Showing posts with label Androids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Androids. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

Does Android's Voice Actions Compare to Siri? (Highlights Only)

Does Android's Voice Actions Compare to Siri? (Highlights Only) Video Clips. Duration : 12.95 Mins.


This video is an attempt to debunk some of the rumors, unfair comparison's and myths about Android's voice command capabilities: I don't own the iPhone 4S, so unfortunately I can't do a side-by-side comparison. But I have read a lot about it and seen many of its features in videos as well. So I feel quite familiar with its capabilities. Overall I am impressed with Siri, so much so that I believe it is the best in the market in regards to speech to text communication. But the question is how much better is it? There have been numerous videos made comparing Siri's capabilities vs. Android's, but none of them that I have seen have been fair comparisons. Most of them seem to confuse "Voice Actions" applications with the common Voice Search built into most Android devices. The Voice Search app in Android is for just that: Voice Search and will do nothing else but search Google with your voice. To compare Siri with this would be ludicrous. Here's a very popular video that has been floating around that does just that: www.youtube.com Notice that this video not only uses the Voice Search app in Android designed only for Google voice searches, but it also focuses on a lot of the silly Easter egg nuances built into Siri, as if Android would have those same Easter eggs built into its platform. Also note that thousands of people have already seen this video as well as other similar versions making the same unfair comparisons. I am sure that many seeing these videos will accept it as ...

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Monday, April 23, 2012

As Android's Applications Base Grows So Does Ubuntu's

Android is Google's mobile and tablet operating system. Many of these are touch screen Applications. In the next year or two there is predicted to be an explosion of Android based devices on the mobile phone and tablet platforms. Without having to have approval for Applications like on the iPhone Applications but many are free. What this means for the Ubuntu user is that there will be a wide variety of new applications that could be used on the system. Some of these specifically made for the phone platform might not be too useful, but those made for tablets can be used on the desktop environment since they are made for larger screens.

Another benefit to this is that if there are great applications made on the Android platform, other developers on distributions that might not be able to run Android software might develop open source versions of the most popular software giving everyone quite a few more beneficial applications to work from whether you use Ubuntu or not.

Iphone Application

As Android's Applications Base Grows So Does Ubuntu's

Monday, March 26, 2012

Android's Attrition Process: Is Google Serious About Android Apps Development?

With the launch of hundreds of different smart phone models and the growing no. of tablets running on Android Application framework, Google continues to face the fragmentation challenge. Android's enormous and open app market allows users to download and try free apps. Android Application Development took place for various devices with different nature and sizes; it was likely that a few Android apps won't run on all the devices.

Rather than going through the whole process of loading your device with apps and returning them, Google opted for a better option. Some changes reflect on the tidy web-based Android market. The Droid market would show the app compatibility along with its features. Although, there is no formal announcement about this feature, we took it for a spin. Google will show if any or all of your Android devices will support the app.

Create An Iphone App

Android's App Attrition

We are aware of Android's huge market app; however, do you know that the huge market has actually cut down. Yes, recently received update on Android market attrition is making it difficult for masses to make decision. Roughly, 95,000 of the 300,000 mobile Applications have disappeared from the Android marketplace. In comparison, 80,000 of the 500,000 apps created for iOS have disappeared.

Why does attrition matter to smart phone users? The foremost reason is that attrition rate is the factor in calculating store sizes. Larger the size of the store, larger is the smart phone attraction. Also, the attrition rate speaks about the company's reputation for itself. As far as Droid is concerned, Droid application developers look more on the experimental side rather than in business. Why not to hire an Android application developer over an iOS or why is Droid developer casual or experimental? Read more!

Droid's open culture

It hasn't been long when Android was exposed to malicious apps. The most reputed Android application Development went through the malware test and found its software vulnerable. The word open speaks directly with the hackers. Open source software is made to share and freely distribute among users. Android mobile application Development gives liberty to developers to explore and upload their creativity at their convenience, which is the main reason why they get an opportunity to experiment and test waters.

On the other side, iOS charges $ 100 for each developer to gain a one year membership as an iPhone developer. A stringent pre-approval process consumes time but keeps iOS malware-free and iOS ecosystem, clean.

The removal of apps from Droid is sign of crumbled open system, which ballooned the Droid marketplace almost instantly in a year. While Apple has a healthy count of 400,000 apps in its store, attrition goes high in Droid store and left it with mere 200,000 apps. This counts as a major fall of Droid and the cause is Droid's friction-free app-submission process. No verification and pre-approval process brought in high no. of developers and led to high Android Apps Development; however, fell back on reliability.

With more and more issues entering Google's zone. Google's open Philosophy becomes difficult to defend. We'll keep you updated on more!

Android's Attrition Process: Is Google Serious About Android Apps Development?