“The latest trends seem to indicate that Apple’s apps are beating Android’s,” James Lee Phillips reports for International Business Times. “Oddly enough, Google has released at least one iOS-exclusive app of their own: the Photovine photo-sharing app.”
“Whatever your feelings about the social game twist on what some may call ‘yet another’ photo-sharing app, the important point is that it’s not currently cross-platform,” Phillips reports. “Google’s Slide developers have offered it on their rival’s App Store, with an Android version (at this point, only presumably) following.”
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Phillips reports, “However, they’re not alone; Flurry, an analytics company, ran the numbers on 45,000 companies and 90,000 apps and came up with some telling results. Among other things, Flurry found that the number of Android projects has dropped, while the number of iOS projects has risen.”
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