Apple's $20M purchase of WiFiSLAM snubs Google's Android for indoor map tech
Apple's latest acquisition, WiFiSLAM, was an Android-centric indoor location positioning tool for developers that has now been taken off the market.
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Android
Neil Hughes
Editorial: Google’s Android powered by remarkable new 'Flawgic'
Google’s Android platform is powered by a novel technology that transcends conventional hardware and software. And just as Android hardware and software has looked to Apple for inspiration, this compelling new “flexibly adaptive logic” is also related to something that first originated within Apple.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
BlackBerry 10 predicted to hold less than 5% market share through 2016
While BlackBerry's CEO this week called Apple's iOS platform outdated, it's the BlackBerry 10 operating system that's expected to have very little effect on the smartphone industry for the coming years.
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Apple predicted to gain additional U.S. smartphone share over Samsung in 2013
Reiterating the lack of excitement surrounding Samsung's "Broadway-style" launch of the Galaxy S 4, Yankee Group research has stated Apple is likely to gain ownership share in U.S. smartphones this year, "rather than the other way around."
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Developers prefer Apple's iOS Maps SDK over Google Maps
An in depth comparison of the development frameworks behind Apple's Maps and Google's finds pros and cons in both, but highlights Apple's as more mature, less limited and recommended for most third party app developers.
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Market shares collapse with 'brutal speed' in cyclical smartphone industry
A closer look at market shares in the highly competitive smartphone industry shows sales trends can be reversed in an instant, and companies that once dominated could quickly find themselves on the verge of collapse.
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New 'Why iPhone' section of Apple's web site touts smartphone superiority
After years of all but avoiding any mention of its mobile competitors, Apple has launched a new site that highlights iPhone's advantages as a smartphone, similar to its "Get a Mac" campaign that took on Windows PCs.
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Samsung's Galaxy S4 distracts attention away from Android
Samsung's Galaxy S 4 launch appeared poised to leverage Android to further distract the public's attention from Apple's iPhone. Instead, the company appears to have created its own apps and services to distract away from Android.
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BlackBerry to launch new enterprise security solution for iOS & Android
BlackBerry announced on Thursday it plans to offer a solution that will separate and secure both work and personal data on the most dominant mobile platforms: Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
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AppleInsider Staff
Kevin Bostic
Mikey Campbell
