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Hard beginning: The way of Apple iPhone in China

Just as the sudden cold wave in Beijing China, the way of Apple iPhone in China is covered by the thick snow. Although Apple chooses to cooperate with the No.2 mobile carrier of China, China Unicom, it has to face the fact that iPhone hurdles in China.
             
A lot of stores still had iPhones in stock until now, and this pretty mobile phone has only been sold in several provincial capital cities. I believe that at least half of the Chinese mobile phone users have not heard of the coming of iPhone. Maybe they will not purchase it at all.
Just as the sudden cold wave in Beijing China, the way of Apple iPhone in China is covered by the thick snow. Although Apple chooses to cooperate with the No.2 mobile carrier of China, China Unicom, it has to face the fact that iPhone hurdles in China. 
Why?
 
Although China Unicom is the No.2 mobile carrier of China, the number of its customers is only one-sixth of the number of the customers of China Mobile. Using the China Mobile SIM card has become a habit but not just a choice in the Chinese life environment. You can save much money if you and your contact persons all choose to use service of China Mobile, because you can send hundreds of free short massages to your girlfriend, make a cheap telephone call to your mother, enjoy the free call time in a virtual net or school net, only if you all own a China Mobile SIM card in your mobile phone.
 
So China Unicom wanted to capture users from the China Mobile by Apple iPhone, however, it is too late! More and more unauthorized iPhone from grey-market had been accepted by users because of the cheap price, even if the target customers whom can accept the price or like the iPhone very much want to buy it, they have purchased from all kinds of channels instead of this cooperation of Apple and China Unicom. Besides, many kinds of competitors of iPhone have been sold, such as Droid, Nokia 5800 and so on. They are much cheaper.
 
We still have hundreds of reasons to choose to use iPhone, such as the rapid CPU, the gravity induction system, the wonderful App Store, the cut Wi-Fi and so on, but iPhone has still a long and dark way to stagger in China.
 
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Smartphone faceoff: Droid VS iPhone

Keywords: Smartphone Droid iPhone Android Mac
 
If there is an application or software in the smart phone announcing that It can do everything, a smart phone will say that it can do anything which is impossible to phone. Now the faceoff of the smart phones is becoming hotter and hotter, what is your final choice?
 
It is seemed that the iPhone is an artwork only to be collected, but the camera which is only with 2MP is a little useless. Android platform is supported by the strong Google, but it does not have the App Store and thousands of absorbing applications. The RIM BlackBerry is always hot, however, it looks a little ugly. Do you like to use the Windows Mobile Phone when you have seen the Microsoft windows mark for many years?
 
So the first problem is not without smart phone, but you don’t know which one should be purchased.
 
Droid vs iPhone suzvenus The battle between Droid and iPhone is very interesting. Based on the Android platform, Droid is very strong. But it will never defeat iPhone in a short time because the latter has become the super star in the area of smart phone. If the Droid wants to defeat the iPhone, it has to take a long-term strategy, but not a fancy commercial. The market share of electronic products is decided by the use habit of users. For example, the Mac is so beautiful that it is seemed as the Venus goddess, and the spending on ads is about ten times than Microsoft Windows. But it is known that there is never a flood of people rushing towards Mac.
 
Now is about one week away from the release of the Verizon Droid, we do know that the commercials promise a real keyboard, night shots, open development platform, widgets(I don’t think that it’s better than App Store),customization and interchangeable batteries. Here are some specs from other IT websites:
 
l The slideout QWERTY keyboard doesn’t mean a big phone, the Droid is only slightly thicker than the iPhone 3Gs.
l A very big display, though no dimensions were given.
l Runs Android 2.0 and will probably be the fastest Android smart phone yet.
l Comes with a desktop charger.
 
It is said that the Droid will have a pretty 5MP camera.
 
Besides, Droid will have the better Internet experience. In order to catch up to the advance of its competitors, iPhone will plan to add the AJAX and Flash technology into it.
 
Droid vs iPhone: without App!
 
Droid can’t provide so much applications and a huge App Store just like Apple. But now more and more new applications and games based on the Android platform have become popular.
 
Droid vs iPhone: choose your favorite!
 
Choose your favorite smart phone, although Droid has the better performance, it will still need more software and application to support it. iPhone is so strong, but maybe you will need an additional Mac.
Droid vs iPhone: users have the option!
 
No doubt, the iPhone is pushing the market towards more high-featured devices like the Verizon Droid. The originality and strength make the iPhone become the absolutely winner of this battle. If others want to defeat it, they have to have the better software and hardware than iPhone.
 
 
 
 
 

The 3rd Quarter, What does iPhone bring for AT&T?

