Saturday, June 6, 2015

Apple and Google Controls How we use Mobile apps



Apple's iOS and Google's Android are two dominating Mobile OS platform. Almost 90% of the devices shipped in the world are either ios device or Android devices.  You can check the data for Smartphone OS Market Share in image below. This fact tell us how these two company - Apple and Google, are controlling the mobile world. Apple's App and Google's Play Store both are tons of Apps and we almost use many of them in our day to day life. These apps behavior and flow of data are controlled by these tech giant, hence forth Apple and Google Controls How we use Mobile apps through our smartphone and tablets.


There are so many applications on app store and Google play and we are in business of mobile application development, so we know how it works. We decided to give some insight about the process.

Apple and Google both have some way to publish the Personal or Business mobile apps on their respective stores. They do some checkup before publishing to the store. Apple's App store policy is more restrictive than Google's, but both these company control the digital goods. Sometime it happen to favor their own business they like to bump a good app. For reference here is an example - a company named Tawkon which created an app that tells you when your phone is emitting high radiation so users can stay safe. This useful app was rejected by Apple. This prove Apple (and google also) want which app we should and which we can't.

The dark side is that it's either Apple or Google will tell what to develop or they will reject our app submission. This is totally unfair. Profit and maiming them is the real aim for these company while taking choice out of user's hand.

Also Read check what new in Google Analytic ios App

Both the Apple and the Google application stores control the stream of data, flow of information. With each day passing, they are taking more grip on our data. While this reality may appear to be innocuous to numerous right now, in a couple of years time this could turn into a genuine danger over our freedom of speech and our freedom to create, innovate.

Talking about Google alone, which control the whole internet with it search. It is hard to get off your hand with Google search, like it or not you have to use it. Many of the Google products like Gmail, YouTube, Blogger, Google Plus, Google Drive , Google Map, Analytics, Adwords etc, we use either for personal use or for business, thus Google have access amount of our data with them. They control the search hence we have to adopt to them to rank higher and get our business.

Apple pay and Android Pay


Apple and Google both have announced the new payment platform for their respective OS. Now they have new tool to control How we use Mobile apps . They will know what we are buying, whom we are paying and sell the business to us.

Are you in favor of open App store?


Apple control the app store for ios device and allows only those they want to be. Same is true with the Google Play store. Why can't we have a open App store like the web, where we have no filter - we can access whatever we want unlike on app store. Apple and Google Controls How we use Mobile apps, this control must end and user should have the choice what to choice and not Apple and Google decide. 

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