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02 Introduction to Mobile App Platforms.Pdf Introduction to Mobile App Platforms Mobile vs Desktop Lightweight Many features Targets ARM Targets x85 Less powerful More powerful More concerned with More concerned with battery life power Let's look at some mobile OS's Symbian Developed by the Symbian Foundation Used to be the largest market share Nokia is abandoning Symbian for smartphones and only using it for feature phones Phased out by 2016 Nokia N8 Bada Developed by Samsung Samsung plans to convert their feature phones to Bada making them smart phones Samsung still ships many Android smartphones webOS Launched by Palm, in 2009 Bought by HP in 2010 webOS hardware was discontinued in August 2011 Possibly will make its way into printers and HP PCs HP announced that it will open source webOS Palm Pre running webOS Blackberry Developed by Research In Motion (RIM) Originally designed for business use Highly Secure Integration with corporate network Email, contacts, network, etc. Switching to using QNX OS instead of the longstanding Blackberry OS Blackberry Playbook running QNX Windows Phone Developed by Microsoft Replaced Windows Mobile in 2010 New UI (Metro) Integration with Microsoft services Zune, Bing, SkyDrive, etc. Windows Mobile Windows Phone Android Developed by a small startup, Android Inc. Purchased by Google in 2005 Linux derived Open source and part of the Open Handset Alliance Developers have almost complete control Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.1 iOS Developed by Apple Inc. Runs iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and AppleTV Based on the OSX Kernel iOS 5 Mobile OS Shipments 2.7% 1.9%0.9% 6.9% Android 8.6% iOS Symbian RIM Bada Windows Phone Other 56.1% 22.9% Top Purchased Mobile Apps of 2011 Ranking Mobile App 1 Angry Birds 2 Facebook 3 Skype 4 Angry Birds Rio 5 Google Maps 6 iBooks 7 Angry Birds Seasons 8 Fruit Ninja 9 Talking Tom 10 Twitter.
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