Keywords: Apple Inc. AT&T  iPhone  S&P  Mobile phone
 

 

L
ast Thursday, October 15th, AT&T which is the biggest telecommunication company of U.S. reported its results of the 3rd-quarter. AT&T’s sales profit has never been increased because of the popular of iPhone, after the cooperation of AT&T and Apple. Especially, AT&T is the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone.
 
Analysts all believe that the sales profit of AT&T must be increased because of the hot sale of iPhone and the popular of all kinds of service such as App Store. Especially in the beginning of the 3rd quarter, Apple Inc. put on sale the new version of iPhone( iPhone 3Gs ), and it is very popular now. Several days ago, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs showed first in the public after a dangerous liver operation. He announced that the App Store had more than 85,000 Apps and the total downloads had broken through 2 billion times! But AT&T is not the lucky dog.
 
The stock of AT&T has failed to keep pace with the recovery of the broader market since March 2009. During those days, the S&P 500 has risen 39 percents, however, AT&T is up only 3 percent. Although is the external market reason, AT&T also has to face long-term adverse factors. The users of landlines decreased quickly, more and more old landlines users choose to use the mobile phone, so wireless carriers are forced to compete on price.
 what does iphone bring for AT&T in the 3rd quarter
At the very beginning of the cooperation with Apple, AT&T wanted to get much profit by the brand of Apple and the popular of iPhone. As the exclusive U.S. carrier of iPhone, AT&T provides the high subsidy to iPhone users and gets the bonus from the income of the download profit which is brought by the apps in the App Store. However, heavy data traffic generated by the 3G service is clogging AT&T’s wireless network, and forced it to update its infrastructure. Apple Inc. has never paid attention to the bad time of its cooperator. The iPhone has been sold to more and more countries and areas, many wireless carriers begin to negotiate with Apple, so Apple has never paid attention to the cooperation with AT&T.
 
At the same time, AT&T announces that it will purchase a famous telecommunication company in the fourth quarter. And this deal will expand AT&T‘s coverage, particularly in the western Europe. This news makes its stock rise 14 percents.
 
Next weekend China Unicom will sell the iPhone in China as the exclusive carriers. With the similar high subsidy and bonus mode, unlike AT&T, China Unicom has a strong opponent and many competitors. China Unicom should study the way of AT&T before the cooperation with Apple.
 
Many news analysts said that the Apple brought a big crab apple to AT&T. And what kinds of apple does Apple bring to China Unicom.
 
Edited by Venus http://www.suzvenus.com
 
  

TIOBE Programming Community Index for October 2009

TIOBE Programming Community Index for October 2009

October Headline: Objective-C is on its way to the top 10!

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

This chart shows the position of the top 20 language

the TIOBE Programming Community index of top 20

 

As the iPhone programming language, Objective-C is on its way to the top 10! This language which is similar with C/C++ was on the end of the top 50 list in the October 2008, but now it will run into the top 10 group because of the popular of iPhone application.

 

This chart shows the positions of the top 10 programming languages from 4, 10 and 25 years ago

the positions of the top 10 programming languages from 4,10 and 25 years age

 Via TIOBE Software

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Apple Application Store, Blue Ocean or Red Ocean?

October 12 morning news, Apple’s App Store and iPhone almost became the keywords of Game Developers Conference of China (GDC China), however, a kind of complicated emotion has hidden behind the strong concern. With this low threshold of the blue ocean platform, game developers began to dream of becoming the billionaires, but the reality is that, too much developers has crowded into this area, it is seemed that the chance and opportunity is becoming less and less.
 
Apple’s App Store was online in July 2008, Apple Inc. also provided the software development kit (SDK) of iPhone about 4 months ago. Developers are allowed to develop the iPhone applications by the SDK and then upload them to the App Store. So users can download these applications to their iPhone. As of now, the number of applications in App Store is more than 85,000, and this figure is increasing in the rate of 300 per day.
 
More and more legends, which several poor guys finally become millionaires by a smart iPhone application, become the truth now. So many people seemed this area as the Blue Ocean, which means a new domain with endless chance and opportunity. But when Steve Jobs announced that the total downloads of applications in App Store has broken through 2 billion download times, developers found that the huger competition was hidden behind the huge market. In other words, this area is becoming the red ocean.

 the downloads of Apple App Store has broken through 2 billion times

At the beginning, you can develop your own iPhone application if you have an apple ID, MAC and iPhone, you even not need to have professional computer or software engineering background, the iPhone development language is objective-c which is similar with C/C++, so you can develop iPhone application if you have simple C programming fundamental. The low threshold makes the dreams of poor guys come true, however, it also makes a lot of low quality products full of the App Store.
 
