The operating system from Google is growing their market share, with the Android-based smartphones are now acquiring a total of the 25% of U.S. mobile internet traffic, well ahead of the BlackBerry traffic.

Apple is still the dominant player with the iOS accounting for around 56% of U.S. web traffic. However it’s a loss of 12% of the total market share for Apple who used to attarct 68% of the U.S. mobile internet traffic 1 year back in September, 2009. At the same time Android has shown a fantastic growth in their market share. Android has registered a growth of more than 300% from its market share of 8% in September, 2009 when they used to enjoy only 8% of the U.S. mobile web traffic.

Research In Motion’s share of the Smartphone market in U.S. has remained relatively flat at a 9%, as BlackBerry devices have continued to dominate the enterprise market. However BlackBerry has failed to catch on the greater population of the Smartphone users.

The users have already been flooded with the spams offering some free iPhone or online survey scams. However Ping is a social network introduced by Apple in iTunes where you can build up your network to share musical tracks, discuss and comment on the tracks shared among the network. You can also suggest the tunes to your friends.

Ping has been reported to be well accepted by the users in iTunes immediately and spammers has not wasted time to take the full advantage.

Survey scams are already endemic on Facebook over the last few months. The absence of filtering on Ping has given the spammers a new & friendly platform. Sophos, a net security firm, has warned of a potential net security risk which may be resulted due to this lack of monitoring in Ping.

Chester Wisniewski of Sophos has written, “Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms.” “But apparently Apple didn’t consider this when designing Ping, as the service implements no spam or URL filtering. It is no big shock that less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams,” he adds.

Apple has anticipated a certain level of mischief, which is reflected from the approval process of uploaded profile pictures. It filters inappropriate photos, but can’t stop the spamming. However the iPhone developers are hopeful to have a better and strict monitoring to stop malicious contents. Till then we can only suggest the users to be cautious in opening messages from unknown users, especially about the suspiciously generous deals & offers.

Some of the experts have reported that Apple and Verizon Wireless are struggling to launch the CDMA iPhone and the dream of the CDMA users to get an iPhone on Verizon carrier is not going to be fulfilled soon. Recently Shaw Wu, a noted analyst for Kaufman Bros, has said that, “Apple and Verizon Wireless are still doing their best efforts for the users.”
James Kendrick from JKOnTheRun reported earlier that Sprint dropped their plans to sell Google’s Nexus One. He has also estimated iPhone to gain much popularity this year. Many of the analysts have raised questions about the chances of T-Mobile to become an alternative.

With the continuous network problem of AT&T, CDMA iPhone seems to be the most unavoidable conclusion, and if Verizon is dropped, Sprint would be the best choice for it. However T-Mobile is always the logical alternative as it uses the same GSM network like AT&T.

Wu thinks that the cost of iPhone for AT&T is more when compared to the Android and BlackBerry phones on Verizon carrier. He has also added that, Apple urges Verizon to offer a similar price. However analysts are not sure of the possibility of it as they need time to get a similar popularity and success with iPhone like Android handsets from Motorola and HTC.

However iPhone is presently available in US with AT&T, which uses GSM technology. In spite of a huge success with AT&T, Apple is continuously receiving complaints about the network. Probably that has prompted Apple to look for a new carrier partner and technology in terms of Verizon and CDMA respectively. However, iPhone app developers also think it is a move from Apple to reach more Smartphone users.

Now this advertisement from Qualcomm is enough for the iPhone app development industry to speculate more steadily that now iPhone 4 with CDMA is no longer a dream.

The job posted by Qualcomm, says that it is looking for an “iPhone Developer Guru” for a “secret” assignment.

The job description and skill set required is quite similar to that of the exclusive iPhone developer. This suggests that iPhone 4 users are more likely to get a CDMA connection soon.

Google has launched some new features, last week, for its iPhone users. They have added push notifications from the Google account to the iPhone.
The update will now display an icon badge when you get a new e-mail at your Gmail account. One more useful feature ha been added and that is a pop-up alert which will appear on the home screen of your iPhone to remind you about the appointments.

Google has also added some new features to provide the users with predictive results for certain topics. “When looking for flight info, weather, stock quotes, or currency conversion, you’ll see the answers before you even hit ‘search,” Google has mentioned in their official blog.

You can get this app from the Apple App Store, if you search for “Google Mobile App.”

More than a year back, Medialets, a market analytics firm focused in to the Smartphone industry, estimated that almost 20% of the apps available in the App Store are pirated. Most of these apps were actually the cracked versions of the paid apps.

The trend is continuing. Dissident, the starter of AppTrackr, the hacked app store has recently estimated that almost 4% of the total iOS devices already in use are using. Most of the Apple devices that use pirated apps are to be the iPhones. Correspondent of the App Advice has recently found out the fact in a chat with them.

It has revealed that Installous, the application which is used to download the cracked or hacked applications, is being used by almost 4 million iPhone users.

The iPhone app developers believes that app piracy is mainly the result of the high cost of the apps. And in most of the cases the users don’t have any option to use a trial version. However Apple is trying a lot to stop the piracy. Recently they have launched a separate section for the free, low end versions of the highly paid apps. But guess that could not stop the piracy yet.

The report has also cited a growth in sales of PCs during this period and it counts 15.7%. That’s definitely a good news for all the PC makers, like Dell, HP and Apple too.

Charlie Wolf, the analyst at Needham & Company, has given the credit to iPhone & iPodfor this growth in Mac sales. He has written in a note to the investors on Monday, “[T]he key driver of this growth has been the halo effect emanating first from the iPod and then the iPhone.”

Obviously the iPhone has introduced Apple’s devices to a lot of new users. The demand for iOS apps are ever increasing and also attarcting a lot of attention and business in the iPhone application development industry. The Mac users are increasing with the increasing number of iPhone app developers, as for iPhone app development you need a Machintosh computer. In addition more Windows users have been turned to Mac users for enterprises purposes in recent times, the report has analyzed.

In the first quarter ended in June, Apple has sold nearly 3.5 million Macs, Wolf has mentioned. That’s actually more than the Apple sold in all of the fiscal 2003, Wolf has added. “The installed base of Windows switchers is now larger than the original installed base of Mac users,” he added.

Though it’s too early to take it as a new trend in enterprise sales, but Apple, mostly favorite at homes and schools, now has definitely got a jump start into the industries. However Dell and HP always share a strong enterprise base, and can grow their businesses. But definitely this is a new room for Apple to grow.

The company has released some updates for the model recently. But those patches have disappointed the users and the iPhone developers as they have been proved inefficient to fix the problems. The users have experienced a slow & limited performance of the iPhone 3G after installing the crippled version of the operating system on their devices.
Steve Jobs has admitted the complaints about the performance of iPhone 3G with iOS 4 and has announced that an update is coming soon, in response to an user’s E-mail.

We Like : The superlative multi-touch interface and the huge variety of apps
Don’t Like : The lack of a Flash, a smaller screen
Our stand : The iPhone 3GS’s killer operating system, the multi-touch interface and a superior app selection have made it still desirable among the users and iPhone developers.