With the wide scale popularity and use of iPhone, the demand and creation of apps for it has also gone up. Ease of app development because of the availability of so many tools and a vibrant developer community plus the demand for good apps is what makes application development of iPhone apps such a hot skill these days. There are so many companies which are exclusively into building apps for iPhones. Since the use of iPhone is not restricted to any particular user base – how innovatively one can use app for ensuring one’s business success is just limited by ideas. The uses to which iPhone apps can be put to are infinite. Medical or healthcare companies develop or use apps for health/hospital or doctor related work, product companies use apps for marketing of their products, gaming companies build app games for iPhones which are a craze in the market and apps for social networking site etc are also quite popular.
iPhone app development in India has also developed into a big niche area in itself. There are quite a large number of big, medium and small companies catering to this technology area. The iPhone app developers community is also quite large, which enables collaboration and development of skills. Mostly the app development in India is related to gaming and entertainment industry. Marketing companies also are using apps for product promotional activities. One area where it is still in nascent stage is healthcare and medical related app development. May be because iPhone users in India are mostly teenagers and young professionals the demand is more for interesting, entertaining type apps. Of course there are users who are using healthcare related apps but that number is not so significant in comparison to the other areas.
If we do a profiling of the companies in India who are into iPhone apps development we would find that mostly it would comprise of companies which are small to medium in size. There a quite a few companies who are exclusively into iPhone app development, which makes sense since the users of iPhone is only set to increase with time. Once a substantial number of people start using iPhones, demand for apps would increase a lot and the early players would benefit by leveraging their skills and expertise in this area. With time developers get exposure to varied types of apps and when the market is ripe these products can enter into Indian market in a big way. iPhone apps demand worldwide is also quite high so this is the right time to set up dedicated teams for app development. With time when Indian market matures, vis-à-vis iPhone usage, not only can the apps developed be reused but also need specific apps be developed which people would have a need for.
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Mobile development is rapidly growing. Increasingly, small businesses are moving away from desktops and laptops toward smartphones and tablets. It has catered various kinds of business needs. According to a study, small businesses that use mobile apps to manage their operations save more than 370 million business hours and more than 725 million employee hours annually. The norms of internet users has switched to use mobile to access internet rather than computer. Nowadays, there are over thousands of mobile app resources available on the internet. This article gives some valuable information on greatest mobile development resources for mobile app developers. The resources include mobile frameworks, plugins, tools and user interface patterns.
The AppBuilder: is a service that offers application templates that help small businesses create native applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. It enables businesses, organisations and individuals to rapidly and easily create mobile apps, at no cost and without needing to know a single line of code. It was launched in March 2012, and thereafter over 40,000 apps have been created by customers from across the globe. TheAppBuilder is constantly pushing the boundaries of self-service app creation with the addition of new features each week to enable customers to create brilliant apps, completely free of charge. Standard tabs include integration code for YouTube and RSS feeds.
AppExpress: this platform supports the development of applications for appointment scheduling, handling invoicing and accepting payments, messaging and marketing with coupons for small and midsize businesses. The service allows for creation of apps that work on either iOS or Android. It also includes an option for creating a one-page mobile-optimized Web site.
MobileAppLoader - This platform offers templates for all sorts of small businesses to use in their mobile app development -- that includes everyone car, dealerships to contractors to automotive services companies to hair salons. An innovative marketplace for businesses to build their customized Mobile Apps (iPhone, iPad, Android). Business choose the App design according to their application categories list and upload their customized content.
WPtouch is a simple and powerful plugin which allows you to produce elegant mobile theme for your website. It can automatically transform your WordPress blog into an iPhone application styled theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.
MobileAppTracking is a tool that allows you to track your app anywhere at anytime. You just need to connect the mobile web to mobile apps. It utilizes a unique device fingerprint to correlate ads that are clicked on the mobile web to app installs generated by users, giving you transparency into the performance of advertising on the mobile web.
Understanding the value of users coming from other mobile apps is key to any cross promotion or direct publisher relationships. By simply placing a tracking link in the advertise, you can track which installs come from your own cross-promotion or for any other campaigns that come from other mobile apps.
