Are you looking for discounts on plane tickets? Well, there is an application for that. Are you eager to attend the next big party happening around the city? Turns out, there is an application to find that too. Also, if you happen to lose your TV Remote around the house, there is an application to summon a person from the nearby service provider who helps you find it. Clearly, if people are looking for professionals to help them find TV Remotes through applications, Android App Development and iPhone App Development has indeed come a long way. What are the factors that have contributed to the unprecedented growth of Application Development for Androids and iPhones? As we look back, there is no clear answer for that, and in the scheme of things, one thing to led to another. However, none of it would have been possible if people didn’t have an access to Smartphones, and Apple had a huge role to play in it.
When Apple came out with its first iPhone back in 2010, not many people could afford it. The people in the Developing Economies of India and China had no way to access the technology that was being sold at an expensive price. The conventional handsets were doing well until then, with Blackberry and Nokia flooding the market with new devices each season. Android was gaining ground as an Operating System, but was farthest from where it is today. The concept of owning a Smartphone wasn’t prevalent and what made any device exceptional was the camera and memory. The software aspect was more or less ignored. However, this is where Apple came in. With the launch of its first iPhone, Apple opened up an avenue that went beyond the hardware, and for the first time, people were interested to know what a mobile operating system could achieve. This is where the idea of excessive Application development was first born.
Back then, not everyone could afford an Apple. Turns out, the story remained the same for the next few years, and is more or less the same today. While Apple’s reluctance to launch a product that is cost-effective cannot be explained, it did offer other companies opportunities to do more now that they knew the technology that was in play. Before we knew, Chinese products entered the market. Samsung (from South Korea) came out with its own devices that ranged from cost-effective to mildly expensive. Someone had found a way to disrupt Apple’s solitary walk on the road to innovation. This surge of products from Samsung and its contemporaries led to the enhancement of Android, and slowly, iOS was looking at a rival in Android, and that to a formidable one.
News Magazines, TV Channels, Social Networks, and other conventional sources of desktop entertainment and education turned to mobile websites before launching their own mobile applications for Android, iOS, Windows, and Blackberry. Eventually, users had countless applications to choose from and Android and iOS App Development flourished. While Windows and Blackberry bowed out of the race, the remaining two kept on adding applications and soon, users discovered that they could do more with apps as it gave them instant access on-the-go. Social networks were gaining numbers and users wanted to do more with messengers that replaced the conventional SMS functions. The first phase of Mobile App Development was supplied by innovation in cost-effective hardware that allowed users across the globe to buy a Smartphone. As we look back now, years later, without cost-effective Smartphone devices, there would have been no revolution in Android and iPhone Development.
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