Android follows dominant, but moves away from the U.S. iOS

The Android is still the most widely used mobile system in the United States, but the distance to the IOS decreased during the second quarter of 2012, according to CNET .

The Google system dominates the market and is present in 56% of U.S. smartphone, but participation has declined compared to June 2011, when 61% of the Android mobile devices used. The sale of appliances with the platform fell from 15.3 million last year to 13.4 million this year.

At the same time, demand for smartphones Apple grew in one year, as well as the participation of the IOS on the market. In the second quarter of 2011, 5.9 million iPhones were sold, up from 7.9 million in 2012. This made the Apple market share grow from 23% to 33%.

Meanwhile, the BlackBerry goes down. Smartphones RIM had 10.5% share in 2011 and now account for only 6.5% of the market - the sale of equipment fell from 2.7 million to 1.6 million. According to Strategy Analyst, the drop in sales of the devices is due to "limited portfolio of BlackBerry with a touchscreen and the frequent delays in launching the BB10 system. "

In the coming months, the trend is that the distance between iOS and Android decline even further. Apple may launch iPhone 5 this quarter, and the company believes that sales of its smartphones are lower than expected due to the expectation for the new device.

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1 billion 'things' are shared daily on Open Graph Facebook

 

Every day, more than a billion things are shared by the Open Graph of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said during an investor conference social network, according to CNET .

The social applications that add things like movies that you watched the timeline of Facebook, were announced in November last year and fell rapidly in the tastes of users. Currently, more than 5000 apps can add this information to your account.

Many of the apps recorded a large increase in usage due to sharing of information with friends. One of them, Socialcam, sold for $ 60 million, and reached because of the integration with the Open Graph.

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'Our own phone would not make sense, "said Mark Zuckerberg

 

Forget the rumors of a telephone Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg assured that the company does not intend to produce a smartphone in its own time, according to CNET.

During the announcement of the stock of the company , Zuckerberg said that the focus of Facebook is to develop a platform and not hardware. "Producing our own phone does not make sense to us," said the creator of the social network.

Zuckerberg said the successful application of Facebook for mobile phones and said the company's goal is to support a system in which other apps are created and integrated into the social network. "That's why we support Apple and work near it," he said.

Rumors of a phone's own Facebook are not new, but gained strength in recent days. Bloomberg said this week that social networking would have closed a partnership with HTC to create the smartphone, which was launched in 2013.

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