Mindfire Solutions, thirteen year old offshore software company plays a vital role to cater the business needs for all kinds of SMB's. Our rich cross-platform mobile app development experience, flexible business model, and fine-tuned processes can translate to high quality, faster time-to-market, and less cost -- i.e. happy customers and increased revenue -- for your business. Mindfire has added value to more than 200 clients in US, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia in the 12 years of its operations. The company has over 650 people, spread across 3 Advanced Development Centers (ADCs) in India which are equipped with ultra-modern facilities and where Mind#reans strive round the clock to delight the customer.
While selecting mobile computers and rugged handheld devices, it is equally important to have the right software applications installed to serve your business requirements as it is to have good quality and dependable hardware. Focusing entirely on acquiring devices with powerful processing capability alone is only one part of the job. As an organization, your foray into this area will provide a good return on investment and a low total cost of ownership (TCO) if you are successful in identifying the right IT vendor for all your software needs. Enterprise handheld applications are in reality an expansion of the functionalities provided on desktops. This enables desktop and handheld application to converse and transmit data with each other.
We have the capability to provide enterprise mobile handheld solutions across multiple mobile platforms to streamline your business processes. Our enterprise mobile and handheld solutions can be easily integrated with your ERP applications. Our experience with handheld devices started with Palm. These devices are easy to use and include many applications to help organize work schedules and tasks. Different Palm models have different operating systems and functions and most models can synchronize with PC and Mac. All contain programs for managing your calendar, notes, tasks, and contacts. For more details on our expertise you can click on Palm Expertise. With Windows Mobile Handheld, we have a dedicated team of certified developers with cross industry experience. Their advantage of using devices on Windows Mobile OS is the ease and convenience of having Microsoft Office and other Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Internet Explorer Windows Live etc. at your disposal. Windows Mobile devices can be broadly classified into two categories: the Pocket PC and Smartphone. Pocket PC phones come with a stylus that one can use to touch the screen. Smartphones on the contrary do not have a touchscreen or stylus but can securely connect to POP3 and IMAP accounts, as well as Internet-based e-mails such as Yahoo, and Google.
If you are looking for a reliable offshore vendor for your Windows Mobile Handheld needs, Mindfire Solutions has the required expertise to meet them. With our experienced team of Windows Mobile developers, we have successfully partnered with a number of companies across various industries. Our team of experts is competent to handle Full lifecycle Windows Mobile /CE development. They can help in designing the System architecture to suit your existing wok flows. Our apps are designed keeping in mind the exact workflows of our clients to help them get the maximum leverage out of them. We assure quality through the consistent application of uniform processes in our services.
Mindfire Solutions is the right destination for you to hire dedicated offshore Windows Mobile programmers/Developers. Our Windows phone app development team has an average experience of 5 + years. In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial*.
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The
popularity of mobile applications has continued to rise, as their
usage has become increasingly prevalent across mobile phone
users.
Deals and Directions = For a successful business to run
we need to make sure direction feature is right so that they can get
to your location no matter where they are with One touch call and
share it with friends easy way to connect to people.
We need
to create an app that it somehow solves a problem and serves a niche.
People like to use apps that serve a purpose whether it's information
driven, makes them laugh, helps with productivity, etc. When creating
an app, think about what you would want out of the app if you were
the customer.
Mobile payments are going to be huge and you
have the opportunity to let customers pay with their smart phones
before your competitors do. Instead of paying with cash, check, or
credit cards, a consumer can use a mobile phone to pay for a wide
range of services and digital or hard goods. Google, PayPal use a
cloud-based approach to in-store mobile payment. The cloud based
approach places the mobile payment provider in the middle of the
transaction, which involves two separate steps.
Social media
engagement where real-time interaction is built into the app. One can
deliver a great customer experience by listening to and engaging with
your customers where they like to hangout. Find the most critical
messages, and use enterprise data to glean customer insight. Then
collaborate within your team or across the organization to resolve
issues efficiently and effectively.
Rather, give your
customers some kind of magical power to interact with your business
with only a few taps. Any app should be simple to use, should be
intuitive to any user and if possible, let them share their
experience with friends. One-click purchasing, send to a friend and
push notifications for new updates are key features for any good
retail app.
