia, in a press conference here on Tuesday (05/03/2011).

Acer Iconia A500 - the device name - claimed to have been equipped with technology to address the needs of users will be high definition devices, gaming, and movies.

Therefore, tablets with the Android operating system 3.0, aka the 'honeycomb' is marketed with three games have been embedded HD quality. Namely NFS: Shift, Let's Golf, and Hero of Sparta.

With GeForce-based technology in it, Iconia A500 is also capable of playing quality graphics with the preformance. Users can plug the HDMI output Iconia A500 to display devices such as TV to further enrich the experience of enjoying content.

Other features include a 5 megapixel camera fitted to the rear and 2 megapixels for the future. The camera is also capable of recording HD resolution and a choice of 16GB and 32GB of internal storage.

When tested detikINET, tablets with 10.1-inch wide screen and priced in the range of Rp 4 million of these also has a multitouch touchscreen to 10 touch points.

"We use the Nvidia processor 1 GHz, and the device also can run flash 10.2. So the user can already feel the same feel like browsing on a PC," said Husen Halim, Prooduct Manager Smart Handheld Acer Indonesia.

He pointed out, Iconia A500 also features dual display feature. "So you can run two displays simultaneously, it is supported by the ability of dual core processors," he concluded.

Source : detikinet.com

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