Users do not know the real quality of the application before they download and use it, so they would like to believe the evaluate score and download times. Therefore, it is becoming the biggest problem to make others know your application and like to download it. At the same time, you had better to get ready for the failure that your application may be in the last page of application list and users may never find out it forever. Your fruit of labor may sink to the bottom of the red ocean.
 
However, you should not be too pessimistic, during the selling of iPhone 3Gs in China and Korea, many new application with Chinese or Korean UI will bring the new blue ocean.

Edited by venus  http://www.suzvenus.com

App Store downloads has broken through more than 2 billion times!

October 1st 2009, Apple Inc. announced that the download number of iPhone applications from the App Store has broken through the 2 billion times. This surprised figure is far more than the number which is shown on the AT&T website.

 Appstore downloads breaking through 20 billion times!

Apple Inc. claims that there are more than 85,000 available applications which are downloaded and used by users of iPhone and iPod Touch. The number of these users may be about 5 million. Meanwhile, more and more new function is achieved on the iPhone, for example, Adobe has launched the Photoshop software based on the iPhone platform several days ago.

App store downloads breaking through 20 billion times 
 
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said that the App Store downloads had kept growing continuously in the last year, and the total downloads had reached 2 billion, the figure of downloads had broken through 500 million times only in the second quarter of this year.

App store downloads breaking through 20 billion times 

The success of App Store has prompted its competitors to develop and operate their own mobile market. Most of all, as Apple’s longtime rival, Microsoft Inc. launch its Windows phone and Windows mobile market. The new battle among these corporations will begin!

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IPhone and AT&T, the cooperation without profit!

October 10 2009, there is an explosive news media exposure, that is, according to the research report which was from the famous research firm Yankee Group, AT&T have cooperated with Apple and provided services based on iPhone for a long time, however, it is not yet profitable now!

 

It is known that, AT&T has signed a contact with Apple’s iPhone, and this two-year exclusive agreement will expire in mid-2010, but now according to Yankee Group’s report, AT&T is still not profitable because of the high subsidies for iPhone.

 

The 3G version of iPhone which is launched by Apple in the last summer was sold in a low price which was only 199 U.S. dollars. So many analysts believed that AT&T had to pay for a signal iPhone at least 300 U.S. dollars.

 

Now the 3Gs version of iPhne will be sold in China and operated by China Unicom exclusively. The presold price is about 3100 Chinese Yuan (CNY) which is the same as 454 U.S. dollars (USD). Besides, you have to pay for at least 126 Chinese Yuan (CNY) each month as the necessary additive condition. So iPhone will be seemed as the luxury goods in China.

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Mobile War,the next battle for Google and Baidu

As China ushers in a new generation of snazzy smartphones and 3G networks, Google and Baidu are shifting their battle from the Internet to China's mobile search market, likely to become the world's largest, with the promise of billions of dollars in revenue.
 
According to government data, at the end of June this year China had 155 million mobile Internet users, and more than 40 million of them used mobile search.

"For the mobile search market, the number is still small but the growth potential is extremely high,"Badidu Chief Technology Officer Li Yinan told us in a recent interview."It is an important area." 

China's mobile advertising industry was worth 754 million yuan(about $111 million) last year and is set to nearly double by 2010. Mobile search volume rose 120 percent in the second quarter alone to 272 million clicks, according to Analysys International.

China's mobile advertising industry just like this graphic:



So both Google and Baidu have been aggressively courting mobile users this year.Google, which pushed out new mobile services in China recently, launched an advertising campaign in Shanghai,Beijing and Guangzhou marketing its mobile services.

At the same time, Baidu, which holds 61 percent of the desktop search market, said in early September it planned to hire two software engineers to focus specifically on the mobile platform.

Both Baidu and Google already have mobile products and provide free services such as maps, games and news over cellphones. Analysts say Baidu still has the edge in China's mobile market given its brand, depth of local information and its dominant position in the desktop search market.

The rollout of 3G will lead to faster downloads and offer users more sophisticated functions such as global positioning search, mobile reading and music search.

"The market is still young, so it is hard to say, but with 3G a lot more people will use mobile search because the data speed allows them to get on the Internet," said Dick Wei, an analyst with JPMorgan.

If the market really takes off, Baidu and Google could also face the potential for competition from other companies such as Tencent Holdings, operator of China's largest instant messaging platform, which has been experimenting with its own search algorithms, said industry sources.

Tencent has a large "sticky" base of mobile messaging users that the firm could tap when mobile carriers roll out their application stores.

Mobile search providers could also find themselves facing competition from suppliers of other paidfor mobile services.

"It's going to take some time for them to figure out what is the right business model to generate revenue on the mobile platform. The easiest one though is instant messaging," said Elinor Leung, a CLSA analyst.

Via Reuters
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