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Mindfire programmers and user interface experts
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The
most obvious signs of the blurring of the boundaries of personal and
professional life can be noticed in the manner in which the concept
of Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD ) is getting accepted spreading thick
and fast. No more are people required to work from their office
premises always; irrespective of the nature of the job. Given the
24x7 accessibility, the whole concept of office hours seems to be a
thing of the past. It has become quite normal for people to work for
extended hours at the convenience of choosing their place of
operation. Equipped with Laptops, Smartphones, Tablets & the more
recent Phablets, accessing enterprise network is just about possible
from anywhere and at any time of the day. Infact with every passing
the day, these tools are only getting better. BYOD has brought in a
considerable amount of increase in the productivity of the workforce.
They have been empowered to deliver work from anywhere , anytime &
most importantly from the device of their choice. This has led to a
lot of companies promoting the concept of having a workforce on the
move. Besides the degree of convenience and flexibility which it has
brought in, the companies have also gained in terms of reduced costs
in having to maintain/build/ rent real estate. The main concern, from
an organization’s perspective, is in ensuring safe integration of
these devices & have policies in place so as to reduce chances of
valuable data getting compromised in any capacity. Setting the right
BYOD approach and the policy is the key to maintain data security,
control costs & minimize risk.
Apple’s iOS platform
seems to be the hot favorite when it comes to popularity of devices
being preferred by professionals. For one, it is more secure than its
nearest competitor – Android . From its App store to the regular
security updates, the devices have almost earned the title of being
the most reliable and impregnable & hence an ideal fit for
enterprise deployment. To elaborate a bit more on this, there are
many security features which are available by default for e.g. all
the 3rd party apps are sandboxed to ensure that they cannot access
files stored by other apps or modify them in any capacity . This is
generally the case in the event of a malware or a virus attack. Also,
each of the apps available in the store is reviewed to check whether
it works as it is advertised and has no malicious code in it. The
data protection provision helps in ensuring that even in the event of
a device getting compromised, the data stays encrypted. This has been
made possible because of steps taken by Apple to not only encrypt
data during transmission but also implement hardware level encryption
of data stored in the deice. Each of the app has its executable code
signed in order to be sure about the source with the built-in ones
signed by Apple. Companies interested in building customized iPhone
apps have to join the iOS Developer Enterprise Program which gives
them the provision to run their apps on the devices they authorize.
To buy more confidence from the organizations, Apple has made it
possible to allow IT departments , through Mobile Device Management
provision, to update settings of their enrolled devices as per their
requirements & to remotely wipe of lock them if need
be.
Inclination by corporates towards iOS devices getting used
by their employees provides a lot of opportunity for the developer
community. The demand of enterprise apps has been on the rise. This
also offers an excellent opportunity for people with brilliant app
ideas. This is where Mindfire Solutions , with its team of dedicated
& certified iPad /iPhone
apps developers,
can provide an excellent opportunity for partnership. Tell us your
iOS app development needs and be certain of getting your deliverable
on time & within budget . Our iOS Application Development team
has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed
70+ iOS projects till date .In addition to this our customers also
get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To
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Going
by some of the recent reports, Apple is believed to have cut down on
its iPhone 5 component orders. Is it some sort of an indication that
the demand has not as strong as was expected? Well one way to look at
it could be that it is correction to the orders placed earlier which
were made keeping in mind the holiday season and the likely increase
in demand generally noticed during this phase. At the same time,
there is no denying the fact that Apple has started feeling the
pressure - in the tablet market from Android tablets which are much
lower priced and in the smartphone market where it has lost the crown
to the Galaxy S lineup of smartphones from Samsung. In its report,
Samsung said that the global sales of its flagship Galaxy S
smartphones had topped 100 million since the first model was launched
in May 2010. The Galaxy S3, launched last May, sold more than 40
million in seven months.
Predictions of analysts project
Samsung increasing its sales by a third this year and reach a number
of 290 million. They also feel that it is time for the company to
decide whether to keep catering to the high end of the phone market
by reaping higher profits from relatively few sales, or to offer
something which is cheaper and stands a chance when competing with
other lower-cost alternatives especially the ones from Samsung.
