After five-plus years of smartphones saturating the market, it’s become clear that mobile device applications are an unqualified phenomenon, and a boon to application developers and app store vendors.
Apple recently reported that it is currently selling more than 1 billion mobile apps every month from the Apple Store; that’s an average rate of 23,148 apps per minute! The number of available apps is also increasing at an almost exponential rate. As the Apple marketing campaign goes, “there’s an app for that”, and not just on Apple’s app store: Google’s Andriod Marketplace, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile, RIM’s Blackberry App World, Symbian’s Horizon, and many others provide instant, downloadable applications and content that range from absolutely free, to thousands of dollars. Keep reading →
This article is adapted from a blog post on CIO.gov, the website of the U.S. chief information officer and the Federal CIO Councils. Nitin Pradhan is CIO of the Department of Transportation.
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