Though the two companies may not be best friends, the relationship between Google and Apple is one that won’t soon be dissolved. According to a report, Apple brings in a profit of $1 billion a year due to an agreement between the two tech giants. What does Apple do on its end? It makes Google the default search engine on iOS devices. This…
“Say what?!” Was my first reaction too. Don’t worry. In a surprising turn, the 6th generation iPhone has come 5th in a wide scale mobile subscriber survey in the States between July last year and January 2013. In total almost 93,000 consumers were surveyed about their happiness with their respective smartphones. Turns out, a bunch of Android…
It’s been said over and over again – Apple users are more likely to buy software on their mobile devices. Well, Android users did a good job at out growing the App Store last year, but the Play Store didn’t claim the title of most revenue. That title, yet again, went to the App Store. This past year, Apple’s App Store brought in 3.5 times the…
Following a huge wave of innovation across its iOS apps, Google appears to have pulled another blinder with its latest update, a revamp of its Flipboard-esque app Google Currents. The news aggregation app now features the same clean, crisp user-interface that has been so popular in the recent YouTube, Google Maps and Google+ app updates. Version 2.0…
According to ComScore’s survey of most used mobile apps of 2012, Facebook edged out Google Maps as the most used app on iOS and Android. Although Facebook overtook the top spot, Google is still seen as one of the top app developers, as it had 5 apps in the top 6 most used. Along with Google Maps, Google also had Google Play, Google Search, GMail, and…
Google+, the social network that apparently has millions of active users, has finally made its iOS app available in a whole bunch of new countries. 48 of them to be exact. The list features: Albania, Anguilla, Barbados, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chad, Republic of Congo, Dominica,…
C.E.O. and co-founder of Google, Larry Page, recently sat down with Wired for an interview. Although not unexpected, one of the first topics discussed was Apple. To be more specific, Wired asked Page about his thoughts on Steve Jobs’s comments about waging “thermonuclear war” on companies who Apple believed was copying its designs and using already…
Great news! The FTC announced today that it will no longer be investigating antitrust claims against Google, as the two companies reached a settlement. Essentially, Google had been trying to license essential patents to Microsoft and Apple at unreasonable prices. One thing you need to know about the patent system is that standard-essential patents must…
Google’s latest iOS launches have shown a dramatic shift in the Google developer mindset with some of the best looking mobile apps Mountain View has ever released. It seems clear that Google recognizes they make a ton of money from iOS owners and is now promoting their dedicated iOS developer team. The release of Google Maps and Gmail 2.0 has shown a…
Today Matt shows us a tweak that allows you to swipe to delete your alarm clocks rather than having to edit and delete them. It’s a functionality that Matt believes is something that should already be a part of iOS Tweak: Clock Delete See If Your Device Can Be Jailbroken!: http://mofodox.me/jbstats Matt’s Tech…
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