Having noted all these points , it is going to be interesting to know
the exact figures when the quarter results are out. So the
shareholders, in an ideal sense, should not get carried away by the
news of a reduction in the ordering of the screens by roughly half.
The last quarter sales included only nine days of the iPhone 5 launch
and the actual sales number coming from the quarter ending December
should provide a better indication of the actual results.
From
the developers’ perspective, iOS still is the preferred platform.
With its attractive features . Apple provides a very stable,
exclusive platform for app developers, clearly specifying tools,
defining both their potential and boundaries. This makes it much
easier for the iOS developers to proceed with the task which they
have at hand. The OS uses Apple’s Objective-C language, which can
be used by app developers who are already familiar with C and C++.
The popularity of iOS automatically means a lot of opportunity of the
developers to earn good money. Paid apps seems to be the obvious
option but interestingly free apps also put forth a similar
opportunities. One can, for example market advertisements space
within your apps to companies and make money every time there is a
click on them. Another way is to generate income by means of free
apps is by only offering trial versions and giving individuals enough
to play with to be wanting more, but not too much to get them to play
the demo consistently. The last way is to create a very addictive app
and wait for the time when its usage has peaked and follow it with
another one.
To get started, if you have a good app idea,
looking for a reliable offshore iPhone
app developmentIndia
company is the key. Mindfire Solutions has been the preferred
destination to hire services of dedicated iPhone/iPad app developers
. Our iOS Application Development team has an average experience of
4+ years and has successfully executed 70+ iOS projects till date .In
addition to this our customers also get the benefit of flexible hours
of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand
and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for
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As
a small-business owner, if you decide to make your application go
mobile, there are several ways to develop your own mobile app. There
are a number of tools designed to help you create mobile apps for iOS
or Android. Appcelerator, MotherApp, PhoneGap, RunRev, AppMakr,
Genwi, SassMob, MobBase and many more.
Rhomobile offers an
open-source Ruby-based mobile development framework for business
mobility solutions. It enables software programmers to build
applications for mobile devices using HTML instead of proprietary
languages such as Objective-C. This framework supports development
for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Symbian and
BlackBerry operating systems.
Appcelerator powers 1,000 native
apps every month:The Titanium Development Platform from Appcelerator,
which incidentally has a formidable fan following in Twitter, aids
the development of native mobile, tablet and desktop apps via web
programming languages such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.
The best thing about Titanium is that if gives users easy access to
over 300 APIs and location information. It offers customizable
metrics for actions and events. Apps can be totally hardware-based
and all app data can be stored either in the cloud or on the
device.Mobile
app development service
build with HTML5 and JavaScript, delivers cross-platform apps that
access native APIs and are distributed through the Apple and Android
app stores without having to learn platform-specific languages. Use
of familiar web tools like your favorite code editor, Javascript
libraries and workflow to build real mobile apps. We can connect to
existing content services and repositories using RSS, JSON, or XML,
then built-in content optimization, image transcoding and intelligent
caching which delivers a greater user experience.
WidgetPad
is a collaborative, open-source environment for development of
smartphone apps. This program uses standard web technologies, such as
JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.
Included in this platform are
source code editing, collaboration, debugging, project management,
versioning and distribution.
MobileDevHQ helps to track
rankings and competition and optimize keywords for search.Business
users can have a better idea of where their app is going and who all
are interested to visit their pages.
Beta bait: This site is a
social network specifically for developers and startups to find the
right person to try out their product.
It gives easy
self-service tools which tracks analytics, manages push notification
campaigns and updates content flows.
The combined power of
these tools will make small business owner create Mobile apps at
ease. It brings with it a host of new features and services that make
it one of the richest mobile platforms in the market. Mindfire
Solutions empowers developers to build better apps faster. Creating
an awesome mobile app is no easy task. And building a suitable server
backend can make it twice as hard. Mindfire Solutions makes your life
easier. Offload those intensive backend services to focus on the
parts that mean the most to you - your app and your users. Mindfire
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The
share of Windows Phone 8 is about 2% compared to Android which is the
leader at 52% market share followed by iOS at 35% . New languages are
getting added to Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft at a brisk pace. The
number of supported languages stands at 50 now. The virtual keyboard
is also localized for all 50 WP8 languages. The variants depend on
the territory. For e.g., the English keyboard is different if you use
the US version compared to the UK keyboard. Unlike WP7 which supports
6, WP8 now supports 15 languages for its voice recognition feature.
