Windows 8 – “The riskiest product ever”
Posted: December 21, 2011 Filed under: News, Software | Tags: Android, app, app market, apps, beta, ComAround, developer, download, graphical interface OS, HTML5, interface, iOS, Javascript, Microsoft, Windows, windows 8, Windows store Leave a comment »The above statement is quoted from Steve Ballmer himself and this could of course be true, Windows 8 is a pretty risky product. Windows 8 is the biggest step that Microsoft has taken in more than 20 years. What I am referring to is of course the step that they did in early 90s by pushing out DOS in favor for the more graphical interface OS, Windows.
The Windows Store
Microsoft has finally learned its lesson in how to make their product more appealing. In the Upcoming Windows 8, the key component will be the Windows store. The windows store will launch in late February together with the first beta release of Windows 8. Price range for Windows store apps will range from $1.49 to $999.99.
How will Microsoft get into the app market?
The Android platform has around 247 million users while iOS has around 152 million users. Even if we sum up all these users together they will not reach Microsoft’s whopping 500 million user base.
This is good news for us developers since Microsoft has really simplified the way apps will work in Windows 8. We will be able to build apps in HTML5 and Javascript, or if you’re not into that fancy web typish development, you can go hardcore C++ or choose between the Microsoft languages C# or Visual Basic.
Microsoft is also establishing a very attractive business model to lure in would-be developers by offering them a 70-30 split. Once an app has reached $25,000 in revenue, the split shifts up to a 80-20 split which is really nice.
Another difference with apps downloaded from Windows store compared to Android and iOS is that as a developer, instead of building a lite version you can release a time limited demo version of your app that is a full version app with all the features but for a limited amount of days.
I am really excited to see how Windows 8 and Windows store will evolve the upcoming months and I will continue to cover windows 8 and Windows store related topics, so subscribe to our feed.
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Why is iTunes still around?
Posted: December 21, 2011 Filed under: Smartphone, Software | Tags: 2011, Apple, apps, ComAround, ComAround Free, download, iCloud, iPads, iPhones, iPod, iTunes, MP3 players, synchronisation, USB memory device Leave a comment »I remember when I got my very first iPod for my birthday, about five years ago. It was pink and really small. I was so happy. Now it would be easy to take all my favourite music with me on my travels or out jogging. My happiness lasted until I downloaded iTunes onto my computer and tried to download music onto my iPod. I scratched my head and furrowed my brow. I couldn’t see the logic in this program, until I understood that it was all about “synchronisation”. I got so angry, why couldn’t Apple make the iPod work like a regular USB memory device, like other MP3 players? A lot of my friends thought that it did work like a USB device and saved their photos exclusively on their iPod, only to see them suddenly disappear at the next synchronisation, losing their photos forever. They learned the iTunes lesson the hard way.
iTunes has been around for more than ten years now, and it still works in more or less the same way. And now we also have iPhones and iPads, where iTunes also serves as the central tool in using them. Synchronisation is still the logic. Is this really the case in 2011? How can it be that people don’t protest more about this?
In October 2011 Apple released a new version of iTunes, iTunes 10.5. I waited hopefully for an improvement. Surely Apple had got it by now. Quite the opposite, now everything goes through the new iCloud service, which iTunes 10.5 supports. This provides the facility to define settings so that any apps, music or books you download are automatically copied to all your other iOs devices. It means that if you buy an MP3 track via your computer, the track can then be transferred automatically to your iPad or iPhone. Isn’t this once more about synchronisation, but simultaneously on several digital devices?
Below are some information pages and guides for those of you who still can’t do without iTunes.
Download iTunes 10.5 http://www.apple.com/se/itunes/
Read more about iCloudhttp://www.apple.com/se/icloud/
A guide that describes how to use iCloud.
Shouldn’t the age of iTunes have been over long ago? Or at least changed to be more like a USB device to benefit users? I look forward to hearing your comments and views on this.
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