“Apple’s first pair of applications for Android, Apple Music and Move to iOS, may be the start of Apple opening up even further to Google’s mobile platform,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“According to a new job listing on Apple’s website, the Cupertino-based company is ‘looking for engineers to help [Apple] bring exciting new mobile products to the Android platform,'” Gurman reports. “The presence of the word ‘new’ seems to indicate that Apple’s plans go beyond the already announced Apple Music and Move to iOS apps.”
“Perhaps Apple is considering bringing over its popular iMessage platform over to Android. Apple could also be planning an iTunes Store app for Android to accompany Apple Music,” Gurman reports. “Lastly, with Safari as one of the first Windows apps by Apple, perhaps the iPhone maker is eyeing opening up its web browser to other mobile devices.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Messages (iMessage) would make sense and it would also help out iOS users who are trying to communicate with the great unwashed who’ve shackled themselves with fragmandroid and have yet to upgrade to real iPhones and iPads.
We despise green bubbles and pity the lowly plebes who spawn them!
I pity the fool – Mr. T
Facetime for Android, please!
Facepalm for Android? Gladly.
Great, now they can half-ass it for Android too. C’mon Apple, fix our stuff before you get involved in this kind of shit.
Totally agree. The PC wars are over Apple.
Making OS X more familiar for Window users to convert will not happen again with cellphones. Its a totally different world Apple.
P L E A S E D O N ‘ T
The best of iPhone Apps should not flee to the dark side.
Apple would only be making Droid better… these folks on Droid, do not wish to pay for anything.
Apple can put its people to many other projects rather than make Android apps. Like fix the software it has.
A “Sync to iOS” may be more popular with those that want to own devices of both OSes.. 😛
I prefer Apple focus on OS X and iOS 9. Apple has no interest in making competitors’ products better anyhow.
Messages makes no sense for Android. It benefits Apple in no way at all. It makes the most sense to develop an iTunes app to sell Android users movies, TV Shows, and iBooks.
It will benefit Apple users who want to drop their texting plan from their carriers.
Where I am, they’re practically throwing nationwide calling, unlimited texting and unlimited MMS away for almost nothing. The goldmine these days is data and they know it.
I wish Apple would hire more engineers to fix the mess that is Apple Music.
The Sculley part 2. This is just plain asinine. Oracle is the only company that is on the side of Apple by being a thorn on stolen Java aka android.
They are going to give legitimacy to the folks who stabbed Jobs in the back. Hell, WS has found a way to continue spitting on Steve Jobs.
You sir have hit the nail on the head with the last statement.
Wall Street could not stand Steve because he would not give them the time of the day.
So someone over there has not gotten over it and is still trying to dismantle Apple.
There are enemies within Apple.
Fire them and make sure Apple stays on track.
Too many people are being hired without the S.J. vision.
And Cook is all driving this. Its tearing Apple apart. Start thinking again what Steve would have done and NOT the other way. Its harming Apple.
Just say “NO”!
You know Google is now hard at work on their new IOS app, “Move to Android”
Maybe, or it’s Apple’s response to the iOS to Android move article back in June… http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-switch-from-iphone-to-android/
It would seem that Cook can’t do anything without Google doing it first!
You forgot the ‘/s’ for ‘sarcasm’.
Apple TV would be a perfect cross platform app. Everywhere I go people are ditching cable and using chomecast, so getting customers on Apple TV instead of serving Google their customers on a silver platter sounds like good business. Instead giving up those millions of customers, offer the opportunity of growing the Apple platform. Sounds like a most lucid business strategy.
WhatWhatWhat?! Did someone say ‘Android’?
This lovely article is out today over at Ars Technica:
Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon
Editorial: Android’s update strategy doesn’t scale, and that’s recipe for disaster.
The Android ecosystem’s reaction to the “Stagefright” vulnerability is an example of how terrible things are. An estimated 95 percent of Android devices could fall victim to a remote arbitrary code execution just by receiving malicious video MMS. That’s really scary, and as you might expect, Google, Samsung, and LG have all pledged to “Take Security Seriously” and issue a fix as soon as possible.
Their “fix” is to patch 2.6 percent of all active Android devices. Tops. That’s the percentage of Android devices that are running Android 5.1 today, nearly five months after the OS was released.
And 2.6 percent is a generous estimation for the top-end of “currently supported” Android devices in the wild. In reality, the number of devices getting a Stagefright patch will almost certainly be much lower. . . .
At some point, a huge Blaster worm-style Android security armageddon seems inevitable—and that’s what it’s going to take to bring real, meaningful change. Stagefright is a big deal, and the Android ecosystem’s reaction to it is literally 2.6/100ths of what it needs to be. . . .
There’s too much disregard for the customer in the Android ecosystem to expect any of this get fixed proactively. Carriers and OEMs don’t want to be relegated to the user space, and right now there are no repercussions for their self-centered actions. But consequences are coming. When the big Android malwarepocalypse does arrive, users won’t care about the “two-year flagship” limit on patches if their phones stop working or their data gets stolen.
The Android update machine is broken, and in order to rebuild it in a way that works, we need to burn it down. Anyone have a match? 💣🔥💥
Every time I read the effect of fragmentation on Android security, the number of patchable devices DROPS. Now we’re down to only 2.6%, or less, of Android devices being patched or patchable.
–> No, I’m NOT going to warn my Android device using friends. I do NOT want them coming to me asking for tech support after their devices have been crashed or pwned. Call someone else please.