With simple languages, for the phone to display interfaces and menus,
adding is quiet straightforward. However, for the complex language
the effort lies in achieving a quality translation. Some even require
engineering work to be done in the operating system itself. The most
challenging languages to handle are the ones which flow from right to
left & to handle it in an appropriate manner, the engineers have
used an approach which they have termed as mirroring.
While
issues like lack of apps, disappointing multi-tasking and poor
notification system kept Windows Phone from reaching feature parity
with iOS and Android, the first of the reasons seems to be a bane for
Windows Phone 8 .Microsoft has invested untold millions into their PR
push for WP8. Needless to say people, even if they have not purchased
one yet, easily recognize these devices & are aware and consider
it to be a third alternative beyond iOS & android. Realizing the
fact that there needs to be some effort put in to increase the number
of apps made available to the users, Microsoft has its full staff
on-hand throughout the holiday period so that developers can keep
submitting their apps. This has been done to maintain the
certification processing turnaround times. They have announced that
since its launch, in late Oct 2012, there has been a steady 40%
increase in app submission.
There are several features which
Microsoft has added which has helped in the traction it has started
gaining with WP 8 . Sharing the core components across Windows 8,
Windows RT, and WP 8 has resulted in giving users a consistent
experience & allowed developers to write code once & use it
on multiple platforms. This also enables hardware manufactures get
products to the market much faster. The Windows
phone app development
kit has brought in a lot of developer interest in the platform. The
user interface design also seems excellent. The use of tiles, clean
fonts, the extensive choice of colors & the prerogative it offers
the users to make the home page tailored to one’s own requirement
seems to have created quite a positive impact in the minds of people.
Microsoft understands it quite well that to become a strong contender
& to be looked upon as a valid alternative for the users, the app
numbers have to go up. In order to encourage more developer
participation, the rewards being offered are better than the
competitors.
If you have the idea of a brilliant app or are
looking for a reliable offshore partner for your Windows Phone 8
development services, we are ideally suited, given our exposure and
expertise, to meet your requirements. To
know more about our expertise in Custom Windows
Phone Programmer
team & hire windows
phone developer,
please contact us at sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call
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Although
Google's Android and Apple's iPhone devices currently dominate the
smartphone market, there is strong optimism, if one were to go by
Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft statements, about Windows Phone growing
fast to become a strong third participant. In order to get the
volumes to grow fast tie-ups have been made with Nokia, Samsung, HTC
and many others. Microsoft is expected to, going by the reports, to
invest more in marketing and advertising around Windows 8 than it has
ever historically done for any of its products before. This is
primarily because it wants to unify Windows Phone devices, PCs,
Windows 8 tablets and its Xbox game console. The biggest benefit of
such an ecosystem is the consistency that it brings; avoiding in the
process the need to relearn how to navigate. This is precisely the
reason why one notices the modern visual style i.e. Metro featuring
tiles across all its products. The tiles allow the users to get a
glimpse of mails, weather forecasts, photos, media items, web pages
and other information. The apps need not be opened for the same.
Tiles can be "live," which means they flip around
automatically to show new information. Also, the users can decide
which ones are to be updated with live information. Another
interesting concept is that of “Hubs” i.e. places where content,
apps, and social networking, all come together. A Photo Hub for
instance would enable one to see one’s own and friends’ galleries
and have access to some photo-editing apps. Thus WP8 comes across as
a very good option to be used as a smartphone for a lot of calling,
texting, and social networking. Besides, the start screen feature
makes it more customizable that any other android or iOS
handset.
Part of the reason given for Windows Phone 7 not
providing the results as was expected or not standing in comparison
to iOS and Android because of the hardware which it was running on.
However the problem seems to be addressed with Windows Phone 8.
Underneath the familiar interface of the earlier version, WP8 runs on
the same kernel as Windows 8, including the NTFS file system. The
hardware is at par with iOS and Android devices in terms of screen
resolutions, computing power, cameras and the ability to take
advantage of advanced network bandwidth known as LTE. The biggest
change to Windows
Phone 8 development India
is the new kernel, which allows Windows Phones to have dual-core
processors. On the development side, rather than having to use
Silverlight or XNA, third-party developers can write native code. All
the WP7 apps is still compatible but the overall offering has much
more potential and powerful because it offers more ways of develop
apps. The problem though however is that MS did not release the SDK
to the developers beforehand. However, Cross-platform development
frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile
are all compatible with Windows Phone 8 with users of Sencha Touch in
particular being bullish about Microsoft's new OS.
Windows
Phone 8 surely would fall into category of OS which is very high on
aesthetics based on the range of interesting features which it
offers. Ultimately, to stand in competition against Android and iOS,
it will need apps. But there is no doubt about the fact that it
offers a good third alternative to consumers and is a big step in
the right direction. Mindfire
Solutions has years of experience of having executed numerous
projects on Windows Mobile Operating system and on devices ranging
from Pocket PCs to Smartphones. Our expertise goes from mobile apps
development from Windows CE operating system to Windows Mobile 5.0 to
Windows Phone 7.0. Given our background and expertise we can be oyur
reliable development partner for WP8 Development. To know more about
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phone 8 developers
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Phone app development
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According
to Microsoft Technologies, 2012 has proven to be a very good year for
Windows Phone and its developers. During this period, over 75,000 new
apps were published in the store and more than 300,000 app updates
got submitted across the year. This results make it about 54 apps, on
an average, getting downloaded on every phone. On of the primary
factors to have worked is the expansion of the payment options for
users. Working hard at implementing alternative payment methods such
as Paypal, Alipay and carrier billing seems to have done the trick.
This has resulted in developer revenue increasing by 40% since the
launch of their Windows Phone 8 SDK. There has also been a phenomenal
95% increase in the number of potential customers with the launch of
Windows Phone 8 across 191 markets ; this was earlier restricted to
only 35. Out of the total of 150,000 apps now, the Windows Phone
Store published about half i.e. 75,000 apps in the last one year.
Although it is still far away from Apple’s whopping 740,000 apps ,
it is the rate at which apps have got published which should be
encouraging . Also, in the process it has overtaken Blackberry by a
good margin already. ( Blackberry’s App World has some 90,000 apps
).MS has also made it possible this year to share their concerns
about an app or a game. With Bing powering the searches & with
the addition of Smart lists, it has become much easier to locate a
relevant app. Further enhancements have also been made like the new
collections and recommendations for WP8 customers.
In the
first 30 days of the SDK release, there has already been a 40 percent
increase in month-over-month developer. Microsoft has scaled up its
resources to handle a large influx of developer submissions. Efforts
also are being put for die hard WP 7 users. They are supposed to
receive the WP 7.8 update with a new start screen & some 10 new
themes in addition to many new apps. Inspite of all the efforts,
industry analysts have shared what they feel is a major concern.
According to them, Microsoft has yet not promised its users the
availability of the latest and the greatest apps with the best
features first. Irrespective of the number of apps available in the
store if the commonly used ones are missing, then it will become
increasingly difficult to consider WP8 smartphones as an alternative
to IPhone and other Android counterparts. The current Windows Phone
Marketplace has no Pandora, No Instagram, a Facebook app which does
not have the latest features and a Twitter app which has not been
updated for a long time. Besides all this, the preferred choice to
launch new apps is on iPhone first followed by Android. So in
addition to having to clear the backlog , & do it really fast,
they also will have to draw the attention of the Windows
Phone 8 Developers
as an alternative platform to launch their new apps.
Many
analysts feel that there has never been a better time for Windows
Phone or its developers since there is so much at hand which needs to
be done. Microsoft is also doing its bit to woo them. If you sense
this as an opportunity and have some brilliant app ideas in mind, we
can be your preferred partner to develop them. Mindfire Solutions has
years of experience of having executed numerous projects on Windows
Mobile Operating system and on devices ranging from Pocket PCs to
Smartphones. Our expertise goes from mobile apps development from
Windows CE operating system to Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Phone
7.0. Given our background and expertise we can be oyur reliable
development partner for WP8 Development.
